Made it about 250 out of about 400 pages, tapped out. Kinda dull and dreary and mostly lifeless, two murders felt boring, and and oncoming revolution felt tedious; and the tension between wildly implausible "science" and grittily realistic social fiction led to a Total Disbelief Collapse. Also the sound of axes on stones was the loudest thing in the book.
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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
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