Weekly Discussions

Gravity's Rainbow Week NineThese are my thoughts and notes from this week's reading. Looking forward to unpacking some of the themes and filling the gaps with the gang! - JamesIllustration by Zak Smith – borrowed from the Internet ArchiveReflections We begin this...

Gravity's Rainbow Week EightI'm going to buck the trend and allow someone else to summarize given there's the below fantastic breakdown already. It looks like page 334-389 of the Penguin Classic Delux Edition correspond to his summaries "Chapter 4" through the end of...

Gravity's Rainbow Week SevenThis week’s reading broke from our typical cadence of reading from either around the hundreds to the fifties or from around the fifties to the next hundreds, so, if you are anything like me, you may be a bit mixed up as to where we’re meant...

Gravity's Rainbow Week SixThis section was full o' hijinks and I enjoyed taking a closer look. As always, there's layers-upon-layers of symbolism and meaning in Pynchon's writing but I've tried to stick to the surface details that my li'l brain can handle. Enjoy! –...

Gravity's Rainbow Week FiveIt's been a very long time since I last read this book any my memory was fuzzy, but this week I remembered. Oh boy did I remember. And then, with decades of maturity behind of me, I was all like, huh.  - JohannaIllustration by Zak Smith –...

Gravity's Rainbow Week FourHello all! I am your guide to Week 4’s reading. I’ve had some extra time this week, so this post will be a bit on the longer side… yikes! Here we go! All page references are to the penguin deluxe edition. Sorry to everyone not using this...

Gravity's Rainbow Week ThreeMoritz von Schwind's 1851 painting of Rübezahl features fly agarics.Recap & Reflections This section starts with a very evocative description new Dutch character - Katje. I struggled to figure out the prism style of this passage, is she...

Gravity's Rainbow Week Two“Jeepers Slothrop,” that was a hell of a reading! Lots of phobias and ‘philias this week. Negrophobia, homophobia, paedophilia, coprophilia…and what kind of ‘philia is a sexual attraction to rockets? - BruceIllustration by Roberta...

Gravity's Rainbow Week OneWelcome to the first week of our reading of Gravity's Rainbow! I truly am your humble guide for the first week, as I am coming into this with a very limited reading history with this book.  I belive I tucked into it in high school, and never...