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jonfaith 's review for:
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
Last week I viewed The Raid: Redemption and found myself actually astonished with the cardboard limitations of action cinema being actually transcended and nearly reinvented. One may ask about the relationship between a shootout with Jakarta's badasses and a hefty literary wormhole where Malcolm X and Orson Welles are but a staggered pair of chemical responses and Death gives Roger and Jessica the finger. Both examples pushed buttons and test our resolve. One could ruminate on bananas and Rilke for pages and not begin to grasp the richness of this novel. I consider it a gift that I was able to read Gravity's Rainbow twice. A yellow reader's guide was employed as was considerable espresso. The vision and nuance are maddening. I think of the latter albums from Scott Walker or Godard's Historie(s) du Cinema. There are limitless riches in this world, most have nothing to do with GDP or peer status.