GRAVITY'S RAINBOW finished yeah

As you know I love to read and I will read just about anything, but if I was an editor of this book I would have probably asked for a minimize the book. About the author Thomas Pynchon: He was born in 1937 and educated at Cornell University. He was in the US Navy and worked at Boeing Aircraft Corporation. First Novel published in 1963 and he is still writing his latest novel according to Wikipedia is called BLEEDING EDGE and was published Sept. 17, 2013. It is only 496 pages. He is hard to find, likes his privacy. These are notations I have found in Wikipedia. GRAVITY'S RAINBOW was written and published in 1973 I have to say that this book made me look up facts, were these cities real, was this kind of psychic and psychological thing done during WWII. I am not that familiar with specifics of WWII except what I have read or what is always mentioned, D-Day, certain battles, the key players, the holocaust, etc. Gravity is the actual name one of the woman characters has, it is actually I believe what she calls herself. But does this book relate to that, in the later chapters we get all these color connections, but does the title relate to that. The main focus of the book is a rocket, who is the rocket, there are times that it seems that actual people are the components of the rockets. There is a character who I have mentioned in previous blogs whose name is SLOTHROP, he is being monitored because he is somehow linked to the rocket hits sexually. But later in the book, I get the feeling that he is actually, made up of robotic parts, that he is only part human. That he has been altered, in the last chapters (if you can say chapters), this character is talked about being taken apart and placed in different locations. This is also what is happening to the last rocket in the program. So I see a parallel between the two. The Rocket seems to be mentioned both sexually and scientifically. Many references are made to the rocket by the men in the book. So if I was sitting in my literature class during college we would look at the symbolism of the Rocket and sexuality. It seems when rockets go up the male anatomy goes up as well, when rockets are not working neither is the male counterpart. There is a lot of overt sexuality in this book, maybe too much to my liking. It somehow distracts me from what I want to know, is Slothrop a rocket or part of a rocket? The book takes us on a journey that seems to be Slothrop based, but is also about various other concepts. The espionage, conspiracy, Hitler, psychological warfare, mathematics, mechanics, sex, race for the power of the Rocket, psychic phenomenon, and a myriad of other things that have to do with WWII and its aftermath. This Journey starts with WWII but has references to JFK later in the book. So it is about time and how key players during that time continue into the future with a dismembered Slothrop and rocket. The places are real Peenemunde is actually where rockets were produced during WWII. Swinemunde was close by and according to Wikipedia the USAAF, did bombing raids and the refuges on this island were killed, about 5000 to 23,000. I have no way to verify this. Anyway, it made me look up other things especially about the divisions sited in the book, the psychological and psychic aspect of this time period. I knew that in Germany that there were medical and other weird experiments done on mostly Jewish populations but also on other Prisoners of War. But the US and Russians also did some forms of experimentation, mostly in the area of psychological warfare. However, I also found during my very brief research that after WWII, the Russians also were experimenting with Psychic connections after they heard that this was being studied by others. They tried this with people on land trying to communicate with submarines. I believe this book should be read and analyzed but I do not have the time I would like to take to figure it out. It took me forever to read it. I could have done without the sex scenes. Thomas Pynchon is very descriptive, and I do not mean just the sex scenes. You could be taken to these places, this is a very visual book. I think that if the type had been bigger this would be a thousand page book, but my eyes would not have suffered so much at the small print. So why the title: The rainbow is and arch, gravity pulls things down, physics shows us the arc projectiles, so the rocket would follow the arc of this rainbow being pulled down by gravity. Or the gravity of the war pulling us down from the sunny rainbows of color to the dull, drab realities of war. The END.