nelsonmaddaloni 's review for:

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

5.0

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I started this book, I think, in 2019 maybe January but I don't recall when. So I logged it on here on July 21st, 2020. It was a monumental read, absolutely astounding and mind blowing. It's not an easy read, hence the time it took me to read it. Each page is a rant almost, strung along various plots, thoughts, patterns, experiences. It's not a book you can just read, hence why I took my time with it, with breaks here and there, but committed all the same. It was extraordinary. I've never read anything quite like and it was just taking me back at what literature is possible of being and doing. It's very funny in many places, incredibly poignant in others, and shocking, moving, bizarre, surreal, but all very Thomas Pynchon as well. I don't know what else to say, truly, because I did it. I finished this monumental book that I'd wanted to do for a while.