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Title: One of those great trips...
Review: GRAVITY'S RAINBOW may be to post-modernism what Joyce's ULYSSES is to moderism. Something like an encyclopedic guide for the second half of the twentieth century - at least that's what the inner flap on my edition says. This is not an "easy" book. It's extremely long, and probably more complex - Pynchon fills every page with new characters, new settings, new ideas - than anything else I've ever read. A description of the "plot" will hardly suffice. There's one up above here at Amazon, if you're interested. Scenes ranging from the tender and profound to the ridiculous and disgusting come and go with abandon, rendered in prose that is often inventive and beautiful. The book never answers the questions it brings up about technology and mortality, but perhaps that's its appeal. It's an ambiguous text that each reader can find his/her own insights into. If you have time on your hands and a little reading ambition, this is one novel that's worth it.
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