Book · 1973 · Fiction
Gravity's rainbow
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So the ones I mentioned, and also then Thomas, Thomas Pynchon. who wrote "Gravity's Rainbow," which I think is one of the best novels of the 20th century. And I read that in Berlin in the late '90s, and it really blew my mind. I thought it... I think it's an absolute masterpiece.
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It reminds me a little bit of um oh what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one ... is that Thomas Pinon Yes yeah ... that novel has this thing about a secret conspiratorial Postal Service.
Why people recommend it
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is an epic, complex postmodern novel set near the end of World War II, exploring themes of paranoia, rocketry, entropy, and government conspiracies. On an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast titled Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA, guest Norman Ohler praised the publication as an absolute masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, recalling how reading it in Berlin during the late nineties profoundly transformed his perspective. Meanwhile, on an episode of Stuff They Don't Want You To Know titled Listener Mail: The Piasa Bird, Bots and the Post Office, co-hosts Ben Bowlin and his colleagues discussed the novel while exploring historical themes related to secret postal networks. Bowlin noted that the book is notoriously difficult to finish, comparing its dense, labyrinthine narrative structure to other monumental works of modern literature. The hosts highlighted the novel's eccentric elements, including its bizarre conspiratorial postal service subplot, which tied into their listener mail segment. Across these distinct podcast discussions, Pynchon's masterwork was revered both as a monumental achievement of twentieth-century fiction and as a famously challenging, rewarding labyrinth of historical and satirical imagination that continues to captivate adventurous readers.
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Norman Ohler So the ones I mentioned, and also then Thomas, Thomas Pynchon. who wrote "Gravity's Rainbow," which I think… 1
“So the ones I mentioned, and also then Thomas, Thomas Pynchon. who wrote "Gravity's Rainbow," which I think is one of the best novels of the 20th century. And I read that in Berlin in the late '90s, and it really blew my mind. I thought it... I think it's an absolute masterpiece.”
Ben Bowlin it reminds me a little bit of um oh what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one… 2
“it reminds me a little bit of um oh what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one ... is that Thomas Pinon Yes yeah ... that novel has this thing about a secret conspiratorial Postal Service”
“what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one it's one is notoriously hard to finish people that finish it say it's weird it's to get to the end of the rainbow is hard it's like infinite Gest it's like one of those books that's just notoriously like a little bit of a log but supposedly quite”
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“Listen, in 1977, the previous time this happened, that was the year of Gravity's Rainbow. People were apoplectic.”
“until Thomas pinchon the famous author of gravity's rainbow among others uh in 1984”