Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.16202046]

What exactly is this book about? Every time I am trying to read it, I have to put it down because the prose is too terse. Can someone give a tldr?

[Anonymous No.16202049]

>>16202046
coprophagia

[Anonymous No.16202070]

It's about desiring things and the journey a person takes to satisfy that desire.

[Anonymous No.16202073]

>>16202046
Tentacle porn

[Anonymous No.16202078]

>>16202046
Society evolving to turn people into machines (figuratively).

[Anonymous No.16202107]

>>16202046
Basically just "DUDE WEED LMAO"

[Anonymous No.16202130]

It's about V-2 rockets going boom.

[Anonymous No.16202135]

war is the great industry

[Anonymous No.16202138]

Every single reply in this thread is going to be correct.

- tom

[Anonymous No.16203573]

oh no last night blm even got to kenosha kid!

[Anonymous No.16203590]

>>16202046
>The 60s was great and I miss it
But in a way that captures the spirit of it like when HST writes about it.

[Anonymous No.16203695]

>>16203590
it ... doesn't take place in the 60s tho. man, the morning crew is low iq.

[Anonymous No.16203801]

>>16202046
>getting PYNCHED by the prose
just push past it, it's worth it

[Anonymous No.16204571]

>>16202046
Slothrop's shizo pie throwing adventure and nazi homosexual bdsm erotica

[Anonymous No.16204593]

>>16202046

>If our understanding of the novel can be organized around a single theme (a rather absurd project, given a novel so varied and polyvocal), my candidate would be the idea of Force and Counterforce, of ultra-rational corporate power and the spontaneous, anarchic resistance that rises up in opposition to it. The deathly order of Power can be anarchically resisted by improvisation (bending the notes away from the "official frequencies"), an area in which TP is the John Coltrane or Charlie Parker of our literature. (I just paused to put on my CD of Coltrane's album Giant Steps, music for thinking about Pynchon.) This is the reason, the best and deepest justification, for all the novel's digressions and wild flights of fantasy and imagination. The novel exemplifies in its own form the kind of resistance it describes: Slothrop's slapstick antics, drinking games, stupid songs and labyrinthine plots are his improvised, spontaneous, anarchic acts of resistance to the forces of Death that represent power in the novel: Slothrop's "They," a group that stretches to include all military, governmental, scientific and corporate technocrats of death. Against them comes spontaneous life, wild sex, unsentimentalized love--all that is most Romantic in Pynchon. In the novel's form, at the level of narration, Slothrop's actions find their counterpart in Pynchon's choices: his multiple voices, incessant clowning, self-consciousness, goofball surrealism, slapstick comedy, long digressions, proliferating narrative lines. All of this characterizes Pynchon's resistance to traditional fictional forms (which he also clearly adores; the best analogy here is probably Pop Art's ironic relation to mass production) with their fixed formulas and rational rules, those carefully calculated equations that all add up to the death of art--or an art of death.

[Anonymous No.16204719]

>>16204593
Nice
>>16202046
It’s about railing against the inevitable and the consequences of powerful entities clashing and plotting in complex games and finding human connection, but it’s also about interracial gay porn and escaping from drunk Americans with the help of mountain gnomes while they sing songs about having sex with rocket components

[Anonymous No.16204743]

>>16202046
The bitchy faggotry of order takers and the end of romantic wars

[Anonymous No.16204984]

>>16202046
Every time a guy gets a boner a rocket falls in that location