Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

Review of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

        An endlessly rewarding book. It's very difficult, from the rambling, obscure prose, to the plot so complicated that it really doesn't count as a plot in a typical sense, but once you get used to Pynchon's style it's a blast, though getting used to it might take you the whole seven hundred something pages. I haven't reread it yet but I started it again a few months after I finished it and it was magically much more comprehensible and quite fun to read. Pynchon is probably the smartest writer alive, and while some would throw around the word "pretentious" in discussing a big, incomprehensible novel like this, Pynchon really doesn't take himself that seriously. He throws in plenty of intentionally stupid songs, bad puns, exuberantly obscene sex acts, and hilariously bizarre ideas. What one gets from Gravity's Rainbow is something much more vague and yet more powerful than many conventional, easy novels.

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