Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon BOOK REVIEW 

You actually read it, you absolute madman.

Pynchon's books are like Animaniacs episodes wrote by James Joyce

One of the best things about GR is the way Pynchon slowly turns the reader into Slothrop - someone literally dispersing and dissolving under the weight of history, only to have that history repeat. That's why the complexity isn't a simple 'fuck you buddy' to the reader. We are all Pynchon's Preterite, living in the sewer through which Jack Kennedy's harmonica was flushed. Man, hearing anyone talk about this novel really makes me wanna pick it up again.

This is the best video you've ever done, man. I've been watching for years and you've found a great balanced between being humourous and insightful. And all without any sense of pretentiousness. These videos have primed me in a way that greatly enhanced the enjoyment of several books. Thank you for doing what you're doing!

This is quite honestly the only review I’ve watched of GR that makes me want to pick it back up...

It is certainly a divisive book among most, I fall into the catergory that sees this novel as a brilliant piece of maximalist fiction that completely changed the way I read, possibly forever.

One of the few books you can re-read every three or four years and still be as shocked, moved, and entertained by each time. I find that returning to Gravity's Rainbow every election year is both worrying and consoling.

I've read Gravity's Rainbow and The Crying Lot Of 49 and enjoyed it very much. Great review!

Loved GR when I first read it many years ago. I especially like the tale of Byron, the immortal lightbulb.

Glad you namedropped John David Ebert. Good guy w/ a lot of helpful, interesting work.

The fact that I found this channel last year actually made 2020 an overall positive experience. Thank you.

Literally finished this book for the first time last night. Good timing for this review... perhaps it's not a coincidence, it's a plot! Paranoia? During the last "Descent" scene in the book, a low flying airplane flew by my house, which did make me genuinely paranoid, hah.

Man, couldn't click this fast enough, and the review is everything I could've wished for. GR is on my shelf and I've been terrified but I think it's about time. By the sounds of it I'll be reading a synopsis after each chapter to see what, if anything, I understood!

Mr. Better Than Food, you nailed GR. NAILED IT! I've been reading this book since high school in the late 1970s. As soon as I finish Jim Gauer's Novel Explosives, I'm due for another dive into my favorite novel. Thank you for the nudge back into the void.

I read Pynchon's entire ouevre last year at the beginning of the pandemic. It had been the second time for most of the books and I capped it off with Gravity's Rainbow. I read Gravity's Rainbow in 8 days. Gravity's Rainbow is beautiful on reread. It was also far less intimidating after reading his greater body of work beforehand. For those intimidated, a reading guide of my own creation below. And why. I recommend reading Pynchon's entire corpus in order of readability, setting, and timeline, a "V-rabola". Start with V. as an overture; then read Crying of Lot 49, then Inherent Vice, then Vineland. That way you get a nice little California trilogy that is easy to follow noir stories that encapsulate his style and also move forward in time (Crying is 60s, IV is late 60s/70s, Vineland is 80s). Cap it off with Bleeding edge to create an endpoint at the furthest edge of Pynchon's internal timeline (2001) and end back in New York, where V takes place. Then you read Mason and Dixon, Against the Day, and Gravity's Rainbow. You'll move from the furthest point in history - the establishment of the mason dixon line - and work through his more encyclopedic novels from that point through WW1 moving until Gravity's rainbow. in so doing, you will have a grasp of pynchon's style and you will create a narratively geometric form of V and a parabola with his more accessible novels as one tine, and his encyclopedia historical novels as the other: V starts in the 1950's after WWII and is about finding meaning after the war; Gravity's Rainbow can be read as the destruction of meaning just on the tail end of WWII right before V: A perfect circle and metaphorical parabola. Given Pynchon's penchant for narrative geometry - the structure of V being a non-linear V-shaped narrative named after its elusive subject you will act as Stencil in the first book, searching for meaning. Even more, as you read the stories, you'll find connections between them that suggest a greater conspiratorial narrative, a greater "They" such as the elusive unknowable conspirators in Gravity's rainbow who are only referred to as a capitalized "They" who is everybody and nobody. In so doing, you will become, in the meta, a protagonist of Pynchon's style: Someone constantly searching for meaning in the margins, and finding it, but never something that truly adds up to anything and ultimately going along for the absurd ride. Given postmodernism examination of the concept of narrative, you will be engaging in a voluntary postmodern reading of the series. Through this, you can truly come to love Gravity's Rainbow as the pinnacle of Pynchon's body of work, and an encapsulation of his whole style. I know it sounds nuts, but it was an enlightening, crazy experience that was the best kind of absurd. And it made GR truly a revelation. Thanks for this video my friend, keep reading good stuff.

