Read Gravity's Rainbow

usually i can finish reading a book in several hours…but this time was really hard..it’s such an obscure book.hold on,it’s worth a read.it’s Pychon’s at least!

I’ve tried to read this two or three times now, after getting it as a gift (off my wishlist). I really enjoy it, but the style is so hard to follow that if I put it down for a few days or a week it is really hard to follow when I pick it up. Next time I’m going to push to read some every day.

It’s no good! I’m going to have to give up on this goal, much as it pains me to admit. It’s just that there’s so many books out there and so little time to read them all. I settle down to read it and my eye keeps sliding towards my ‘to read’ pile, lined up enticingly on my coffee table.
I give up!

Okay, I’m thirty pages in….hmmmm, kind of hard to get your head around but definitely intriguing. I shall persevere.

Excellent book.. in the same vein as “Catch 22”.

As a very fast reader, it was hard for me to adjust to reading this book – it took me an entire summer, but I think it’s one of the most important books I’ve ever read. The only other book I read during the same time period – all the Sherlock Holmes stories – I needed something recreational in between concentrating on Pynchon.

All I know is that I’ve read it three times, and twice was heading into Easter. After Mardi Gras, more time to get lost in the zone. And why not? Don’t give him up for Lent, take him on.

I had this on my shelf for about two years, sitting pretty next to the reader’s companion…and I never touched it. I finally took only the novel on vacaction and read it straight in about 6 days. I think it may be like eating a huge amount of cake – if you eat it quickly, it doesn’t seem like so much. If you pause to reflect too much, rather than just let it hit you, you realize you can’t take anymore. (what wise words. cough. pardon.)

But I hope to reread it several more times, at least once with the companion next to me. Reading “Catch-22” first helped, in a way, as well – so many similarities helped me realize that when Pynchon’s characters seemed to be composites of nonsequitors and to just fade away, I wasn’t just missing something key to the book. Also, the ending blew me away.

So I guess my advice is just to plow ahead and let it hit you all at once the first read-through…further advice will have to wait till I get further myself…

Started it and it’s proving much more accessible than Ulysses. Thank f##k for that.

Is it genius? Or just total, unreadable, raving gibberish.
I am not sure.
I know it was all initially written on yellow legal paper in Los Angeles and Mexico City.