endings

[Bekah]

I'm with AtD - fwiw.   That ending and GR will likely both stay with me por vida. 

Bekah

On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:14 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> Reading GR - from the first to the last page - was an amazing transformative experience for me.  I think it forced me out of my own limited, miserable, personal little shell and got me to look at the world in new ways (and I was well into middle age when I first read it).  That's not an act I'd expect Pynchon or anyone else to be able to follow.
> 
> Laura
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Keith Davis 
> 
> For me, nothing can touch Gravity's Rainbow. Reaching the end of the first read...nothing like it.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't *dislike* the ending of GR, I just didn't like it as much as
> the ends of TCOL49, VL and IV.  Maybe "didactic" is the wrong word --
> the Nixon reference was just a little too topical.  It seems a tad
> forced now.
> 
> On 3/5/12, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i like the ending of _The Crying of Lot 49_ ... spooky, pentecostal,
> > un/revealing etc.
> >
> > And the unity at the end of _GR_, all of us in this together: perfect.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> I'm with sometime sparring partner David on this.....that 'didacticism'
> >> you
> >> found just felt like the most
> >> original narrator chorussing I had ever read....and he brought in the
> >> movie
> >> theater!!! and I sorta almost
> >> felt, couldn't believe, the rocket above my head........
> >>
> >> Many a day since, I think that rocket is getting closer.....
> >>
> >> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> To each his own.  But for many, including me, it was Pynchon's
> >> masterpiece, never to be equaled since.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Gravity's Rainbow isn't bad, but just a little didactic for me, elevating
> >>> message over story in a way that's a little too heavy-handed.
> >>