Some of the passages in this book are absolutely unforgettable, I finished it almost a year ago and still have vivid dreams about it all the time.

I haven’t read Gravity’s Rainbow yet, but so much of your praise is similar to my feelings with Ulysses, which I read around Christmas. It was the best experience I had ever had with a book.

I’ve re-read this one more than any other book. One of the greatest of all time.

Thanks for the little shout out. Your channel is one of the main reasons I started mine.

Nice! Mason & Dixon is my favorite novel. That and Against the Day channel similar energy to Gravity's Rainbow

After spending three years in the Marine Corps I attended graduate school in 1973 studying literature. I quickly became weary of the leafy bowers of the English poets, the Romantics’ novels of manners, and the like. In a bookstore I picked up a paperback copy of Gravity’s Rainbow on a whim as something of a palate cleanser. Other than the blurbs on the covers, I didn’t know a thing about it. When I started reading it, I was immediately struck by that “I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore, Toto” feeling. I don’t mean to put down traditional literature but this was, as the blurbs had promised::insane, exhilarating, and obviously a work of genius. It renewed my love of reading -- and learning in general.

perfect - another one of my favorite booktubers actually finished Gravity's Rainbow so I can put it off for a little bit longer!

My approach to hard fiction like this or Infinite Jest or Mason & Dixon or Omensetter's Luck or WHATEVER is i just don't worry about 'Getting It'. If there's something I REALLY need to understand, i can look it up, but for the most part, I just like to absorb the work for its own sake. Anything that goes over my head (and a lot, admittedly, does), I just enjoy the shadow of its passing over.

So my grandfather basically discovered Pynchon and because of hearing about that growing up I've always wanted to try reading one of his books, but as of yet haven't gotten up the nerve. This was a great review and it's definitely helped me towards getting to that point, thanks!

I read V in high school (too young to understand), but have been pining to get into Pynchon since. This motivates me to do so, so thank you.

I remember getting this book in high school and reaching the stuff with the bananas and immediately recognizing I was not ready

Someone long time ago made connection between the book and Rocket Engineer Jack Parsons. Parsons himself is like a Pynchon character, who had a crazy life which he tested rockets in the desert in the early 40s, which he was a part off a group called The Suicide Squad. He was also part off a sex cult which he thought would bring successful rocket launches. I recommend reading up on him if you have read GR

I was given the book when I was fifteen, two years after it was published. I read 22 pages and those 22 pages stuck in my head for almost fifty years! Then I watched this review. I started the book again and finished it at 5:30 this morning!

Reading a great work of literature should be an experience, and there is no more unique reading experience than reading Gravity's Rainbow.

Pynchon's family tree is really interesting to look into. He modeled Slothrop's family off of his own, especially the first generation. William Pynchon was the treasurer of the Mass Bay colony in the 1640's, and the founder of the city of Springfield, before being kicked out for herasy because of a book he wrote, the same one William Slothrop got exiled for but with a change in the name. William's son, John Pynchon was a fur and arms trader during King Philip's War and mapped the Connecticut river valley, he also married into the Holyoke family. A later descendent was one of the four magnates living in Salem who decided to close the bridge off from advancing redcoats trying to reach Lexington, effectively declaring war on Britain. The Pynchon's were so famous in mid 19th century Salem that Hawthorne made his doomed family in The House of the Seven Gables the Pynchon's. Slothrop's name is even a pun on this Salem-based descendency since it's a combination of "sloth" and the suffix "rop" shared by early preacher and head of the mass. bay colony for several decades, George Winthrop.

Awesome video! I made it my goal for 2021 to read GR and was able to do it in about 30 days through sheer will power. In my experience, the unreadability is mostly overrated. There were only a few moments where I couldn't follow it, but piecing together WHY everything is happening is basically impossible on the first read, and it was only through the help of reddit forums and commentaries that I was able to feel like I had a good grasp of it by the end. One thing I found too is that explaining what the novel is about is probably more difficult than actually reading it, so I give you a ton of credit for tackling this, you did as good a job as getting across what this book is as any other I've seen. Would love to hear your thoughts on Crying of Lot 49, definitely my favorite of Pynchon's

Is he officially/lit/ approved now?

