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Originally posted by epbrown
I've yet to finish "Gravity's Rainbow." I've decided to blame Pynchon's self-importance rather than my own reading abilities, though.
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While I won't say that Pynchon isn't self-important or self-indulgent, the crime is somewhat forgivabledue to his virtuosity. It is a tremendously difficult book - probably the most complex and time-consuming I have yet attempted - but it is also one of the most rewarding.
It also isn't fair to feel bad about your reading abilities:
When I admitted to a senior literature professor that I was finding GRAVITY'S RAINBOW difficult, his response was somewhere along the lines of, "there's no shame in that, most literary critics find GRAVITY'S RAINBOW to be difficult."