Why must every bit of experimental or serious prose in this book be followed by some goofy, retarded drinking song or a passage about Slothrop doing something silly and dull?
I've gotta give Thommy Pinecone credit, though. Despite being periodically bored out of my fucking mind, about 400 pages in, I still won't stop reading because I'm curious what ridiculous or idiosyncratic shit might be in the next sudden passage, but it's still like I'm sifting through shit soup to get a few gold nuggets.Also, it has to say something about a work when the most viscerally exciting part, almost halfway in, is about literally eating shit.
>>7337675
A) so it's just 2deep4u schlock and B) because the subversion of low and high culture is a huge part of the book. What better way to do it than follow a passage on determinism with a dick joke?
>>7337710
*not
>>7337675
>Why
To bum out the squares
Because arguably it's a comedy.
Because then it would just be a borefest like Ulysses or any other serious book. GR is supposed to be mandatory funny, not something to ponder on and think about after each passage.
Shitty meme book
Does anyone genuinely find cold ironic polo humor funny?
Haha his penis predicts V2 strikes how bizarre and laugh out loud funny! This sure is literature!
>>7338091
Nice bait
>>7338091
>not having gotten past the first 50 pages
O /lit/ what to do w/you
>>7338091
Okay tell me, what are your favorite books?
>>7337710
>subversion of low and high culture
I really think this stuff is bogus. Pulling down the pants of the serious is just a flight away from it. Solemnity =/= seriousness
>>7338134
i read the whole book and afterward i had so little enjoyment of it it made me question whether i actually liked literature, and it threw me into a slump of thinking all books were as terrible as GR for a whole year: a year i'll never get back.
advice to anyone wanting to read Gravity's Rainbow: DON'T!
