reading _GR_; hurdles; meanings

[the Robot Vegetable]

   I just finished pressing my eyes on the words of _GR_ for the
first time.  First time completely through, that is.   For the first
150 pages I reread all the book to where I had left off,  and then
another dozen or so pages.   When I read 150-180,  I realised I
would never finish it like this.  I decided to keep reading until
it became difficult again.  It never did.
   The comment about the first part of the book being a set of
hurdles to weed out the, um, innocent.  My sense of reading _tCoL49_,
_V._, and then _GR_ was very much the same.  _tCoL49_ introduces the
story with no beginning or end examining alternative esoteric systems;
_V._ adds multiple threads,  and then _GR_ sends everyone to
Bangladesh to fight crowds on spits of sand.
   Geez, _GR_.  I find I am unable to read any fiction now.
   As to the meaning of the name,  books and books can be written.
I now think the best summation is noting that it is a take-off on
the rainbow yawn.

  veg