Great videos. Hope you continue these for the rest of the book someday!
@jansmitowiczauthor78
5 жыл бұрын
DON'T STOP!!
@MikeBoody
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the thoughts and comments everyone! You may have noticed I stopped doing a section-by-section breakdown, and I apologize for that. After checking my channel following a long absence, I realize I should've kept doing them! Two reasons why I stopped: 1.) I got absorbed in the book -- like, really absorbed -- and I didn't want to stop reading to do reviews. 2.) The BookChemist is so good at talking about Pynchon that I felt like I was just white noise on KZitem. Go and check him out for everything Pynchon and Chabon. It is now summer, so I will begin doing more book reviews very soon. I've read a lot since finishing ATD in the spring, so keep checking back for more videos!
@epiphoney
3 жыл бұрын
So did you like it? There's also a podcast Pynchon in Public that's done 40 episodes on Gravity's Rainbow.
@matthewcavanaugh4061
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy these videos. I hope you continue and finish the book!
@epiphoney
7 ай бұрын
Ready for part 3!
@HuckleberryGin
5 ай бұрын
lol
@clashcitywannabe
5 жыл бұрын
The Vormance expedition sequence is the part of this book that intrigues me the most. My theory on it is that it is the most blatant example of an alternate reality in the novel. If you've ever read X-Men "Days Of Future Past" that comes across as a reference point for this (along with The Thing by Carpenter like you mentioned and HP Lovecraft). It's a dark alternate future. Notice that during this sequence the Chums are older than they were before or are after. It hangs over the rest of the novel like a cloud. It's comparable to the end of Gravity's Rainbow where Captain Blicero fires a rocket at the future which is still in transit, on its way to us. The rocket is outside of time, a sword of damocles. Fleetwood Vibe's journal functions in the same way in that it is outside of time except that unlike Gravity's Rainbow's ending, it happens 200 pages into the book and is NOT the finale to the whole thing. Its irony is refracted (a way of thinking the book leads me to) by the fact that the first world war is looming in the future as well.
@MrJessewebb1976
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video. Helps concretise a huge amount of information in such a dense novel. You’ve mentioned Erik Larson’s books a couple of times. Would you recommend reading them ?
@BroJBone
5 жыл бұрын
Been 6 months now, hoping it didn’t defeat you again. Your vids have great insights into this book, hoping you make more. Hunker down and keep going, there’s a multiverse waiting for you in this one!
@MikeBoody
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jesse. The book didn't defeat me! I finished in the spring. Just got too overwhelming to read huge chunks of the book and try and digest them in short videos. I'll do some more books in the future.
@VGWG
5 жыл бұрын
Keep going! I’m currently up to where you left off. You can do it!
@bedet
5 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! I hope you keep up with these reviews! I plan on reading this one again sometime this year.
@42071
5 жыл бұрын
Bro, there is a major tonal shift where you keep stagnating. I know the whole book has tonal shifts, but the overarching tone moves away from the western modes in the European story lines. You gotta press on, keep reading. Heck one of the main characters you don't even name in the overview ep you did, granted she's not in the story until almost half way through. I think you gotta learn to just read it; you're gonna miss references and get confused in the plot from time to time, but that's all part of it. Enjoy the prose first, themes second, plot third, references fourth with Pynchon.
@MikeBoody
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks a cat! Your thoughts are mine exactly. I got very overwhelmed in the last 500 pages of the book -- trying to keep up with the tonal shifts, the historical map, the wild departures. I took your advice without seeing your post, and just enjoyed the book.
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