On no longer recommending Gravity's Rainbow to readers

[Keith Davis]

A friend who read Blood Meridian and GR, loved the first, but found GR disappointing. I think it was the multiple unresolved narratives that he found problematic in GR.
He did appreciate the musical quality of the prose in both works.

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> On Aug 12, 2018, at 12:17 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 9 out of 10 people to whom I recommend Blood Meridian end up damning
> me for it, either because they find it too difficult, or because it
> haunts them forever after reading.
> 
> Nobody to whom I have recommended Gravity's Rainbow has ever ended up
> finishing it, so...
> 
> Jerky
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:21 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I still try to push William Gaddis' _J R_ on anyone I think knows how to
>> read. Few take up the challenge. And yes, by today's lights it's
>> "problematic", just like the rampant American capitalism it loves/hates
>> 
>> As for GR, well, I do talk it up but most won't listen. They'll never
>> know...
>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018, 12:53 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> A little twitter wit about Rian's tweet, reducing the opening line horror
>>> to kitsch, of course.
>>> 
>>> https://twitter.com/dzhimbo/status/1028606885216305159
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 6:43 AM John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Director Rian Johnson (Looper, The Last Jedi) recently tweeted a
>>>> question: "What’s the book you love that you’ve stopped recommending
>>>> to people?"
>>>> 
>>>> He followed up with: "Mine is Gravity’s Rainbow - I’ve come to accept
>>>> that it’s impossible to recommend it without sounding like an asshole,
>>>> and I’m a freak for loving it."
>>>> 
>>>> There's lots of Pynchon love in the ensuing conversation but I like
>>>> the initial question. If anyone wants to supply their own, go nuts.
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