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Violanthe
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 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pinchon
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 12:26 pm |
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Look at the following cover. Imagine that you have only the cover and the information it provides (including images, title and author name) to decide whether to buy this (or any) book.
Would you buy this book having looked only at its cover? If so, what on this cover sold you? If not, what on this cover turned you off?
If you have, in fact, bought and/or read this book, tell us how well our verdicts guided us. Did the cover lead us rightly into great fiction? Or did the cover wrongly steer us toward a bad story or away from a great one?
So, would you buy this book by its cover?
Regular posters are invited to join our "official" Buy the Cover game:
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Peter
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:11 pm |
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I'd read it without hesitation simply because it's Pynchon. No cover, IMHO, can do justice to this guy's writing. They'll all be misleading in their own way,.the story does feature rockets, but I won't give anything further away.
The cover would indeed lead you to great fiction, at least I think so. |
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Nik
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Er, no...
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:29 pm |
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| I'd read some, first. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:15 pm |
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| A nice cover. I'd read the back first but then I might buy it. |
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Peter
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:54 am |
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You might be happy to know it's not futuristic. It's set toward the end of WW2.
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Peter
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:47 pm |
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Well, it's debatable if this book is SF by any definition. Most critics call it "metafiction" which seems to mean whatever they want it to.
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:11 pm |
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| It's been a long time since I've read it, but I did enjoy it, but it is not an easy read. I like challenging work, and GR is very dense, almost surreal at times, and reminiscent of stream of consciousness like James Joyce. |
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Violanthe
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:02 am |
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| Quote: | | Well, it's debatable if this book is SF by any definition. Most critics call it "metafiction" which seems to mean whatever they want it to. |
I dated a guy once who wrote metafiction. He tried to explain it to me a couple times, but I can't say that the explanation ever sunk in.
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