Wow! I loved “Gravity’s Rainbow!” I’ve read it twice.
From wiki;
“The novel shared the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.[1] Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a single passage involving coprophilia offended the other members of the Pulitzer board, who rejected the selection. No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year.[2] The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel.[3]
TIME named the novel one of its “All-Time 100 Greatest Novels”, a list of the best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005[4] and it is considered by some critics to be one of the greatest American novels ever written.[”
“Wow! I loved “Gravity’s Rainbow!” I’ve read it twice.”
Me too. Pynchon was a master of words and I loved how he wove the disparate elements into his story. It was a bit like Morning of the Magicians crossed with WWII.
I’m halfway through Gravity’s Rainbow because of this thread and I’m wondering why you liked it so much? The understanding and breadth of science in it are excellent but I don’t understand why he fills the pages with graphic sex of every kind, except perhaps the missionary position.