Grabbity's Brainflow
FIRST: Thanks for the advice and such on the layout tweaks and suchlike! I’m glad I didn’t break it too much! So, hooray for that! ALSO: Starting next week (I know, it seems to keep getting shoved back...
View ArticleThe first 50 pages of Gravity's Rainbow — Matt's Take
This is the first actual entry in the Gravity’s Rainbow discussion thing! If you’d like to read along, this is the edition that we’re reading — so if you’re reading another edition, the pagination...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 50-100pp., Matt's Take
[Ben's been murdered at work, so his posts will be along shortly.] It’s in these pages that the story begins to get a little bit more explanatory; not fully so, given that we’re only a 7th of the way...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 100-150pp., Matt's Take
This is the part of the novel where I stalled out last time — or, rather, just a bit farther. At this point, I was reading, enjoying the combinations of the words and sentences, but not really...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 150-200pp., Matt's Take
And with this one, we go into what is, for me, brand new territory. The Leni Pökler flashback (more on that in a bit) is about where I lost the plot (pardon the pun) and ended up putting it down and...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 200-350pp., Matt's Take
Yay, we’re back on with this! Ben said he was gonna post an essay he’d been working on, but I guess he got waylaid by work or something, so he didn’t. But the fact remains that he TOTALLY SOLD ME OUT...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 350-500pp., Matt's Take
A promise or a threat fulfilled — I’m doin’ wider spans, like I said I would last week! So, there! At least we’ve kind of hit the part of the novel where it really carries you along with its flow —...
View ArticleGravity's Rainbow, 500p-END, Matt's Take
Image via Wikipedia So, I have finished Gravity’s Rainbow! I’m not sure if this has messed with anyone the way I ended up doing the read-along, where the first four or so are 50 pages per, and then...
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