Thomas Pynchon power rankings itt:
I'll start
1. Mason & Dixon
2. V.
3. Gravity's Rainbow
4. Against the Day
5. TCoL49
6. Inherent Vice
7. Bleeding Edge
8. Vineland
I'll just rank the ones I've read.
1. Bleeding Edge
2. Inherent Vice
...
3. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Mason & Dixon
8. V.
8. Gravity's Rainbow
8. Against the Day
8. TCoL49
8. Inherent Vice
8. Bleeding Edge
8. Vineland
>>8076562
reading is hard, huh?
1. mason and dixon
2. gravity's rainbow
3. v
4. against the day
5. the crying of lot 49
6. Inherent vice
7. vineland
8. bleeding edge
Shit, shit, and more shit
Rating what I've read:
1. Mason & Dixon
2. Bleeding Edge
3. Inherent Vice
4. TCoL 49
alright yOU FUCKINg PLEbS
1. AGAINST THE FUCKING DAY
2. gRAVITY'S rAiNbOw
3. IN HERENT ~VICE~
4. mASON & DIX IN
5. CRYING OF LOT WHORETY NINE
6. V (FOR VENFETTA)
7. bLEEDiNG ehdge
8. vineland
>>8076601
>rates inherent vice above mason and dixon
>calls other people plebs
oh I am laffin
M&D is the pseud choice
GR > V > L49 >>>>>>>>>>>>
>>8076506
V.
Inherent Vice
tCoL49
>>8076628
lol it's funny how shitposters who pretend to have read M&D call it shitty when literally one year ago it was the patrician opinion on /lit/ to consider it better than GR, which was at that time considered the pseud choice. It's like this place is an endless cycle of reactionary idiocy
>>8076636
Against the day is due to be claimed as the patrician option
>GR
>V.
>M&D
>AD
>LOT49
>ALL LITE PYCHIN
>>8076506
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. TCoL49
Need to read more Pinecone t b h
Pinecone will never write anything better than GR, he was high as fuck while writing it and can't get as high/fucked up anymore because he's old
>>8076645
Can't wait till we get to Vineland and Slow Learner as the Patrician choices.
>>8076623
>he only read IV once
>he didn't understand the layered subtext
>he doesn't understand how it is more culturally relevant to the post-modern life than mason
>>8076709
oh please enlighten me on this 'layered subtext'
>>8076570
Reading shitty books IS hard.
>>8076636
Nah man, I've read M&D and I actually like it, I just get sick of the board bandwagoning on opinions like that. M&D is just a way toned down and conventional Pynchon and I guess it just bothers me how /lit/ is always trying to be one step ahead of everyone else by denying the sheer fun and genius of Pynchon's early experimental phase
>>8076623
This
What fucking pleb puts IV over M&D
Hysterical
1- Mason & Dixon
2- VII (Gravity's Rainbow)
3- V
4- IV
5- Bleeding Edge
6- TCol49
7- Vineland
>>8076506
1. Against the Day
2. Mason & Dixon
3. V.
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. TCoL49
6. Inherent Vice
7. Vineland
8. Bleeding Edge
>there are people on /lit/ who rate V. higher than Gravity's Rainbow
Mason & Dixon is number one, followed closely by Gravity's Rainbow. None of the others come close to these two.
>>8076803
do your own homework, lad. :^)
>>8078218
people who rate v. higher than gravity's rainbow boggle my mind too
1. GR
2. M&D
3. TCoL49
4. BE
4. IV
I'm reading Vineland next.
>>8076506
fuck off with that shit
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Bleeding Edge
4. Vineland
5. V.
6. The Crying of Lot 49
7. Slow Learner
8. Against The Day
9. Inherent Vice
dont be mad hombre
>>8078218
"Against the Day" is his masterwork.
>>8077053
Inherent Vice was first published in 2009..
>>8078229
That's what I thought
>>8076658
Orly, bitch?
Great:
M&D
GR
Enjoyable airport reading:
IV
Vineland
AtD
Not worth reading:
V.
TCoL49
BE
SL
>>8079762
Great:
not you
Faggot:
You
1. Is it OK to be a Luddite?
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Inherent Vice
4. Gravity's Rainbow
5. Bleeding Edge
6. Vineland
7. V
8. Against the Day
9. The Crying of Lot 49
10. Slow Learner
>>8079762
>Airport reading
>Against the Day
Please tell us more about what an unbridled genius you are, anon.
>>8076694
I don't get the Vineland hate, it's better than TCoL49
>>8079880
no it is not
1. Vineland
2. The Crying of Lot 49
3. V.
4. Mason and Dixon
5. Inherent Vice
6. Gravity's Rainbow
7. Against the Day
I haven't read Bleeding Edge yet.
>>8080055
good taste
GR > tinychat / 4chanlit IMO
>>8079877
I too become retarded the second I enter an airport
1. Mason & Dixon
2. Bleeding Edge
3. Crying of Lot 49
>>8080099
referring to those books as airport meaning intentionally undercuts their significance as literary works, and is the type of content an actual moron would make
>>8080127
sorry for your stupidity dood
1. Against the Day
2. Mason & Dixon
3. Inherent Vice
4. TCoL49
5. Gravity's Rainbow
6. Vineland
7. V
8. Slow Learner
9. Bleeding Edge
>>8079877
the only pinecone i have seen read in public was on a transatlantic flight when a dude next to me was reading against the day
>>8080141
You've almost gotten to a point. Maybe we should keep going.
>>8080112
AtD us breezy as fuck.
Top 3
1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Infinite Jest
3. House of Leafs
>>8080112
You know what DFW read at airports?
Infinite Jets.
>>8080671
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