http://tinyurl.com/4bj8nf (c) Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973) Europe-hopping comic metanovel of war and power, stuffed with maths, shaggy-dog stories, childish humour and ravishing sentences. And lots of rockets. Genius, though long enough to lie unfinished. -- AsB4, Henry Mu