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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback – Deckle Edge, October 31, 2006

by Thomas Pynchon (Author), Frank Miller (Illustrator)

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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

This Penguin Classics deluxe edition features a specially designed cover by Frank Miller along with french claps and deckle-edged paper.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Thomas Pynchon is the author of V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, a collection of short stories, Vineland , Mason and Dixon and, most recently, Against the Day. He received the National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.

Frank Miller is the author and illustrator of Sin City and the 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns, which is regarded as a milestone in the superhero genre.

Paperback: 776 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Deluxe edition (October 31, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143039946
ISBN-13: 978-0143039945
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Johnny Blaze

This is the one. Worthy of a national commemoration.

July 1, 2013

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There are no words to describe how it feels to read Thomas Pynchon's GRAVITY'S RAINBOW. What other novel has offered so much material at a similar price? To delve into locations spanning nearly every country, portraits spanning every lifestyle? There is a deep investigation in this work of the human spirit, the aftermath of war and its impact on the mind, the age-old battle of good versus evil (the bad guys simply called "They"), and though it takes place in 1945, it feels undated, forever relevant, qualifying for the most serious of book-club chitchats.

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW doesn't read like any other book, literally. Post-modern to the max. Therefore, no reader should take lodging in its universe without really accepting the fact that this is not an easy read. There are hundreds of characters, myriads of subplots, lots of German and French that appears randomly without an asterisk to note its translation. This novel moves beyond encouraging the reader to sit and gaze through it - it begs of you to hear its every note of its multivalent song. To take the journey with its main character, Tyrone Slothrop, and to compassionately question the material presented in front of you.

Many people will likely give up before getting 20 pages in, which is very sad. The book has so much to offer to its reader. It talks of very unique topics, teaches several eerie facts, answers a handful of hard questions, and even asks harder questions, questions that outstrip life itself!

My first Pynchon book was THE CRYING OF LOT 49, and I absolutely loved it. But, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, has become a close friend to me. Its more than a book. SO worth the $20-something you pay for it!

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Athena

Huh?!?

June 7, 2016

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Weird, maybe too weird. High brow, smart fiction, not really emotional, if you know what I mean. Either you love this guy or hate him, but you should at least try him. BUT: read up on what he was doing in this book before you read it. Otherwise, you'll end up reading it three or four times before it makes sense.

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Flimnap

A Poem

February 23, 2015

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A surreal poem at book length. larded with wonderful details from London in 1944. If you'd rather listen, George Guidall's beautiful reading (on 30 discs) is a marvellous way to enjoy the book (and would probably last you most of the drive from New York to San Francisco). The repeated mention of the V-2's arriving before the sound of its coming, and of the terror diffused by random and unpreventable death from above does inspire some reflection on drone warfare.

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Glenn Thomas Davis

Not a disentaglement from, but a progressive knotting-into

July 3, 2012

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Yeah it's a gigantic difficult doorstop of insanity. Abandon all hope, ye who want compact, fully-comprehensible narratives that don't contain psychic octopi and talking lightbulbs. For the rest of you, this is a sexy, science fictiony romp through a post-WWII hell of nuclear paranoia. It has a plot -- it's about a guy named Slothrop whose erections are a form of precognition, working for a group of secret agents trying to psychically defeat Hitler, and his adventures in Germany immediately following the war, where he becomes a superhero named Rocketman (and, also, about life, the universe, the afterlife, and etc.). But really... forget about connecting the dots and just let the Pyncho-paranoid poetry of the Preterite wash over you (like Joyce, reading aloud is most helpful). And for God's sake don't EAT OR DRINK while reading -- there are many passages that will result in unexpected laughing fits and you WILL blast cornflakes through your nose. Now everybody...

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sid1gen

Although not for everybody.

January 28, 2000

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I first read this book when I was 16, and it was the Spanish translation. Later on, I read it in English, and although I consider it one of the best, most complex books I have ever read, I was a little disappointed in the rest of Pynchon's production. I think he reached his zenith with "Rainbow" and it has been all downhill ever since. The book is not easy to read, and the action is not easy to follow, because the author likes to take the scenic route to enrich our view, so we get the whole treatment with physics, engineering, strategy, espionage, sex, love, fear, paranoia, and an assortment of other fields -some strange, some crude- that provide us with the view of a world gone mad from the prizm of an author that seems to have been down the rabbit hole once or twice. The only thing that has always bothered me about "Gravity's Rainbow" is my inability to understand its ending. I want to believe the author designed it in such a way that it would be very ambiguous, but I am really not sure. In any case, a great reading experience, although, reader, beware: those who look for uplifting messages; those who don't like harsh language; those who don't like depictions of sex; those who would not be able to read through very descriptive passages of (one hopes) less than popular and rather grotesque sexual practices; those who would not continue reading after the lavishly descripted love scene between a grown man and a twelve year-old girl; those who dislike "dense", descriptive literature; those who don't really go for the stream of consciousness stuff; those who don't like war books; those who have read this far and already hate the book and the review; all those potential readers should know that in "Gravity's Rainbow" you get hundreds of pages of what I have just outlined, and more. If you don't think you can stomach this list, move on to other books: there are plenty of good ones out there. This one is good, but not for all tastes.

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pwmeek

As difficult as ever.

October 19, 2013

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Gravity's Rainbow still needs word-by-word reading. This is somewhere between fifth and tenth reading for me. I wonder if I have ever maintained total concentration through an entire reading. I know I found new, unfamiliar material in this, as every other, reading. This re-reading is part of a complete review of Pynchon before reading his newest: Bleeding Edge.

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