Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow

After read another Pynchon book (The crying of lot 47) and after some recommendation from a friend of mine I bought Gravity’s rainbow. The first observation: It’s bigger. It has ~750 pages (and I’m only missing 30 to consider that book read) while the other had around 150 pages.

Pynchon writes.. a lot. I think Gibson could rewrite the whole story line in around twenty pages. The story is clouded, twice I wanted to put the book away. Maybe all those side stories are parabels, but then I just don’t get it. Also the book is written in another time: sodomy, tube girl erotism, pedophilia, homosexuality, s-m are reoccuring themes. Some passages seem to be written under the massive influence of multiple drugs and yours truly wasn’t able to reconstruct the environment to understand the ramblings of the author.
So maybe this book was great and I just didn’t got it, but IMHO it’s a better use of your time to read the shorter Pynchon ones. Love the dolphins, write by WASTE.

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