Just bought this for $1, was it worth it?

>price for my book
hi thomas, do you want to play counter strike 1.6?

OP here, it gets a lot easier around page 200. Re-reading the first bit of the first section after finishing the book probably helps.

And yes, I really did get it for $1. All paperbacks are $1 at my local used bookstore because it's not run for profit- all proceeds go to a free library.

btw guys the point of this thread was for me to brag because, and nobody has yet pointed out, this is a first edition paperback that I swooooped

I just chuckled to myself when I thought of the wacky, blunderous journey bursting with all kinds of wacky hi-jinks that OP is about to partake in
Just dont read too many pages in one sitting or youll go into maximum wack-drive and take a cannonball leap into the nearest toilet or enter the tour de france on a tricycle - or something equally lunatical!

boii dat grill is hawt

I don't find it ""hard"" (of course it is hard but not impossible to read), I just feel like most of what he is actually talking about flies (like a rocket lol) over my head. Maybe my IQ just isn't high enough ;(

After Slothrop gets to Casino Herr Goering the work becomes clear and intimate rather than providing the reader with the sensuous analogue of walking through a sandstorm stark naked.

>providing the reader with the sensuous analogue of walking through a sandstorm stark naked.

why did he do it that way, is he trying to be an asshole? or is it because "lel it makes sense you finish it kiddo"... I think I already figured out what the "big twist" is all about... when he talked about some girls private parts being "pixelated"... I don't want to spoil it to anyone and I'm not even sure if I'm right... but do you understand what I'm trying to say?
Also, who the fuck is the kenosha kid?

*blocks your path*

what do?

Man this thread fucked me up. I can't tell if op is really answering to himself or everyone ia roleplaying.

>dude what if nuffin is real woaah

who your quoting

His buddy from Cornell, at whose wedding Tommy was best man, and who died in a motorcycle accident a few years before Gravity's Rainbow was published.

:(

I recently finished GR, the first work of Pynchon's I read. Probably a bit of a mistake, but I don't feel as though I missed too too much. My real hang-ups are probably predictable.

What exactly was the purpose of the Schwarzgerät? Why did Pirate defect, and then did he REALLY defect? did the zone Hereros nuke the US? What was up with that chapter?

glaze over it and not understand the full significance

Well you might well have a first editiion, so yes

Read this and check if you have a first edition, you could make a lot of money

thomaspynchon.com/how-to-identify-a-gravitys-rainbow-first-edition/

If OP got the first edition for $1 he is a fucking hack

I asked my engi friends what the fuck did he mean by that and they told me it was a super hard math thing and I asked them to solve and they were like "Nah"
Do STEMfags not love their profession?

its not a 1st ed, its a paperbak

you never did the kenosha kid, huh?

also
>1st edition
>paperback
pick one

>Just bought this for $1, was it worth it?

If it's missing some pages.

I've read the first 50 pages couple of times. This book does absolutely nothing to me.

STEMfag here. It's most likely just a made-up equation, although a real rocket one could look somewhat similar to that.
However, you can't just "solve" an equation with several variables, you can only find one missing variable given that you know all the others. Even then, since in this case the equation contains several derivatives (represented by the d's and ∂'s), it could still not have an analytical solution.

>falling for the IQ meme

pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/articles/abstract/10.16995/pn.94/

ez mode

>you can only find one missing variable given you know all the others

I think that's the point of the equation user, that recognition

Read the next 50 you clown

So, only Pynchon knows the answer?

Its probably an equation for his motorised bar stool or something

Speaking of stool, what was up with the scat part?
I just finished the second chapter, does it get explained later?

>author of V. and The Crying of Lot 49

This just reminded me of when we had to read that for English class in high school and during my presentation I kept referring to the book as "The Crying Lot of 49". Everyone was chuckling and guffawing, and even the teacher had an air of laughter upon him. I kinda started losing my spaghetti midway through and when I finished I stammered "a-any questions?".

>that one kids raises his hands

"Why do you keep misnaming the book?"

I just wanted to fucking cry when I realized how stupid I was.

You described my experience with the whole book.
I was that kid ;^)

The first 50 pages already contain some of the most beautiful passages ever written. You're just making yourself look stupid mate.

Yeah, like the banana's dna part. But maybe is just not his cup of tea, dont call him stupid...

>Lolita

it's been explained already

I don't know, tick whichever box works for you.