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Like it all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. The crying of lot 49 remains one of my favorite contemporary novels, but i cannot recommend the audiobook due to mr. Gravity s rainbow is a 1973 novel by american writer thomas pynchon. Spanning the period between the chicago worlds fair of 1893 and the years just after world war i, this novel moves from the labor troubles in colorado to turnofthecentury new york, to london and gottingen, venice and vienna, the balkans, central asia, siberia at the time of the mysterious tunguska event, mexico during the revolution, postwar paris, silentera hollywood, and one or two. Note the absence of scientific, political or social payments by europe after world war ii in light of the parade of giants like beethoven, einstein, queen elizabeth, descartes, galileo, picasso, newton, gothic architecture, shakespeare, and michelangelo, to cite simply few of the many flowers from europe. I dont normally go in for audiobooks but like you say, itd be interesting for a reread. The main characters of this fiction, science fiction story are lieutenant tyrone slothrop, pig bodine. Following those releases came a plethora of gr designs riffing on rockets, parabolas, saturn, pop culture, sex, esoterica, and everything else.
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