You hit the nail on the head when you talk about the humor, it's what enabled me to get through the book. I started it twice, the third time worked, but after the shit eating bit I was so disgusted I put the book down for about a year, then I figured he wouldn't subject his audience to that twice, and came back and finished it. I am planning on rereading it in a couple of years, because, I have to admit, it was hard to follow. Now I know to take notes as I go.

"i have no idea what he was on if anything" i believe he confessed to being so stoned while writing GR that when he came to editing the book he literally didn't remember writing most of the first draft . which if anything makes it even more impressive

Cliff, been watching you since 400 subs and I love your work. Haven’t read GR, but I’m making my way through some postmodernist lit now after years of trying to ignore it. When you talk about how Pynchon articulates ideas and feelings that we ourselves haven’t or cannot that’s what I love so much about Pynchon and these adjacent writers. I know it’s a tired point to make, but Wallace’s work does the exact same thing and that’s why I’m so drawn to these authors voices and their work.

Excellent video, my friend! Still haven‘t read the book though. Min Kamp Part 4 is great! Hopefully I‘ll be able to get to some more Pynchon at the end of this year! Thank you for your work, Cliff!

Welcome to the club! and go for the rest of Pynchon (the lighter ones), definitely worth the time!

I've always been terrified to read this book, but this gives me courage. Thanks so much

Nice review. your one quote is going to keep me going with this book - (paraphrasing) "so what did I like? in the beginning almost nothing, in the end almost everything."

Pynchon and Mccarthy can battle it out all they want, but as long as Joan Didion is still hanging in there, neither one has a chance, in my irrelevant opinion anyway

On my list for years. Might read it now. This was a good external motivation. Thanks for your sharp no bullshit observation on the book, as always.

First time viewer here, really enjoyed your opinions on this daring novel. For GR, besides everything mentioned in the video which makes the book great, I really enjoyed the Roger Mexico passages. Maybe being a fellow numbers person, (Roger being the statistician mapping Slothrop's erections) his love affair with Jessica and his knowledge that the relationship will cease when the war ends, I liked. This book along with "Less than Zero" and Huxley's "The Island" really got me into fiction or daresay literary fiction when I graduated college 8 years ago. Obviously all different, but for me that is where my adult reading journey began. At that time, I felt like ah, now college is over, I am employed and finally I can read what I wish. I started with Nietzsche/Hesse/Kerouac then moved to three novels above reading most of Pynchon's discography, having to still circle back to the seconds halves of Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. After reading the Magic Mountain pre-pandemic and the Brothers Karamazov during the pandemic I've come to a reading lull. Maybe it's watching too much RU-vid rather than flipping a few pages. I've read smaller new works (Pizza Girl, Drifts, They both die at the end) and found them to be mainly scat or at minimum, not funny. And although I've encountered some good newer fiction (Midnight Library) and have pretty much bled Murakami dry, what has really hurt reading fiction for me has been Don Delilo. After reading White Noise and Underworld not long after GR, I thought he was Pynchon-adjacent. I then felt burned reading Americana, Mao II, Omega, The Silence. I still go to Barnes and Nobles and buy books I should read. Sitting on my shelf is The Corrections, JR and the Executioner's Song. Sadly I tried to read Delilo's Libra first and it just really burned me out on fiction. All this to say (and I realize it is on an old post) that this video reminded me of the journey that is reading Gravity's Rainbow and how funny it actually is and maybe a re-reading is my way to find my passion for the genre again.

It took me months of trying to start this book before it chimed with me. The opening is bananas... I often wonder what a Wine Jelly actually tastes like.

I’m sure it’s a great book but “5 pages a day for a year” sounds like punishment for some kind of a crime.

