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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award A screaming comes across the sky. . . A few months after the Germans secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.
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Ruthiella
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#ThankfulThursday

1. I had hoped to visit friends in Scotland this fall but due to Covid19 will postpone ...maybe next year? We were definitely going to also visit Wigtown, that town with all the bookstores! 😢

2. I‘m grateful for those longtime friends who live in far away states and countries!

3. Since it‘s Saturday 🤪 I won‘t tag anyone specifically, though it is never a bad time express thankfulness! 😁

Thanks for the tag @Sace

Cosmos_Moon Scotland sounds amazing 💚 I have old friends that live all over the US and world and would love to visit them all! 4y
Ruthiella @Cosmos_Moon long-standing friendship are the best! ❤️ 4y
Cosmos_Moon For sure! I just had a zoom meeting last night with 3 of my best friends and we‘re each in different US time zones. I was on with them from 6:30-midnight central. It was so nice 🥰 4y
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Addison_Reads
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It's that time again for me to purge my shelves and pass on books to my fellow Littens with some #PayItForward GiveAways. 🎉

First up is a used paperback copy of Gravity's Rainbow. If you'd like to have this book simply comment below and let me know. US only please since we still have shipping restrictions here.

Enjoy! 😁

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Addison_Reads
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Mehso-so

For the past 3 days I have spent every free moment reading this epic novel that has been on my TBR since high school.

Having finished it, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I didn't love it; I didn't hate it. There are sections of it that have some of the most profound writing I have ever read. However, a big chunk of it I felt wasn't needed and just added to my overall confusion.

I can appreciate it though and I'm glad I finally read it.

vivastory That's impressive! 4y
Crazeedi Since high school, that's an excellent accomplishment👏💖 4y
TheAromaofBooks Wow! Great work finally getting it checked off the list!!! 4y
Addison_Reads @vivastory @Crazeedi @TheAromaofBooks Thank you ☺ I'm extremely happy that I finally tackled it, but now it's time for some smaller reads I think. 4y
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Addison_Reads
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I picked this book up from my local library in 1996 when I was still in high school. I only read a few chapters then and always told myself I'd get back to it and finish it because those few chapters have stuck with me all these years.

My husband bought it for me last Christmas and I still haven't read it. I think I'll make it my first read in December this year. 😁

#GratefulReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Yay!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 4y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 😊 4y
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KSNAP
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Still pissed I couldn't find a fake octopus in time to complete my Slothrop costume for Halloween.

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Violetta
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#7days7covers #covercrush Day7

@vanslibanan, would you like to join in and show your favorite covers without explanation for 7 days? 😁

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CoffeeNBooks
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This is on my TBR list, because it's one of the books on my Greatest Opening Lines of Literature mug, but I haven't read it yet. #AyUpAugust #ChasingRainbows
@Cinfhen @squirrelbrain

CaitlinR It‘s been a long time, but my younger self loved it — hope you will too. 5y
Billypar Good choice: I have the same mug and Gravity's Rainbow is also on my 'one of these days' list. 5y
Godpants Good luck! It‘s a lot. I‘ll probably try to finish it someday. 5y
Cinfhen It‘s a title I‘m familiar with but I have no idea what the book is about 🙄#MaybeOneDay 5y
squirrelbrain Great choice! 👍🌈 5y
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Sharpeipup
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Challenge completed!
While I don‘t live near the group anymore, I do plan on joining them remotely for their next challenge in the Fall.
#bookstorechallenge #chunkster #readingchallenge

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britt_brooke
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Tina, thank you SO much for sending this to me. So kind of you! 🤗 I love Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, so bonus! #bookmail

Sharpeipup Yay! 5y
Reviewsbylola Great cover. I read portions of this for a postmodern class in college. It‘s def different. 5y
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Sharpeipup
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📚see tagged
🎬Finding Dory
🎶Beautiful Briny Sea
#manicmonday @JoScho

JoScho Finding Dory is a good one 💛🦑💛 5y
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Sharpeipup
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Got talked into joining a book club reading this tome. Has anyone ever actually finished it? Please give me hope...

#chunkster #bookclub #slowgoing

britt_brooke Still in my TBR! 5y
LauraBeth I tried it when I was in my mid-20s and disliked it and bailed. I‘ve never been tempted to look at it again 😀 I haven‘t met too many people who have completed it. 5y
Sharpeipup @LauraBeth I have no illusions of liking it. 5y
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Sharpeipup @britt_brooke You‘re welcome to my copy once I‘m done. 5y
britt_brooke @Sharpeipup That‘s is so kind! I‘d love it, thank you. 💚 5y
Sharpeipup @britt_brooke I‘m done so the book is all yours just email your address to sharpeipup@Hotmail.com 5y
britt_brooke @Sharpeipup Thanks - I just sent you an email! 🤗 5y
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nudibranch
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Pickpick

#24b42019 will not be completed for me, but my #readathon did result in me FINALLY finishing Gravity's Rainbow!!!

