I used to get really hung up on visualizing everything in books like they were little movies for my brain. Then I realized that’s a real disservice to literature as an art form and also wastes a lot of time while reading, so now I just let whatever comes to mind come and let everything else live there in the text. If it’s important, the author will tell you, but rarely does what a character look like matter more than their dialogue or their actions or their personality and thoughts.

Oh yeah I’ve got that up next. Saving Gravity’s Rainbow for last in case it’s so weird that it turns me off of him lol.

Thomas Pynchon. I liked Inherent Vice ok, mostly because of the setting. The Crying of Lot 49 was enjoyable enough but didn’t wow me or anything. But the setting of Against the Day really interested me so im reading that now and it’s incredible. Reminds me a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2 with its “the end of the Wild West” plotlines and some of the turn of the century technology creeping in.