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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 ...
Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry
  10/10/25
has a single famous person released a single great work past...
Provocative Sick Gas Station Idiot
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Arvo Part is still making hauntingly beautiful music at 90 y...
Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry
  10/10/25
Norway's post war government prosecuted literary lion Knut H...
Trip psychic
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Robert Caro released the latest LBJ volume when he was 77. H...
wild heady space
  10/10/25
Depends on the book. His weirdest shit, gravity's rainbow, i...
Charcoal dashing trailer park
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I read infinite jest and literally can't remember anything a...
ultramarine insane nursing home candlestick maker
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Actually, I have a vague memory of of one of the opening sce...
ultramarine insane nursing home candlestick maker
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Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry
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Oh, you read?
Diverse electric furnace
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they're pretty readable his later stuff more so than the ea...
Sepia field turdskin
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That's a good book. Slow Learner has some great stories, alt...
razzle mint knife
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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:56 PM
Author: Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry

He just released a new book at 92 years old

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

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Date: October 10th, 2025 12:57 PM
Author: Provocative Sick Gas Station Idiot

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: Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry

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



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:44 PM
Author: Trip psychic

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=2most#49340592)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:15 PM
Author: wild heady space

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=2most#49340736)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:07 PM
Author: Charcoal dashing trailer park

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=2most#49339637)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:11 PM
Author: ultramarine insane nursing home candlestick maker

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

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:12 PM
Author: ultramarine insane nursing home candlestick maker

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: Erotic vermilion sandwich

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

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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:14 PM
Author: Canary soul-stirring ratface dopamine



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
Author: razzle mint knife



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Date: October 10th, 2025 1:19 PM
Author: white hideous boistinker



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:36 PM
Author: Charcoal dashing trailer park



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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Comical fighting address fat ankles



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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:45 PM
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Date: October 10th, 2025 6:59 PM
Author: Charismatic Fishy Dingle Berry



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Date: October 10th, 2025 2:38 PM
Author: Diverse electric furnace

Oh, you read?

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Date: October 10th, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: Sepia field turdskin

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5785069&forum_id=2most#49340460)



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Date: October 10th, 2025 7:02 PM
Author: razzle mint knife

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=2most#49340682)