Crying is the shorter and easier (in my opinion also better) book.

The only reason you'd read V first is because it is his first novel and you want to "see his genius unfold" through the rest of his books or some windbag shit like that.

>>7981993

>Starting with V.

V. is too disjointed and complicated for a new person to Pynchon, I recommend reading a lot of his other works before it though since you really need to be used to his style and comedy, Crying Lot is great, easier to comprehend and only really gets any flack because of how short it is. I enjoyed how ambient it was though.

>>7982006
you wouldn't recommend GR before V, would you?

I'd recommend starting with Crying and then if you enjoyed that read V., followed by Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon, and then whatever else by him you want to read

>>7981993
where is the 'none' option?

>>7982055
not voting

>>7982055
I thought of doing that but I didn't want this to become another dumb joke

>>7982059
pynchon is already a dumb joke

>>7982062
:^)

lets do it for other authors 2

http://www.strawpoll.me/10095493

http://www.strawpoll.me/10095508

>>7983709
what the fuck is the end of faith?

>>7983719
don't be silly

I recommend everybody to just go balls out and slug their way through Gravity's Rainbow first.

It's like a trial by fire sort of thing.

V is better than 49, but if you started with V youd probably not have a clue what on earth was happening so 49 is better to begin with

>>7983735
Counterpoint, the origin of Yoyodyne is in V. reoccurring characters is the reason you read pynch in order

http://www.strawpoll.me/10098623

>>7983696
>Absalom leading the poll, Light in August 3rd
Nice memes