Definitely an amazing work of literature...but I don't know that I could recommend it to people generally. Long, difficult, straight-up disgusting, and very very dense. But what Pynchon has to say, he says very well, and I am glad to have read it.

@Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

Andrew65 A great result but don‘t forget you still have tomorrow 😊👍👏 5y
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nudibranch
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First day of #24b42019, and what a #readathon it was! Got through 210 pages of Gravity's Rainbow...have another 300 to finish the book. 😭

@Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage Awesome! Keep it up sweetie 👍🏻 5y
Andrew65 Brilliant! 🙌 5y
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nudibranch
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I'm 100% positive that it is no accident that the premise of the book--Slothrop being the legendary "Rocketman"--occurs with formal introductory fanfare almost exactly halfway through the book.

julesG It's missing an N though. The word should be "Raketenmensch". ? 5y
nudibranch @julesG right?? This edition has an absurd number of typos. 🤦‍♀️ 5y
julesG It could just be a translation mistake, or not knowing German grammar. Unless it's spelled correctly in other cases. 5y
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Ruthiella My companion guide by Steve C Weisenburger notes the error in German but also asks why “Mensch” and not “Mann”? 5y
LaLecture Why is this character called acid (Säure) ?? It looks so funny to see German words in the middle of an English text ?. 5y
LaLecture @julesG Do you know the TV show “Grimm”? It‘s based on Grimm‘s fairy tales and all the magical creatures are called by German names but almost every name has a grammar mistake in it, much like this one. So cringy 😅. One wonders if they didn‘t know a single German speaking person to ask for help. Anyway, what I wanted to say by that is that mistake like this are apparently common ^^. 5y
LaLecture @Ruthiella I don‘t know the context in this book but in general there are several instances where “man” or “men” in English would be translated as “Mensch” in German. “Caveman” is “Höhlenmensch“, for example, maybe because “men” is also used in a broader sense in English, referring not only to men but to humans in general. (edited) 5y
julesG @Ruthiella Man can be both, Mensch or Mann. Depending on whether it's related to like mankind - that's Menschheit not Mannheit (the latter sounds real crazy, hinting at potency). 5y
julesG @LaLecture I was also wondering about the Säure character. 5y
julesG @LaLecture Only saw a few episodes of Grimm. Was annoyed by the wrong German. I mean, as you just said, is it really that difficult to find someone to check these tiny German bits? (also my issue with some things in The Book Thief). It can be done well though. Just watched Brannagh's Murder on the Orient Express. The German was accurate, even if the pronunciation had an English accent (especially the character who was supposed to be German). 5y
LaLecture @julesG That‘s another thing that bothers me (not only with German). If you don‘t have any actors who can speak that accent believably, why not hire an actor who is actually a native of that language? 5y
julesG @LaLecture Or give them a pronunciation/diction teacher. Actors learn to pronounce crazy alien languages, like Klingon, why not teach them those few sentences properly? 5y
nudibranch @julesG @LaLecture Säure is a nickname given to a guy who deals opium, who Carrie's a bottle of whiskey in his coat, and pretends its acid that he is willing to use as a weapon if a deal goes bad. 5y
nudibranch *carries. Ugh silly autocorrect. 5y
jmofo 🖤 (edited) 5y
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nudibranch
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#24b42019 starting this morning, and nothing else is planned for the rest of the day!! Hoping to make serious dents in these two beasts. #readathon @Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid

Andrew65 Good luck 😊 5y
BeansPage Very nice!😍 5y
Susanita Godspeed 5y
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nudibranch
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I have been picking and picking and picking away at this book, since July. Do you think #24B42019 is sufficient for me to finish? 😬🤯

