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gravity's rainbow is pretty hard to read by design, yes, although i should say its difficulty is overstated in the same way ulysses's difficulty is overstated. they have kind of become the totemically 'difficult' reads of postmodernism and modernism, respectively.

ironically much of the difficulty in pynchon comes from the fact that he folded in his years of expertise working in scientific institutions, the defence industry, etc. a lot of the high-concept stuff underpinning his works is basically the philosophy/history of science. imagine! a guy who did engineering physics at cornell using all those literary pyrotechnics in a novel! someone should tell him that metaphors are a waste of time.

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