The mad lad did it

Hi, thanks for the review. I have studiously avoided reading any analysis of this book until I finally (today) finished reading it. I think we must all have our very personal responses to this book, but I don't disagree with anything you say, and you reminded me of the hilarious fun that I've had in reading it. It occurred to me that Pynchon seemed not to have edited or revised ANYTHING in this book, and while this can result in lapses in characterisation and storytelling, I did begin to admire him for just turning on the tap in his mind and letting this novel pour out. There's a quote that I won't draw attention to which talks of getting EVERYTHING out of your mind, and I feel that this could be Pynchon's challenge to himself in the project of writing this book. I would argue that his reflection on the WW2 era smacks too much of the cultural codes and the language of the seventies and this looks a little dated in the light of the novelists who continue to offer continually revelatory perspectives on that conflict. However, as a work of the imagination, GR is up there with the best. For an American writer, he shows a remarkably fine-tuned of Europe, it's history and its languages. This was my fourth serious attempt to get to the end of this book and I did it. The pages are yellow and I bought it in 1978.

Every time I hear the title “Gravity’s Rainbow” I think of that line from Tom Lehrer’s song about Werner Von Braun: “Once the rockets go up who cares where they come down…that’s not my department says Werner Von Braun”

I am currently reading this, at a pace of about 5 pages pr day. For about three years. I'll get there eventually. It is absolutely amazing and genious and the most rewarding read ever. So dense, which is why it is taking so long. Thanks for the review!

Finally! Looking forward to this review since forever. It's comforting to know you too get to read this book 5 pages at a time. Next: Infinite Jest!

Will you ever review 100 years of solitude?

"Bonkers" is such a delightful way to describe this book.

You picked the hardest Pynchon novel to read first aha

Thanks for this. I picked up a copy of this legendary tome about a year ago or so & have been meaning to get in there. This vid pushed me to be like, okay: time to go! I discovered your channel through this review & I assuredly be back for more, so thanks again! Quite enjoyed your style & wit & evident love of coffee!

I own a copy. I’ve owned it for about 15 years. It sits,on a side table next to a chair that I have never sat in. I had a dog,and she sat in it. This book is one of many elephants in the room,as I have yet to read it. I have a menagerie of elephants,in many rooms,including the bathroom(don’t ask). Every day,I look at that book,sitting there,now quite dust-covered,and I say to it:”Yes!I see you there!Stop looking at me!” Hmm,I really need to do this. That’s right,not ‘read this’. Do this. I think that this video has begun the prompting process. So,Yay😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😳

So much hype for this!! Would love to see something by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice for a good short read or the Magic Mountain or Doctor Faustus if you fancy something for the long haul. Love your reviews thank you for all of them!

Great review of a brilliant book. I personally adore the 'boiled sweets'.

The fact that he wrote V in his twenties is ridic. Thanks for finally reviewing this Cliff. : )

Great review! Even on my fourth read I found the first, say, hundred pages a bit difficult to get through, but once Slothrop is more in the center, it gets easier. Such a a great book though, possibly my favorite. Over on our channel you'll find a musical interpretation of the song on the last page of Gravity's Rainbow. Heck, we did an entire album with songs from Pynchon's novels, but have only made music videos for RU-vid for a few of them. Now everybody--

Love this. Read V! first and then Gravity's Rainbow. Read V! It's also stellar. This one-two combo reminds me of reading Bolaño's The Savage Detectives then 2666. - From one Austin transplant to another

Finally it came! This is one of my favorite novels. I'm glad you made emphasis on how fun and rewarding it is over how challenging. GR is not a torture device for the reader, goddamit! It's funny as fuck and all the paths Pynchon takes you with this novel make it worth the challenge. Pynchon's blend of science and metaphysics make his stuff read as a Borges story if his background was in chemistry and engineering. Regarding the complementary material you mention at the end, I would add to that the season the Pynchon in Public Podcast did for this book. In-depth chapter-by-chapter discussions by really passionate fans. Totally worth it as a companion piece.

I remember reading Pynchon's Vineland in university for a postmodern lit course and thought then: "This is like watching tv on acid, and it keeps changing channels." And that kept me off his stuff for a good while. I'm reading Lot 49 now I'm surprised, pleasantly, that I'm enjoying the heck out of it. Looking forward to reading GR after this review and more of his work, including going back to that traumatic experience of reading Vineland so many years ago. You get better literary acid tolerance out of the academic milieu it seems.

