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Hello. I will be finishing Gravity's Rainbow within these upcoming days. I have just started the 4th part of the book, The Counterforce. I don't visit this board too frequently so I wanted to see what everyone here seems to think about Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon, and his other books. I have only read The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice, but during my reading of Gravity's Rainbow, it's almost apparent that this is Pynchon's masterpiece.

>> No.15569057

i'm at 20 pages in and i feel like killing myself
does it get better later on?

>> No.15569088

>>15569057
Yes absolutely, Beyond the Zero I feel like is solely for introducing the themes and sparse ideas that will be relevant much later. Tons of scene setting crucial to the book is in Beyond the Zero, which is why it's hard to digest. Just really focus in on what you're reading. Part 2 was a breeze, and Part 3 really keeps your comprehension in check. You'll be alright. It feels extremely rewarding thus far.

>> No.15569096

>>15569009
M&D is better

>> No.15569119

>>15569009
Is it anything like Against the day? Other than Bleeding edge, Against the day is the only long form Pynchon work I've experienced

>> No.15569131

>>15569119
AtD is much more straightlaced

>> No.15569144

>>15569088
thanks
i don't mind the struggle as long as it is rewarding

>> No.15569168

>>15569119
if you like the weirder darker chums of chance sections in against the day (like the one where new york gets destroyed by the creature brought back from the arctic) you'll like GR. it's a lot more hallucinatory, nightmarish in places, but it makes the beautiful sections stand out even more.

>> No.15570431

>>15569057
Really? I quite like it thus far (~50 pages in). The atmosphere and just general setting he creates are very vivid

>> No.15571001

>>15569096
its the same book watered down

>> No.15571238

This book changed me. It's a lesson, a warning, and an initiation in one.

No clue where to go from here. Read a few pages of V. But it came out as bland. Read underworld, book is great but again not even close to GR.

Reading Delueze these days, he seems to fit in with Pynchon's take on structuralism and politics of anarchy.

>> No.15572148

>>15569057
Yes, you have to get used to the writing though.

It's a very good book.