/lit/ - Literature

Can somebody recommend a decent free resource for online chapter summaries for GR? I'm about to start it and just want to make sure I'm not missing the important details.

Is it worth it to read a translated version of this, /lit/?
I can't find the English version for an affordable price where I live, and I'm skeptical of the translated version since the rising numbers of threads here about translations. It's the first time this is translated to my native language, so I don't have anything to compare it to.
I normally don't have that much of a problem reading translations, but I've heard somewhere that this particular work relies heavily on its prose to get its immersion and overall feel across.
Help me /lit/.

Alright so Imma bit late in this meme train but I just finished infinite jest, which I found amazing. I wanna read gravity's rainbow.

What should I know going into this? What should I expect? Are there any guides I should research while i read this book?

What is the deeper meaning going to be?

>What goes up, must come down.

Can you guys help a brother out? I'm looking for a free download of Gravity's Rainbow. I want to reread it but my library no longer has it and I can't afford to buy anything right now or download from any sketchy sites. Do you any of you know any safe downloads?

This mess

Is any other novel a better example of a meme?

I just finished GR. It wasn't the worst thing ever but holy crap was it overhyped. It had a lot of legitimately humorous, impressive, or moving scenes but there is no connecting tissue in between. 60% of the scenes in the book were just narratively isolated, grotesque, or thematically irrelavant. Again, not horrible.

I'm not some STEM pleb who just hopped in the deep end, here, I've read a lot of bizarre, long, and complex stuff but none of those things were bizarre, long, and complex just for the sake of it--just to be the "ultimate" postmodern novel. The style of a novel should entice, manipulate, guide, and provoke the reader; not berate them. "Blood Meridian," for example, is a long, dense, and stylistically obscure book that nonetheless uses these tools to draw the reader into a sense of desolation and ultimately deliver a powerful apocalyptic meditation on the evil of man.

I would be willing to bet that well over 50% of the people who have picked up GR haven't finished it and over 50% just pretend to like/"get" it because they seem dumb if they don't. The very definition of a meme book. I think when it came out it was so impenetrable that there was an academic race to comprehend it and people needed to act they were mining greater and greater depths from it in order to be smarter than the crowd. Eventually this behavior spread to an imageboard for anime enthusiasts and suddently you're a pseud.

Anyways, if you like GR feel free to expound on its virtues and if you didn't like it, explain why. I won't judge either of you guys, I'm just trying to get more perspectives here.

Just finished pic related.

>"Slothrop! We have to become the Gravity's Rainbow!"

>>8598285
Wait, you hate actual postmodernism?

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