Andrew65 Hopefully! Good luck with it. 😊👍 5y
nudibranch @Andrew65 thank you! 😁 5y
jmofo Welcome! I love this book but I also had to start it over a few times. It‘s perfectly okay to bail, too, if a book‘s not speaking to you. Are you enjoying it at all? 5y
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nudibranch @jmofo thanks! It's a brilliant book, no doubt, and I'm learning a lot about the craft of writing from reading it...so I would say I'm enjoying it. It's just really densely charactered, and occasionally is quite the stomach churner. 5y
jmofo @nudibranch haha yep. He did not make a fluffy read. I sort of picture these kinds of books to be mountains authors felt they had to climb to write and the books, in turn, are mountains for us to climb to read. 5y
jmofo @nudibranch are you interested in the craft of writing as a writer? 5y
nudibranch @jmofo Haha yeah that's a pretty accurate description. And yes, I very much am! I feel like this sums me up pretty perfectly: https://bit.ly/2BHwWX6 5y
Graywacke I worked through it last year, but used a guide and let myself go really slow. I was going to read all his books last year, but eventually decided it was more work than fun. But this one is both - work and fun. Wish you well. 5y
nudibranch @Graywacke thanks for the well wishes! I couldn't imagine trying to slog through pynchon's oeuvre in a single year. Just thinking about it makes me exhausted, haha! 5y
Graywacke @nudibranch it was fun and fascinating. But M&D was just too frustrating with out any normal prose anywhere. So that was where I stopped. 5y
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HannaPolkadots
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Bailedbailed

I bailed after 50 pages. I wanted to bail before, but I figured when a person takes the trouble to write a novel of about 900 pages, I should at least give him the chance to change my mind. I didn't.

andrew61 After finishing a much smaller pynchon this week i think i might avoid this one 😂 5y
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LiterRohde
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“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”

#QuotsyNov18 | 7: #Impact

📷: Made with Typorama

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LiterRohde
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“Down in New York, drive fast maybe get there for the last set - on 7th Ave., between 139th and 140th, tonight, ‘Yardbird‘ Parker is finding out how he can use the notes at the higher ends of these very chords [of ‘Cherokee‘] to break up the melody into have mercy what is it a fucking machine gun or something...”

#QuotsyNov18 | 6: #Jazz

📷: Made with Typorama

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LiterRohde
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don‘t have to worry about answers.”

#QuotsyNov18 | 5: #Plot

📷: Made with Typorama

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Mindyrecycles
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If you listen to podcasts and you aren't listening to Overdue, I implore you to start. Craig and Andrew take turns reading books that "you really should have read already" and then discuss them, spoilers and all. These two will read anything from the Hardy Boys to The Odyssey. They are hilarious and smart, and above all, devoted to reading.

Kimberlone Love these guys! Just listened to their newest episode covering New Moon. So funny! 6y
Amie This is one of my favorite podcasts! 6y
ericarobynreads I LOVE this podcast so much! 6y
bernadette Thanks for the rec. I checked them out and their podcast on New Moon had me laughing. Really fun. 6y
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smccallum
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Cram some more of this in before a work shift!

DivineDiana Great cover! 6y
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smccallum
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So I‘ve been off Litsy for ages, everything been mad since I left for Scotland to do a show but stuff is finally starting to settle and as luck would have it a readalong was starting so I‘ve got a nice big book to bring me back! Both excited and scared for this 😂

Suet624 Nice to have you back! 6y
MayJasper Good to see you #coversublime 😊 6y
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mrozzz
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So we‘re here! In Philly for tomorrow‘s meetup (and SO excited to meet everyone ☺️) and with some extra time after dinner, we OBVIOUSLY hit up Barnes & Noble. @BookBee89 has been wanting to try Thomas Pynchon and he was nice enough to treat me to Undead Girl Gang which I‘ve had my eye on for awhile. #bookhaul #litsymeetup

