Between the highly surrealistic writing and the twisty plot I just couldn't put this book down. Reading Erickson is a rare treat that should be indulged often. Heyen, a former professor of mine, is a fantastic poet. Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow Gravity's Rainbow is perhaps the most important novel to appear since WWII and is certainly one of the great novels of all times. It is a staggering work that absolutely resists categorization.
Bottom line is that it is an important novel.
It influences much of what has come since it was published. Like many of the other books here,I got into Vollmann in the usual way. For more information on Vollmann visit my Unofficial William T. Vollmann home page. William T. Vollmann unofficial home page.