Each month, The New York Times selects a book to be featured for their online reading group. They do not have to be new releases, just books that have had an impact on the literary world. For the month of February, 2007, Thomas Pynchon’s magnum opus “Gravity’s Rainbow” was selected for this elite group.

The link below goes right to the discussion of this epic novel. New York Times readers tend to have more sophisticated tastes than readers of the Oklahoma Farmer’s Daily, so expect a lot of comments that actually delve deep into the content of this book, and very few people asking “what the hell this crap is about”. That’s important, because almost every discussion I’ve read regarding this book has been filled with comments from people who probably shouldn’t have picked up GR, let alone tried reading it.
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