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Title: Obscure and Disjointed
Review: I've searched but I can't find the literary side of this book. Where are timeless themes, the affective characterizations? The book's a little like Finnegan's Wake -- too obscure, too 'over the top.' Excuse me, but the book doesn't make integral sense. This long tome is more a collection of random sentences and rambling paragraphs too often concluded with three (let's be honest) fatuous, trailing dots. No, GR is not literature -- it's more like a going out of business sale -- it's everything PLUS the kitchen sink. And beware: one needs a companion book to understand it 'fully'. This book's failings are in part a function of it's time -- the early 70's - when culture was naively experimental, half-baked, vulgar, and exhibitionist.
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