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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780143039945 Edition: Deluxe ISBN: 0143039946 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 784 Publication Date: October 31, 2006 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravitys Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyces Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - It DependsThis is a very difficult book to characterize. On one hand it is a masterpiece while on the other it can be seen as total trash. It is in the eye of the beholder, and for that reason recommending this book is only possible if you know that person and their isn't an invisible wall called the internet between you. Gravity's Rainbow is the most difficult book I've ever read and probably will hold that title for the rest of my life. I read the novel in 10th grade and after the first 20 ... Read More Rating:  - Elitist snobs will love itI agree with the 1 star people. As a member of IEEE, I get the monthly magazine Spectrum and in one issue, some scientists gave a list of their favorite books. I had read most of them, but one scientist/engineer recommended Gravity's Rainbow. So I tried reading it. Got half-way through, enormously boring, put it down for awhile. I just finished reading Neal Stephenson's Crytonomicon, which was compared to GR, so I thought I would try GR again. So now I am 3/4 through and am determined to finish ... Read More Rating:  - The Mother of All War NovelsIf you have not experienced Pynchon before, getting ready to have your life taken over for a while. I bought this book when I was a freshman in college at the suggestion of my Political Science professor and, after several unsuccessful initial attempts, it remained unread for more than 25 years. Awhile back, I got sick of the thing sitting on my bookshelf mocking me and so I finally started and finished it, along with the aid of Weisenburger's "A Gravity' Rainbow Companion". (The fact that a 900-page ... Read More Rating: - Ambivalent on This OneI read this book twice in the early 80's, and now I'm at it again to see if I still think it's that good. I've always had my doubts, and Pynchon's work after this didn't help them any. I have to give this novel four stars or how could I justify reading it three times? It must have something! On the other hand, I can understand why most people I give it to throw it aside after ten pages. It's certainly an "important" novel, and it's something special, but definitely for a niche audience. Much ... Read More Rating: - Huh?Well, well. As I consider myself erudite, at some point in my life I knew I'd have to read this book. It's been on the shelf with Finnegan's Wake, Moby Dick and The Magic Mountain. Having finished the other 3 I had no remaining excuse. I still have no idea what it's 'about.' It frequently made me want to gouge my eyes out with a fork. I'm not sure if thats good or bad. Now I'm going to start reading Against the Day. Pray for me. 
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