ValerieAndBooks Where did you travel from to get here? Guessing it‘s a distance if you‘re staying overnight 😊! Looking forward to meeting you guys!! 6y
Dorianna Have a good time in Philly! I hope Undead Girl Gang is good. I‘ve also been meaning to get that. 6y
tammysue Have fun! 😁 6y
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mrozzz Just from CT! Far enough to make it worthwhile to split the driving up over 2 days. We like being in Philly so it wasn‘t a hard decision to make whether or not to stay overnight 😃 See you tomorrow! @ValerieAndBooks 6y
mrozzz Thank you! We‘re having a ball 😊 @Dorianna it seems like it‘s right up my alley. I hope you get your hands on it soon too! 6y
mrozzz Thank you!! 😊💜 @whatshesreadingnow 6y
Ingerella Ooh! Have fun!! 6y
ValerieAndBooks Hope the traffic wasn‘t too bad! My daughter goes to University of Hartford and we really dislike the drive 😂! 6y
ErinGoBragh1011 Where did you go for dinner? I am looking forward to meeting you! 6y
CareBear Have fun!! 6y
BarbaraBB Have fun tomorrow! 6y
LibrarianRyan Yeahhh 6y
Jess I loved this book. Enjoy! See you tomorrow. 6y
mrozzz Just some traffic near NYC, otherwise it was a smooth ride 😃 @ValerieAndBooks (edited) 6y
mrozzz We love this little place Mac Out (on 15th I think) with the BEST Mac and cheese 😋 @ErinGoBragh1011 See you soon! (edited) 6y
mrozzz Thank youuuu. More pictures to come ☺️ @Ingerella @CareBear @BarbaraBB 6y
mrozzz @Jess Yay! See you! 6y
mrozzz @LibrarianRyan 🤗🤗🤗 6y
ErinGoBragh1011 The mac and cheese place? Love it! 6y
rachelsbrittain Undead Girl Gang is so much fun!! 6y
LazyDays You two are adorable! 6y
mrozzz Hehe thanks ☺️💗 @LazyDays 6y
mrozzz Yay! I‘m glad to hear. I kept thinking I‘d like it but put off buying it @rachelsbrittain 6y
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GatheringBooks
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#QuotsyJuly18 Day 7: #Conspiracy, lies, deceit, gaslighting - all seem to be the sine qua non in modern day politics. I have yet to read a Thomas Pynchon novel. Do you recommend I begin with this massive Gravity‘s Rainbow, or something lighter?

rachelk I‘m curious to know what other Littens think. I have yet to read Pynchon myself. 🤔 (edited) 6y
GatheringBooks @rachelk yup! i hope the pynchon fans will share their experience 6y
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Fridayfilms
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Ludicrous or fun? Either way, it‘s something I‘ve always wanted to try.

BookHermit I think it looks delightful! 6y
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Pat1287
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A screaming comes across the sky...Happy birthday Gravity‘s Rainbow!!The 28th of February in 1973 this big book was first published ❤️ #thomaspynchon

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Moray_Reads
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manifestsanity
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This might be the best onomatopoeia of vomiting I have ever come across. Who doesn't love a good umlaut?

CatLass007 😂 6y
Reggie Lolol 6y
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manifestsanity
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Happy Holidays! First post in weeks. Epic reading slump. I could blame Gravity's Rainbow, but I'm not going to point any fingers, Mr. Pynchon. I came nowhere near my reading goals for the year, but I did lose 40 pounds, biked and hiked 50 trails with my wife, and finished a new draft of my novel. Settling in for a few days off and hopefully some time to read, write, and eat cookies. Best wishes to all my Litsy friends and your families.

Lcsmcat Pretty 🌲! 6y
LauraBeth Sounds like a GREAT year! 6y
RiotMom That sounds like a solid year, even with Gravity‘s Rainbow slowing you down! 6y
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LiteraryinLawrence Sounds like you‘ve accomplished so many exciting things! Reading will be here when it‘s the right time for you. 6y
Redwritinghood Sounds like you had a pretty good year! 6y
ephemeralwaltz Happy holidays!❤ 6y
LeahBergen Happy Holidays! ❤️❤️ 6y
REPollock These are great accomplishments! Also, it took my ex a full year to get through Gravity‘s Rainbow. 6y
britt_brooke Those are some amazing accomplishments!! 6y
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manifestsanity
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The iconic #FirstSentence of my current read. It is a postmodern beast, a tricky, turgid text, but it is an illuminating, rewarding read. That right there in the image is the V-2 rocket.

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AMVP
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#riotgrams #day5 - #bigbooks

I seem to have trouble finishing larger books consistently; this and Infinite Jest I've started reading on 2 occasions, only to stop a couple hundred pages in.

I own 2 copies of this specific edition: one was a Christmas gift, the other I bought after the first one got damaged when my fridge leaked. That one's still readable, I just got the second one for display purposes.

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manifestsanity
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I just discovered the possible origin of David Foster Wallace's "howling fantods" (i.e. the "heebie jeebies"). I have never seen this expression anywhere else.

LeahBergen Hey! Cool. 7y
Bloomingjen Awesome 6y
REPollock It comes up a lot in 19th century penny dreadfuls--the howling fantods, the swiveling fantods, the screaming fantods. Great band names. 😀 6y
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manifestsanity
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Pg.42

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Check put my post from today if you're interested, because I added a link back to an older post with all my Litsy Tips. 7y
Clavietika @RaimeyGallant Great tips, thank you! 7y
Lynnsoprano Welcome to our community. #LitsyWelcomeWagon (edited) 7y
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manifestsanity
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This is the most fun I've ever had reading Gravity's Rainbow. I have failed multiple times. My system: I read a few chapters, listen to the Pynchon in Public podcast analysis, and then listen to the audiobook as a refresher. It's a book club of one. The novel is dense yet rewarding. Bursting with ideas and so damn funny. It's like falling asleep in a movie theater, dreaming, waking up, watching the movie, dreaming, and then back to reality.

