Cast it

Chris Pratt as Slothrop, unironically Idris Elba as Enzian, Christoph Waltz as Blicero, Sylvia Hoek as Katje, Liam Needing as Pirate Prentice, Martin Freeman as Tantivy.

I like it except for Pratt

Slothrop is black.

I think he has just the right mix of handsome and kinda scruffy to pull it off. Can't think of anyone better, anyway.

how do I read this? how high does my IQ have to be?

extremely high plus you need to like cocks and semen a lot

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Paul Reubens as Byron the Bulb

is this really the book? truly? please don't lie to me.

yes, pretty early on too, around the time where things start getting REALLY strange

I just read the first 5 pages and I literally can't follow along. The sentence structure is weird. How many books do I have to read before I can attempt this?

no

between 168–207

shit. that will take me at least 10 years. I hate being a fucking low iq brainlet. I don't deserve my white skin.

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fucking fund it

i mean netflix forks over the dosh for brit marling's tv show and you cannot possibly get more pipe-hittingly up-your-own-arse than that

>How many books do I have to read before I can attempt this?
every single significant work of western literature written up to the year 1973

this

if you have not much reading experience it won't be a good experience.

This is considered one of the greatest American novels of all time?

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its not that hard, just keep trying. return to it after more basic stuff if you feel you're not getting enough out of it.

Will he have a fake butt

s-starting with the greeks?

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Read The Crying of Lot 49 and then V. That should set you up enough for GR in terms of getting acquainted with how Pynchon writes.

since we've just gone full Yea Forums, and if you are really serious about reading good books like this user, read pic related in the following order : Infinite Jest, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow.
Infinite Jest is long as fuck but it doesn't too often try to intentionally subvert the read into mind games, it should get your reading comprehension back up to par but it'll take a long time to read

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oh and you have to read Moby Dick first too obviously, that goes without saying

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I'm not sure reading Infinite Jest is enough for anyone to immediately jump to Joyce.

The book isn't really just about "literature;" it actually has a certain amount of math that makes the story a bit more sensible once you understand the basics. In Gravity's Rainbow, all the precognition stuff is related to time itself being treated as a toroid (a donut-like spacetime structure) instead of a linear structure. Hence, all the focus on the parabolic arcs of the rockets.

Once you understand that the rocket trajectory is an ellipse rather than a parabola (ie, it goes "beyond the zero" and back around), the whole structure of the book becomes a bit more sensible.

Pynchon was playing around with different literature "conventions" like the detective story, the sci-fi pulp magazine story, the Homeric epic, etc. - but against the backdrop of a different conception of time.

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Jon Hamm as Slothrop

yeah but if he manages to get through Ulysses then GR will be a lot more fun

now this is a good casting

Why? Because his name is Tyrone? Nowhere in the book it's said he's black

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>named Tyrone
>smokes pot
>listens to jazz
Nowhere in the book it's said he's white.

He's written as a contemporary (read: 70s) character but in another time frame. All his types acted that way then, and it's exaggerated for full effect of course by TP.

>he didn't realize Slothrop is part of the Schwarzkommando
Embarrassing.

Slothrop is like twenty one years old. You need a young guy.
Dumbass its smack dab in the middle of the book, around Christmastime
Interesting take

Anyways, skipping the "GR is unfilmable" talk, I think if he could get a budget of $150 million, PTA is the man for the job, even though he absolutely fucked up on Inherent Vice

>PTA is the man for the job
>even though he absolutely fucked up on Inherent Vice

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Since this is Yea Forums, I'll tell you it's absolutely essential that you watch White Christmas and some WWII era mickey mouse cartoons before you read it as well. Yea Forums may or may not tell you this but it's crucial.

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I didn’t know I wanted this thread to exist until I found it. Matt Dillion as Slothrop.

This. I read V first and it prepared me pretty well for the mindfuck GR was. Still was confusing at times but without reading V prior, you will be completely overwhelmed.

no its not in the book why do you keep lying?

>PTA is the man for the job
I think anyone who's read V. and GR got strong GR vibes in The Master. The scene in the beginning with the crazy sailors remembered me of the drunk sailors in the bar in the first chapter.
There is also the scene in the beginning of The Master where the main actor is up in the pole of the ship, and in V. there is a similar scene where a guy goes up the pole of the ship to get something, I can't remember what (someone, please elucidate this), and in the movies, what they are throwing at the guy on top of the pole? Fucking bananas, inanimate objects very present at the beginning of GR.

i've read GR seven times

Is Inherent Vice a pleb filter?

cast it

In the book, he went to Harvard in the late-30's/early-40's, and comes from an old New England Puritan clan that became wealthy and then fell into financial difficulties.

