Gravity's Rainbow
I've started it many, many times over the years but jeez that is a hard book to read.
( Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:34, 11 replies)

I'm
the same with "Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance"
(dchurch bah, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:42, closed)

I have too
I've come to the conclusion that it's just shit.
( Queen of Cheesecake, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 20:47, closed)

I've read it twice.
I can't make head or tail of it.

I'm not going to let it beat me, though. (And I quite like Pynchon's other stuff...) Damn you, GR: I WILL win!
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:05, closed)

I'm battling with it now.
Ditto Underworld.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:06, closed)

No you won't.
Admit it.
(Gravity's Raincoat, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:08, closed)

Shutupshutupshutupshutup.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:11, closed)

I think I've read it twice...
... I suggest you just give up now.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 22:44, closed)

Oh, hai.

(Gravity's Raincoat, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 21:08, closed)

It's a funny phenomenon.
I started it recently and for the first forty pages or so I was absolutely bewitched by the style - he has a rare talent for evoking a vivid image in very few (paradigmatic) words. I can see why people compare it to 'Ulysses': you can't read it at normal speed like you would most books; you have to digest each sentence and let the full depth of meaning sort of wash over you.

It also contains entire pages of what can only be described as 100% pure, triple-distilled bollocks, tinged with latent racism. The longer I spent on these sections, the more I got the feeling I was disappearing up his arse, so I've put it aside for the time being.
( .Yeti., Thu 24 Jun 2010, 22:30, closed)

I can only take so much coprophagy
and my tolerance for the removal of testicles with a razorblade is limited.


Sorry if you've not got that far yet. It's not much of a spoiler, though.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 23:00, closed)

It was the six-page (so far) apologia for coprophagy that made me stop.
I'll get back into it though, the next time I have a really long train journey.
( .Yeti., Fri 25 Jun 2010, 9:11, closed)