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Tips for reading Thomas Pynchon
Hello everyone! I recently began reading *Vineland* by Thomas Pynchon since it's apparently one of the influences for the movie One Battle After Another. I enjoy it, however I have found it quite difficult to read so far. Pynchon seems to love long, sweeping sentences which span multiple lines with several commas and dashes. A lot of his dialogue can be confusing because he often doesn't reference who's speaking but instead seems to present peoples' spoken words as improvisational and in-the-moment (more like real life).
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the story so far. I think I'm understanding the big beats of Zoyd Wheeler, Prairie, Hector, and even Brock Vond. I just feel like I may be missing some amount of substance in the words because Pynchon's style is so unique and unlike anything I've read before.
Does anyone have any advice for how to read Pynchon novels? Should they be approached in a certain way? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hello everyone! I recently began reading *Vineland* by Thomas Pynchon since it's apparently one of the influences for the movie One Battle After Another. I enjoy it, however I have found it quite difficult to read so far. Pynchon seems to love long, sweeping sentences which span multiple lines with several commas and dashes. A lot of his dialogue can be confusing because he often doesn't reference who's speaking but instead seems to present peoples' spoken words as improvisational and in-the-moment (more like real life).
Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the story so far. I think I'm understanding the big beats of Zoyd Wheeler, Prairie, Hector, and even Brock Vond. I just feel like I may be missing some amount of substance in the words because Pynchon's style is so unique and unlike anything I've read before.
Does anyone have any advice for how to read Pynchon novels? Should they be approached in a certain way? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
#entertainment
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