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Are Pynchon books actually readable or just gibberish?

He just released a new book at 92 years old Cn a normal ...
domesticated mildly autistic hall
  10/10/25
has a single famous person released a single great work past...
Nudist giraffe
  10/10/25
Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 y...
domesticated mildly autistic hall
  10/10/25
Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut H...
Frozen nubile meetinghouse background story
  10/10/25
Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. H...
big pale piazza
  10/10/25
Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, i...
Multi-colored library
  10/10/25
I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything a...
beady-eyed shitlib school
  10/10/25
Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening sce...
beady-eyed shitlib school
  10/10/25
(guy who literally can't remember who the author was)
arrogant kitty
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aphrodisiac greedy stage
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Wine indirect expression
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Spectacular black woman
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Multi-colored library
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marvelous crystalline hospital
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Wine indirect expression
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domesticated mildly autistic hall
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Oh, you read?
Sapphire Heady Ticket Booth Circlehead
  10/10/25
they're pretty readable his later stuff more so than the ea...
Razzle Stage
  10/10/25
That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, alt...
Wine indirect expression
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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: domesticated mildly autistic hall

He just released a new book at 92 years old

Cn a normal person read these or are they like NSAMs "by you" page?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Ã#49339600)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: Nudist giraffe

has a single famous person released a single great work past 80? or maybe even 70?

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:01 PM
Author: domesticated mildly autistic hall

Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 years old



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: Frozen nubile meetinghouse background story

Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut Hamsun for collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation. He was in his 90s at the time. while he was under house arrest and subjected to weeks of compulsory psychiatric examination at an oslo mental hospital, he wrote an account of the case and defense of his activities in the war. The account was published under the title, "on overgrown paths." It's an exceptional work by a nonagenarian.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Ã#49340592)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: big pale piazza

Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. He'll be 90+ (or dead) when the next volume comes out, and I still expect it to be great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Ã#49340736)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Multi-colored library

Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, is readable but in a strange way. Often it's individual episodes that are linked thematically with a shitton of individual character plot lines that often don't intersect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Ã#49339637)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:11 PM
Author: beady-eyed shitlib school

I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything about it.

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: beady-eyed shitlib school

Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening scenes. Maybe involving a private detective

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:13 PM
Author: arrogant kitty

(guy who literally can't remember who the author was)

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:14 PM
Author: aphrodisiac greedy stage



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: Wine indirect expression



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: Spectacular black woman



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Multi-colored library



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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: marvelous crystalline hospital



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: Wine indirect expression



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: domesticated mildly autistic hall



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Sapphire Heady Ticket Booth Circlehead

Oh, you read?

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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: Razzle Stage

they're pretty readable

his later stuff more so than the earlier ones he got acclaim for

that said crying of lot 49 is pretty accessible and fun

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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:02 PM
Author: Wine indirect expression

That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, although Pynchon disowned them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2Ã#49340682)