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I really want to read Gravities Rainbow and the crying of lot 49 anybody read these? |
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I read "Lot 49" years ago... would like to read "Rainbow". |
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was it any good? Lot 49 that is? I've ehard good things but i know very little about both books. I am currently also trying to get a copy of Fahrenheight 451 by bradbury. |
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<--- yeah, i read gravity's rainbow, and the crying of lot 49 both amazing books. gravity's rainbow is crazy and brilliant. but most who try to read it do not succeed. |
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i am so tempted to buy both on play BUT IM SOOOO POOOR! |
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"Crying..." at least is brilliant... the other one is heftier in size, but probably more epic, consequently. |
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Ooh Bradbury! Get everything you can by him; the man never wrote a bad story IMHO. As for Lot 49, I found it enjoyable tho not earthshaking. Here's a review from Amazon: The protagonist is a woman named Oedipa Maas who, when the novel begins, learns that her former boyfriend, the wealthy Pierce Inverarity, has died and designated her to be the executor of his enormous estate. Inverarity's assets include vast stretches of property, a significant stamp collection, and many shares in an aerospace corporation called Yoyodyne. As Oedipa goes through her late boyfriend's will, aided by a lawyer named Metzger who works for Inverarity's law firm, she learns about a series of secret societies and strange groups of people involved in a sort of renegade postal system called Tristero. She starts seeing ubiquitous cryptic diagrams of a simple horn, a symbol with a seemingly infinite number of meanings. Every clue she uncovers about Tristero and the horn leads haphazardly to another, like a brainstorm, or a free association of ideas. This is a novel that demands analysis but defies explanation. My initial interpretation was that it's an anarchistic satire of the military-industrial-government complex, but it's deeper than that. Like Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire," it establishes a very complicated relationship between the author and the reader, where Pynchon seems to be tricking the reader in the same way that Oedipa is unsure if she is witnessing a worldwide conspiracy or if she is merely the victim of an elaborate prank. By presenting Oedipa's investigation to be either circular, aimless, or inconsequential, the novel seems to satirize the efforts of people who try to find order in the universe. Pynchon uses the concept of entropy to illustrate that the more effort (physical and mental) we put into controlling the universe, the more random it becomes. |
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awsome thanks, i will buy Fahrenheight 451 tomorrow if i can get to waterstones before heading to wales and hopefully I'll get pynchon aswell (assuming i can find them both) |
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Actually when it comes to paranoid conspiracy novels, I enjoyed "Foucault's Pendulum" much more. |
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