Though I also wouldn't recommend Gravity's Rainbow for obvious reasons. Inherent Vice has you covered for an easy on-ramp to his oeuvre.
Nov 30, 2024
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Seems to be one of Pynchons less popular books but it was so fun to read
Feb 11, 2025
Immense, labyrinthine, horny. No one does prose and story like the boy TP. Give yourself to the rhythm.
Feb 23, 2024
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I don’t know why I would recommend it to be honest. The other two classics I would recommend from my heart would be The Catcher and the Rye or 100 Years of Solitude. Issue is that Rye is like the first “incelcore” book and I legit didn’t understand anything from Solitude but it was a ride. When I did read Catch-22 over the summer in high school, I just tried to get it done because I have a shitty brain that functions on porn and video games, but after I was done reading it, I tried living my life with the thought that everything was illogical, which worked for the most part, until I started to lose my mental health. so idk, it’s like a crack pipe, terrible for those who can’t control it, great for those who can.
Jun 13, 2024
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The film has so many moments of the most haunting and affecting imagery I’ve ever seen, and beyond that is staying with me in some kind of a sea-change way, which I don’t fully grasp.
It’s freely available on YouTube (linked here). Kanopy, too. Go see it.
Feb 9, 2025
David Berman was incredible with words. A new rainy day track on loop, for me.
Feb 10, 2025
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Like those weird, out-of-place lines that pop into your head when you’re trying to write a thing.
Write them down! Sometimes they lead somewhere or grow into something incredible and you just don’t know that in the moment. Like David Lynch & the opening line for Lost Highway popping into his head, completely out of context at the time.
It takes some work to trust yourself on these things, but it's damn worth it.
Feb 16, 2025