Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Thomas Pynchon's overrated "Gravity’s Rainbow" uses many of Kurt Vonnegut’s postmodern literary techniques, but fails to deliver anything of substance. In this video, authors and filmmakers Alex Sheremet and Joel Parrish review Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" by going through its bloated, ugly, stupid prose.

Clipped from ArtiFact 27: Thomas Pynchon vs. Kurt Vonnegut -- youtu.be/DN2QvbzqgD8

Dan Schneider’s review of Gravity’s Rainbow: cosmoetica.com/B1277-DES888.htm

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