You did it! Hats off to you Cliff, taking on GR as your first Pynchon novel. Me personally, if I had a direct line into your subconscious, I would have recommended Mason and Dixon. If you like the comedy in this one, you will love it in M&D and I guarantee you will be hooked on the story from the first page. I've also started reading the Recognitions by Gaddis and am curious as to whether you will be doing a re-read. Especially because I see a copy of that beautiful NYRB edition creeping along your shelf. Thanks for all your work!

I have been struggling for years to read Gravity's Rainbow. I even tried to cheat my way through the audio book. I was even extremely hard to listen to. The rhymes help you to dance through the misery of reading the book. They taunt and jeer you along. They even seem to read your mind and speak on it. For anyone who has read this or seriously attempted you know the muddy trenches it forces you to crawl through, how filthy you feel and how hopeless and desperate to give up and yet the fight in me to go on because I'm are still interested yet so disgusted I give up. Then you think It can't possibly get any worse and yes as a matter of fact it can. Yet the delightful side is if you read just a little farther you might run into a rhyme and have a little party in your filthiness with all your storybook croonies, because fuck it there's no escape just a deeper knotting into. The sarcasm in this book is perfect. It's like the author is challenging you to read about human suffering without enduring it personally. He even ask if you thought this was a storybook you can read to your children at night. I was like a little ashamed I did think that. The audio book is worse because the audiobook you tune out and miss alot then you are rudely shaken from you daydream by some crazy shit going on and you don't know where you're at in the story and you are afraid to back up and find out where you zoned out because you are counting that as already read, just to stay moving ahead. When you read it it surrounds you and drags you through the pages, when you listen to it the story completely engulfs you in the hell of the realms. If you are struggling to read this book don't think you can cheat your way through with the audiobook. You really just have to handle one page at a time I want to try again to survive the Naphtha Winters with more children than can possibly belong to anyone. and if you hear a screaming across the sky don't worry that's just my way of dealing with the fall of the Crystal Palace.

I have just finished it and came straight here. Love the fact you mentioned the humour early on. If it wasn’t so outrageously funny i would have given up long before p776.

If you want to drill down into the absolutely obscene depths of this book, the time it was written in, the political implications and everything in between, listen to almost any episode of Death Is Just Around The Corner

Gravity's Rainbow is a novel like Trout Mask Replica is an album of pop songs.

I was gutted when I learned that the Inherent Vice movie was a flop, as I thought it was amazing.

Such a good review! I would love to read this book somewhere this year. Thanks for the recommendation.

A friend of mine wrote a recipe for banana mead into the margin of my copy. The list might become grotesque, but that mead is goddamn delicious.

Thanks for catching the humor in GR. It's both deadly serious (Nazis, V2 rockets, the Herero, etc.) and funny...black humor and slapstick. I've read the trifecta. Both Ulysses and GR are tremendous works and have humor. OTOH, Infinite Jest is a depressing book with, literally, one foot in the grave, and not anywhere close to belonging with the other two. Shakespeare also used low humor.

Not my favorite of his but definitely his most important. You should check out Mason & Dixon. It's a lot warmer and one of the few instances of him having characters that aren't just idea vehicles, which I don't mind, but it rubs some people the wrong way. You mention that you had a conversation with your wife about why Slothrop doesn't get erections after the bomb drops. That's the whole book! Reaction before the stimulus. It's everywhere throughout the novel, the most blatant being the rockets exploding and then the sound happening after. Glad you enjoyed it.

Im currently reading against the day!! Cool

Damn Cliff every time I lax back into bad sci-fi books you push to go beyond my comfort zone.

Proud of this one, this is pretty much everything I'd want anyone curious about GR to hear. I'd rec Crying of Lot 49 as a breather if you're curious how he could do something just as ambitious in 150 pages. And Bleeding Edge if only to feel what it's like to actually get most of the cultural/period minutiae he packs in his novels.

_Ha!_ I've yet to read _Infinite Jest._ (I'd rather stick w _Finnegans Wake_ !!!!!) My fav Pynchon novel is _Against the Day._ Thanks, Cliff.

He gets erection before the rocket hits (as opposed to after) because Jamf deconditioned him "beyond the zero" hence royally fucking up all standard notions of cause before effect. This book is truly a masterpiece, great review

Gravity’s Rainbow is incredible! If you get chance though, Mason & Dixon is something else. That’s my favourite of his so far! What a book that is. As an aside/request, would love to hear a review of Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass... another book that stays with you

Gravity's Rainbow is my "one book on a desert island" read.

