Pros: Will, if allowed, teach you what great literature can be. Cons: Extremely complex and chaotic. Linearity is no life-line here, and is not regularly provided.
To dream the impossible dream... That dream being to write a concise but thorough review of one of the most difficult works of literature in the English language. I know I must be asking for it, but here we go.
Pros: Brilliant prose, complex plot, and hilarious subplots. Cons: Can be confusing at times. The book needs a lot of time and attention.
An Introduction via a digression.
In which the author of this review rants about the exclusion of the reviewed novel from the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century list. The reader is warned to scroll forward to the next section if they...
Pros: The greatest novel ever written Cons: Difficult to the point of insanity
Gravity's Rainbow.* Those two little words are enough to make even the most hardened of readers shake. There is a dullness to the eyes upon hearing Pynchon's name, an instantaneous reverie-inducing magic word of Kabbalah among the literary aware. Yet ...
Pros: Brilliant, hilarious Cons: Complex, difficult style, possibly offensive to the humorless
Okay, it's not a Fox tell-all about Kermit and Miss Piggy, but instead a controversial comedy epic. If you've never read Pynchon, don't start with this one; go read THE CRYING OF LOT 49, more a novelle than a novel and a good introduction to Pynchon's...
Pros: Funny, impressive in scope, brilliant in character! Cons: Twisted plot, hugely winding sentences
Right off the bat, let me say my rating is closer to 4 1/2 than 4. That said, "Gravity's Rainbow" is one of those post-modern novels that seems like way too much and in a lot of ways, it is. Thomas Pynchon doesn't do short. His books are long, his...
Pros: Brilliant prose, POWERFUL imagery, pure emotive reading, and a telling commentary on war Cons: Difficult prose, Sometimes have to psych yourself up to read for the day
I rate Gravity's Rainbow as one of the most powerful novels I have ever read. It is, of course, incredibly difficult to read for a number of oft-cited reasons: the hundreds of characters, the density of the prose, the run-on sentences, and the lack of a ...
Pros: amazing scope and magnitude-- and at least you're not reading harry potter Cons: what the f--k....?!?!?!?
MAYBE it's a cultural thing. I come from a Southeast-Asian country and I wouldn't know if I'd end up liking Gravity's Rainbow better had I been educated elsewhere. And yeah-- at LEAST ít's not Harry Potter you're reading. The sheer THICKNESS of the...
1974 National Book Award Winner. Many narrative threads make up a story that may or may not be about the secret development and deployment of a rocket...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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