Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Gravity's Rainbow (Classics Deluxe Edition): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), (Paperback)

from davehartl

Heave the brickbats, brand me a mindless literary clod. For me, this is the greatest novel I've ever read. Period. If I was an author, I would hope fervently for the ability to one day do one-tenth of what this book does. A friend turned me on to this book in 1975. I've read it four times, the la...

from gbsallery

This is one of only two books I have ever stopped reading part-way through. The other is Joyce's Ulysses; the stylistic similarities of the two may have put me off of Gravity's Rainbow on my first attempt, but it was worth another try. Having now completed it, I have to admit that all the vocifer...

from gbsallery

This is one of only two books I have ever stopped reading part-way through. The other is Joyce's Ulysses; the stylistic similarities of the two may have put me off of Gravity's Rainbow on my first attempt, but it was worth another try. Having now completed it, I have to admit that all the vocifer...

from browner56

If you have not experienced Pynchon before, getting ready to have your life taken over for a while. I bought this book when I was a freshman in college at the suggestion of my Political Science professor and, after several unsuccessful initial attempts, it remained unread for more than 25 years. ...

from teow

When I finished Gravity's Rainbow, I didn't know what to think. It's an incredibly complicated novel with a lot to resolve, and it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It stuck with me for days as I mulled it over, and I reached the conclusion that everything I needed to be fully satisfied was t...