My favorite line is “you are no longer who the Cesars say you are”

Absolutely agree with your approach of only reading like 5 pages a day and doing some research on the stuff he writes about.

There was a rainbow here in Oakland the same day I read Slothrops final chapter. Obviously They couldn't help Themselves.

I just received a fresh Copy of Faulkner Absalom, Absalom as a Valentines Gift from my Lady. I watched your review a couple weeks ago and kept telling her about it. So your Reviews give me free great Novels!

Greetings from China^^ Tonight is Chinese New Year’s Eve, I guess watching this video is one of the best ways to celebrate it, what an achievement to actually read and finish that thick book, I’ve got it sitting on my shelf for years lol. Anyway happy new year!!

I swam halfway through this book in college before I gave up and drowned. It's a great book!

As a resource for everyone that wants to tackle GR-even if it's not your first tour-I cannot recommend strongly enough the podcast Death is Just Around the Corner. The episodes he made on Pynchon and GR in particular offer a lot of useful tools to understand the book. The Pynchon in Public Podcast is good too but it's more like the experience of hearing people just as lost as yourself trying to figure it out together, while Michael Judge-the host of Death is Just Around the Corner-really gives you the idea of knowing what he's talking about (partly because he himself is a kind of Pynchonian character-you'll know what I mean if you listen to the podcast).

I'm making my first pass through it using Audible, which I don't usually do for my more serious "reading." Audio is great for light books, in the background while I'm doing stuff. But maybe it was a good idea. When I sit down to read the hardcopy and concentrate, I won't be so shocked, afraid I'm slipping into psychosis.

I read it. I enjoyed the experience. It is not necessary to comprehend something to get pleasure from it. I’d say I understood 75%. The next time I read it things that were obscure will, I believe be clearer.

My first couple of hours with this book I felt as the saying goes lost in the sauce but I have since then assimilated to it's style I'm really enjoying the heck out of it.

Really excited to see you got to reviewing this one, its one of my favorites! Is that the new NYRB version of The Recognitions behind you? Looks just like the copy I recently purchased. Hope to see a review of that at some point as well. Thanks for the great videos.

It's just incomprehensible to imagine how Pynchon came up with some of those incredible sentences.

Infinite Jest was no problem; I loved it. I get interested in a certain author and I read everything they've written. Even The Pale King was great. But I just could not get into Ulysses. So, I decided never for that one. Gravity's Rainbow, I'm on the fence about. Maybe I will reconsider. I could give it 5 pages a day, even though I'm not that kind of reader. I start a book and read as much and as long as I can everyday until I'm done. I'll try it and see how it works. Thanks for the suggestion. If you've read the Alexandrian Quartet by Durrell, please do a review!

Damn, you're convincing me to try again. That description of reading something that perfectly mirrors an ineffable experience you've had really reminds me of my experience with Proust - are you planning on reading him anytime?

I was obsessed with this book all through my twenties but refused to read it because I couldn't get a copy with the Jackson Pollock-esque cover. Glad I held out because at 38 years old I feel I'm ready to take this book on.

After you take a breath, Against the Day is nearly Gravity Rainbow’s equal, if not surpassing it in some ways.

Never been this quick to a video!

The reason Slothrop gets boners BEFORE the rockets strike, is explained to be tied up with pavlovian response and the stages that occur in the lab when pushed beyond stimulous-response. Also: like the SCREAMING from the V-2 sonic boom; it can only be heard seconds AFTER the detonation.

I suggest you check out Will Self's 'Phone'. Quite similar to Pynchon in rhythm, but thoroughly different in language, characters and the overall milieu of his prosaic universe. Will Self is absolutely brilliant.

Hats off, sir. I'm hella intimidated, but I'm going to give it a go. I've only read his Crying of Lot 49, which I thought was fucking excellent, but I might try V or Inherent Vice (which seems to get a lot of flack) before jumping into this. I've asked my local bookstores to give me a shout as soon as they get a copy of any of his works - we don't seem to get much of his stuff here in Cape Town. Looking forward to joining the rest of these madmen on this journey =). Oh and needless to say, GREAT fucking review man.

The Banana Breakfast is hilarious - as is the British Candy scene...

Your analysis of this novel is as powerful as your stache.