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<blockquote data-quote="Crisp Sandwich" data-source="post: 7425297" data-attributes="member: 5983"><p>"A screaming comes across the sky..."</p><p></p><p>One of the great opening lines. I wrestled with "Gravity's Rainbow" about 15 years ago and managed 250 pages or so before I backed away from it.</p><p></p><p>It's incredibly dense and too heady - much like (some of) the work of Ken Kesey, John Irving, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth etc. long tomes with meta plots that were read and beatified by people wearing scratchy jumpers who were stoned out of their wined-up gourds.</p><p></p><p>It was the '70s... Buckaroo.</p><p></p><p>Probably has dated as much as certain aspects of "Catch-22". Anti-war parable wrapped around civil/political unrest - looking backward to look forward.</p><p></p><p>Read Pynchon's "The Crying Of Lot 49" or "Inherent Vice" instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crisp Sandwich, post: 7425297, member: 5983"] "A screaming comes across the sky..." One of the great opening lines. I wrestled with "Gravity's Rainbow" about 15 years ago and managed 250 pages or so before I backed away from it. It's incredibly dense and too heady - much like (some of) the work of Ken Kesey, John Irving, Joseph Heller, Philip Roth etc. long tomes with meta plots that were read and beatified by people wearing scratchy jumpers who were stoned out of their wined-up gourds. It was the '70s... Buckaroo. Probably has dated as much as certain aspects of "Catch-22". Anti-war parable wrapped around civil/political unrest - looking backward to look forward. Read Pynchon's "The Crying Of Lot 49" or "Inherent Vice" instead. [/QUOTE]
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