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Behemuff
Sep 23, 2010

but the eyes - never!
I always think I ought to try some Proust but never get round to it :/ Do you know a good place to start?

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Behemuff
Sep 23, 2010

but the eyes - never!

TychoCelchuuu posted:

I think he wrote a long book that is well regarded, you might try reading that.

Well I was hoping for a pointer towards something a little less monolithic, or some primer. But thanks for being a patronising oval office :)

Behemuff
Sep 23, 2010

but the eyes - never!
I'd like to get into some Pynchon....

Well if you don't just read Gravity's Rainbow in a single sitting and then publish a critical thinkpiece in the Paris Review then you might as well just kill yourself tbqh.

Oh, or I could maybe read the shorter but still representative Crying of Lot 49 first etc. etc. etc.

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