First Reading of GR

[Toby Levy]

Yes I started it on the first day.. And a couple of my friends. We had to
drive 50 miles to Syracuse to a book store that had it on the first day of
sale.



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 10/18/2011 1:26 PM, Jed Kelestron wrote:
>
>> I read it during the first Gulf War juxtaposed against TV news footage
>> of the bombing. It was a trip. Different rockets, same complexities.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Henry M<scuffling at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to remember what it was like reading Gravity's Rainbow
>>> those first few times.
>>>
>> Did anyone else start reading it the first day--February 28, 1973?
>
> I plowed through the book as fast as i could.  Many of the events were
> familiar or somewhat familiar, which aided understanding immensely.  I still
> probably missed about 95 percent of it.
>
> P
>
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