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Title: Read almost anything else by him
Review: As somebody who holds Gravity's Rainbow in the highest regard - and no, I'm not in higher education - I have to admit that this one defeated me. It had some good bits up until the point where I gave up, including a stomach-churning description of a nose job, but compared to Pynchon's later stuff (and indeed earlier stories) the prose is clunky and unwieldy. Significance is all over the place. It's not especially funny. If it were by anybody else, I might have rated it higher, but I don't think (and neither, apparently, does the author) that it's up to his highest standard. One day I'll finish it, but if you're a Pynchon beginner, I wouldn't start here.
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