Crying of Lot 49 would actually make a good film. It's surprising it hasn't been done yet. You could even have animated segments of the story-within-a-story about the midget submarine.

>Crying of Lot 49 would actually make a good film.

a miniseries would suffice in my opinion

Somebody on this board told me the other night that Gravity's Rainbow is a bad book because I said that the Metal Gear Solid story wasn't worth following and that GR is a good example of a complex story that's worth trying to understand.

i was thinking of MGS the entire time i was reading GR. very satisfying comparison.

Would the film include any of the musical numbers in the book? Part of the plot was that "observation"/technological monitoring was turning everything into a sort of "performance," and Pynchon took this to its logical limit by having characters suddenly burst into song like vaudeville actors.

But you agree that the other user was out of his mind, right? Back me up here.

absolutely. if anything, Kojima was inspired by GR when making the game

whoa how Metal Gear Solid does this book get? I've had trouble breaching this novel in the past but I love MGS and didn't notice similarities

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MGS is a Tom Clancy novel knock-off just with added supernatural elements

a book without songs ain't really a pinecone book

thank you

don't you guys feel Under the Silver lake a bit similar to Lot 49?

the narrative itself is not like MGS at all, but the general tone of it absolutely screams MGS, or more accurately, MGS screams GR
GR is a war novel with supernatural elements

I would... But I... I haven't read it yet.

Imagine comparing some shitty spy vidya to the best post WW2 novel

Try reading JR by William Gaddis it's more fun anyway, it's about a boy making money

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bitch, how about you start with the greeks

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John Goodman as Major Duane Marvy

I couldn't get past the first chapter either. No blame. It's not his best writing.

t. read Mason & Dixon three times

Though you may be thrown over
By Tabby or Rover,
You'll never go wrong with a pig, a pig,
You'll never go wrong with a pig!

How did he write V by the time he was 26

Infinite Jest is psued horseshit.

of course it is, but its also a good book to get people back into reading

I read in Yea Forums that gaddis makes pynchon look like kid's play, coming from a guy that loves pynchon. Currently on The Tunnel (first gass) and next will read The recognitions, my first gaddis. Let's see what's up

The only consolation to having to read these disgusting fucking posts is knowing they'll have tricked a few of the retards here into trying it only to be utterly disgusted

I can only accept Joaqim as Slotheop, even before Inheremt Vice.

Doesnt the sodium pentathol flashback to the jazz club say he isnt?

bump

>read gravity's rainbow first
>loved it and had no problem following the story
>read infinite meme a couple years later
>bored out of my mind and no clue what was going on the entire book, even after finishing it

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I personally think that GR is easier to follow than Ulysses.

Too many bananas for you?

Holy shit who would even write and direct this? PTA?

GR is MUCH easier to follow that ulysses

he fucking dies because of this too
imagine having such a terrible fetish

bump

based bump poster. this movie needs to get made. although i must admit it'd be better as a series

or even a series of movies

>Would the film include any of the musical numbers in the book?
It better. Also, did anyone else try to think of how the musical numbers would sound like?

he wrote this when he was sixteen.

biblioklept.org/2013/02/26/ye-legend-of-sir-stupid-and-the-purple-knight-thomas-pynchon-juvenilia/

Literature is one of those areas I've accepted that I just won't have the time to acquaint myself with on a comprehensive or substantial level. I'm interested, and kind of worked out the main areas that are relevant to me and worth reading, but I'm already committed to my own, other artforms and even just one form is really a life's work to get any kind of mastery in, and you really have to focus on the area most relevant to you.

As much as I'd like to read every classic and then some, it would just take too much time.

Am I the only one who imagines Slothrop as Bruce Campbell?

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Which really sucks because I even bought a lot of these books several years back and just will never get to them. Had to sell many of them already just to make room.

>Also, did anyone else try to think of how the musical numbers would sound like?
youtube.com/watch?v=BNozTrgq_Kc
You can replace the lyrics of this song to "Slothrop, snap to". It's common knowledge that Pynchon set some of his lyrics to known tunes. The Kinks' A Well Respected Man is another example.