Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
25 people recommended it in 18 threads, 2009–2025.
4 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
took 4 months out of my year, but and it's still mostly a whoosh, but every time I started reading another book after that, it was just amazing how much better Pyncheon writes.
Not the easiest read but immensely rewarding. For better or worse some of Pynchon’s vivid descriptions are burned into my soul.
Gravity's Rainbow is full of insane slapstick and bawdy jokes in between the serious bits about war as a profit-extraction machine...
Highly recommended for young people! It's anchored in WWII which might seem like eroded history but hmm it seems our history decides to recycle itself.
On a darker note, if you had any illusions left, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
Also, Pynchon's prose is very rich - I expect popular lists to be dominated by lighter fare.
I like the layering of themes in GR and the whole fever-dream deliver of it.
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