Elmore Leonard is Easy; Gravity's Rainbow, first time, is still hard

[Robin Landseadel]

It's strange how, after repeatedly working my through the novel, the  
opening dozen pages of Gravity's Rainbow turn out to become favorites.  
Of course, it's been thirty years since my first shot at the baggy  
monster. Back then I thought—skip the first two partitions, jump  
straight into the Zone, all the eye-candy will pull you through. Then  
you'll want to start over, see what you've missed.

Interesting to note how Elmore Leonard inverts Pynchon's early edict  
about writing—"Make it Literary"—with his own rule: "If it sounds like  
writing, I rewrite it."
On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> http://lightscrape.blogspot.com/2010/02/getting-warmer.html