01-1-2014, 09:43 PM | #1 |
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started reading gravity's rainbow
good book. really taxes your attention span to continually follow, but if you can accustom to the abrupt shifts in perspective/setting/"who the fuck's thoughts am i currently reading?" it's not terribly hard and you get there in 50 pages. i didn't really know this existed save for a passing comment on facebook a year back by a nerdy friend who likes thick literature and now i come to find out it's hailed as like one of the last "great American novels"
beautifully written so far. will post in this thread feelings about the book in spoiler tags as i work through this tome. so far i'm impressed with the sprawling, run-on sentence descriptions of mundane things that whimsically capture so much about a character, the story, politics, life, the universe and everything and then move on to the next fleeting description or detail. very comical approachable characters, every element of the story has a certain surreal magic to it. edit: should probably include a link http://www.amazon.com/Gravitys-Rainb...ty%27s+rainbow
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01-1-2014, 09:52 PM | #2 |
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Re: started reading gravity's rainbow
The synopsis in the link you posted makes the book sound interesting. Can't wait to see how you like it.
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01-2-2014, 12:02 PM | #3 |
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Re: started reading gravity's rainbow
Pynchon is...ugh. I've been trying to read GR for the past couple of years now without much success. I generally get through, say, 100 pages in one sitting, and then I leave it for a few days and am completely confused upon coming back because stream-of-consciousness yay. It's like a mental CrossFit without all the kitsch.
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01-2-2014, 11:57 PM | #4 |
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Re: started reading gravity's rainbow
whoa it gets harder to read, whoa it gets way fuckin weirder
cool.
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