Difference between revisions of "Gravity's Rainbow Reviews"

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'''3/11/73''' - [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html New York Times Book Review] - Richard Locke: "Pynchon's new book is thus an event--it breaks seven years of silence and allays the fear that he might never go beyond his early success. "Gravity's Rainbow" is longer, darker and more difficult than his first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's "Ada" four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner."
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'''3/11/73''' - '''[http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-rainbow.html New York Times Book Review]''' - Richard Locke: "Pynchon's new book is thus an event--it breaks seven years of silence and allays the fear that he might never go beyond his early success. "Gravity's Rainbow" is longer, darker and more difficult than his first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's "Ada" four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner."
  
'''3/5/73''' - [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,903913,00.html Time Magazine] - R. Z. Sheppard: "And now Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity—a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic."
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'''3/5/73''' - '''[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,903913,00.html Time Magazine]''' - R. Z. Sheppard: "And now Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity—a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic."

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3/11/73 - New York Times Book Review - Richard Locke: "Pynchon's new book is thus an event--it breaks seven years of silence and allays the fear that he might never go beyond his early success. "Gravity's Rainbow" is longer, darker and more difficult than his first two books; in fact it is the longest, most difficult and most ambitious novel to appear here since Nabokov's "Ada" four years ago; its technical and verbal resources bring to mind Melville and Faulkner."

3/5/73 - Time Magazine - R. Z. Sheppard: "And now Gravity's Rainbow, which is V. squared and 49 cubed. It is a funny, disturbing, exhausting and massive novel, mind-fogging in its range and permutations, its display of knowledge and virtuosity—a metaphysical, phenomenological, technological Mad Comic."

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