Ericmanciniwriter I've tried and failed to read this ten times but I think you just sold me on try number eleven 7y
ReadingEnvy The first time I read it I zeroed in on the love story! 7y
manifestsanity @ReadingEnvy I just finished the section Beyond the Zero! It's all stream of conscious, metafiction, and meandering, but so goofy and weird. There is a distinct system of ideas and philosophy. Mindblowing stuff. Having a blast reading harder. 7y
Minervasbutler I bought it in 1979 - tried multiple times to get through it and finally managed it on about the fifteenth attempt lol. Well worth it in the end but it doesn't make it easy! 7y
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manifestsanity
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I have attempted and failed to read Thomas Pynchon's novel "Gravity's Rainbow" more times than I care to admit. As a silly literary exercise, I am experimenting with a new method to scale this daunting postmodern doorstop-of-Everest-proportions. Audiobook shall be my Sherpa! That is 30+ hours of wacky World War II antics, bizarro cartoon lunacy, psychedelic paranoia on parade, and far out physics. Wish me luck, folks. #bookrainbow #fallintobooks

MCYmermaid Good luck! I think I made it less than 40 pages. YMMV. 7y
ReadingEnvy I tried the reading guide approach my second time through this book and it helped with some of the context. 7y
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Tcip
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All this for under 40 bucks!!!'

BookishMarginalia 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 7y
Krisjericho Oooohh- jealous! Blankets is one of my all-time favorites, and I don't have my own copy yet. What a score! 7y
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BookishFeminist
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Omg I'm SCREAMING. I was wiki'ing stuff about postmodernism and stumbled across the fact that Thomas Pynchon's middle name is "Ruggles." ??

What a hidden gem. ???

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Driftglass
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Happy 80th birthday to Thomas Pynchon!

Gravity's Rainbow is my favorite book. I've read it four times...and through parts of it countless times. This copy (with Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels') has been with me road tripping across 25+ US states.
It's an endlessly creative, weird, and hilarious romp that never stops impressing me.
😎📚✨

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Nothing says "Monday morning" like learning about comb-sex fetishes in a book about psychological experiments in World War II...

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thomdunn
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Nothing says "Monday morning" like learning about comb-sex fetishes in a book about psychological experiments in World War II

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thomdunn
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Nothing says "Monday morning" like learning about comb-sex fetishes in a book about psychological experiments in World War II...

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Yossarian
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Since #candycolouredcovers has the superfluous British "U", I went with the hilarious "Disgusting English Candy Drill" where Tyrone Slothrop, an American stationed in England during World War II, must survive a gauntlet of eponymous candies.

http://www.olemichaelsen.dk/gravity.html

saresmoore This is fantastic. 7y
arlenefinnigan Superfluous? How very dare you! And Cadburys is well nicer than Hersheys 😜 7y
Yossarian @saresmoore Sometimes Pynchon is at his best when he's not being Pynchonesque. 7y
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Yossarian @arlenefinnigan Or should I say "Superfluos"? 7y
ReadingEnvy Omg that's one of my favorite (or shall I say favourite) parts of Gravity's Rainbow 7y
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"You were in London," ..."while they were coming down. I was in 's Gravenhage"-fricatives sighing, the name spoken with exile's lingering-"while they were going up. Between you and me is not only a rocket trajectory, but also a life. You will come to understand that between the two points, in the five minutes, it lives an entire life. You haven't even learned the data on our side of the flight profile, the visible or trackable.…"
An all time fave.

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#24in48
Good morning! Almost made it to 10 hours yesterday 🤓 I hope to get some more quality hours in today. This is a repost of my favorite book rainbow.

TrishTheBibliophile Love it!!! 7y
Megabooks Fantastic!! 7y
Bookchipmunk This book is referred to in my last read. I heard it was challenging but I might try it! 7y
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Lucindaisreading
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Just started reading this, really enjoying it so far...think it's going to take a while though!

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manifestsanity
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This is my Everest. After numerous failed attempts, I will one day slay this monstrous beast. Pynchon is a goofy bastard but he baffles me. I love the epigraph by rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun at the book's opening:

"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death."

#readjanuary #dnf

BkClubCare I put this in my classics 50 list. Uh oh 7y
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