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Title	:	Gravity's Rainbow
Author	:	Thomas Pynchon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 776 pages
Published	:	October 31st 2006 by Penguin Books (first published February 28th 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction. Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Paperback | Pages: 776 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 34010 Users | 2996 Reviews

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Advice for a first time reader of Gravity's Rainbow:

Gravity's Rainbow is a book you either love or hate, and if you hate it it's probably because you couldn't finish the damn thing. Though by no means impenetrable, the novel is daunting enough to merit a list of tips for those wishing to tackle it for the first time. Below is my advice on how new readers can get over the hump. Trust me, it's a small hump, and the masterpiece that lies on the other side is worth the effort.

1. Read V first ... Pynchon's V is shorter and more accessible than Gravity's Rainbow, but addresses the same themes in a similar style. If you enjoyed V, you will have built up a reserve of goodwill for Pynchon that will carry you through the initial rough patches of Gravity's Rainbow. This advice was given to me years ago, and I'm glad I took it.

2. Accept that you won't understand everything...Don't be concerned if you can't follow the many digressions or keep track of every minor character that pops up. As with other famously difficult novels, Gravity's Rainbow's real payoff comes in the rereading, so you shouldn't feel obliged to linger over each passage until it makes sense. Pynchon isn't trying to lord it over you by writing a book this dense; it's just his way of giving you your money's worth. Just follow what you can the first time through, which fortunately is a lot.

3. Accentuate the accessible...Gravity's Rainbow's unreadability is over-hyped. Yes, there are many jarring digressions, but threading through them is a fairly conventional detective story. Sure there are lyrical passages that take off for the stratosphere, but they are grace notes in a melody of otherwise breezy narrative prose. So on your first time through, it's enough to follow the main plot (will Slothrop find the mysterious Rocket 00000?) and enjoy Pynchon's jokes, which are laugh-out-loud funny.

4. Don't give up too early...I don't want to say that Gravity's Rainbow gets off to a slow start, but it has a lot of scene-setting to do, and the engine that really drives the book along only gets revved up in part 2. Part 1 is a well-executed minor key portrait of wartime London, but part 2 is where the drugs kick in, so stick with the novel at least that far.

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Original Title:	Gravity's Rainbow
ISBN:	0143039946 (ISBN13: 9780143039945)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, Pig Bodine
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1973), National Book Award for Fiction (1974), William Dean Howells Medal (1975), Tähtivaeltaja Award Nominee (2015), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (2015)

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Ratings: 4.01 From 34010 Users | 2996 Reviews

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I know history is rarely kind to harsh criticisms about super nebulous or "difficult" authors , but dig this --This book is horrible. After reading The Crying of Lot 49, Slow Learner and now this, I'm convinced that Thomas Pynchon is a hack, and the reason we don't hear from him is because he has nothing to say and knows that if we gave him a microphone and fifteen minutes he'd be found out.90% of the people who pick up this novel won't finish it, and 90% of those who do won't like it. But 100%

An Approach for Simulating Text Consistent With Gravitys Rainbow Technical Report issued 6 July 2012 by the Simulation Lab Originating Text-based Handiwork (SLOTH) While the exact algorithm used by Pynchon (1973) to produce Gravitys Rainbow (henceforth GR) was never documented, we contend that the method proposed in this paper is, on average, in a repeated sampling context, observationally equivalent. As is true of any simulation, there is a deterministic component and a random component.

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A MAN IN WW2 HE GETS ERECTIONS.

What is the real nature of control? From the first sentence of Pynchons National Book Award winning novel, Gravitys Rainbow, the Reader is transplanted into a threatening world where death strikes first, the cause second. It is a world of frightening realism and comic absurdity, all fueled through drug induced hallucinations, paranoid ramblings, and psychological investigations that is not all that unlike our own reality once you remove yourself to view it from afar as if it were some painting

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This might be my favorite novel. I read it over the course of around three months, on my fourth attempt, when I was living in Tallinn, Estonia. Something about residence in a very small European country heightens one's sense of the absurd. I would bring it to lunch at the bars where I dined and start crying into my club sandwich when the book was sad and laughing into my kebabs when it was funny (which is nearly always) and there are a lot of bartenders who probably thought I was crazy.The first

A few weeks ago, a guy at work asked me to look up the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and what I read scared the shit out of me. There's a chapter in my neighbourhood. But how much can you really know about a hermetic order? This guy is constantly name-dropping places I've just been, and circling around my life in a way that is altogether uncanny. I've overheard him say that I work for the FBI. Who's paranoid now? Who's watching who? I've caught myself listening to him across crowded rooms.