Ep 319 - Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon

Overdue

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

What can be said about Thomas Pynchon's postmodern classic Gravity's Rainbow? Well, it's nearly a thousand pages long so what CAN'T be said, am I right??

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	So where, over the rainbow, I forgot my ukulele hold on.
0:55.0	I was going to say if we both read this book, then we could have started with some kind
1:02.8	of double rainbow goof.
1:04.6	But it was only you read it.
1:07.9	So it's more of a single rainbow.
1:10.3	Oh, a single rainbow.
1:12.3	Single rainbow.
1:13.3	Remember that one?
1:14.3	Remember that hit YouTube video.
1:16.4	Welcome to Overdoot.
1:17.4	It's a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read.
1:19.7	My name is Craig.
1:20.7	My name is Andrew.
1:22.2	And this week we are talking about Thomas Pinchens gravity's rainbow.
1:28.2	It's been a long time coming.
1:30.6	Specifically my time reading this book.
1:33.2	It's been a long time since we said we would read the book.
1:39.6	And then it took a long time to read the book.
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