J.T. Wilson’s Reviews > Gravity’s Rainbow > Status Update

Coherency slippage

Just want this done now but there’s still like 150 pages to go.

There are phases where this book’s stream of consciousness paranoia and slapstick become a weirdly enjoyable madness, and phases where the book pisses me off because of its incoherence and/or disgusting parts. Unfortunately the last 10% has been all too much of the latter.

“It is difficult to perceive just what the fuck is happening here.”

Nothing sums up this book more than the relentlessly grim death camp paranoia of the endless Pölker and Ilse chapter being followed immediately by a chapter of Slothrop pratfalling, nose sex and bickering about Beethoven.

Either this is becoming more comprehensible or I’m just tuning into its wavelength.

Fantods referenced, I knew DFW was influenced by Pynchon but didn’t expect that.

modernist shit