[alfa6]

A big ol’ tip of the hat for finishing Gravity’s Rainbow.

I tried way back when, 1975, IIRC and never could make heads or tails of it.

GR Reminded me of the ending to Mad Magazines 2001 parody.
“How to write an incomprehensible science fiction book and gross millions of dollars”

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Wow! I loved “Gravity’s Rainbow!” I’ve read it twice.
From wiki;
“The novel shared the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.[1] Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a single passage involving coprophilia offended the other members of the Pulitzer board, who rejected the selection. No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year.[2] The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[3]
TIME named the novel one of its “All-Time 100 Greatest Novels”, a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005[4] and it is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.[”

[jocon307]

“A big ol’ tip of the hat for finishing Gravity’s Rainbow.”

Thank you, thank you very much (elvis voice).

I barely understood it myself, but I did find the scene where our hero (I guess) visits the gal in war time London and eats awful English candies very amusing.

[Flick Lives]

A big ol’ tip of the hat for finishing Gravity’s Rainbow. I tried way back when, 1975, IIRC and never could make heads or tails of it.

I'm glad to know I'm not alone. I don't even remember how I decided to latch on to that novel. 100 pages in I didn't know what this story was supposed to be about. Makes Philip K. Dick's books seem lucid in comparison.