Archived DMs

“so much depends upon a Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch Chat Thread glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.”

In last week’s comments, so-called “Bill” made the excellent suggestion that we use this week to give folks a chance to catch up, rest, recuperate. Consider this “The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch Picnic in a Trench by the Side of the Road.” Enjoy the break and use this thread for bookly comments. I’ll post a chat … Read more

“You best start believing in chat threads for Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarches, Miss Turner; you’re in one.”

Welcome to Week 4. We’re holding pretty steady with something close to 20 people still on the march. Not bad at all… Most of us, me included, are a little bit behind. My current strategy is to catch up by skipping every other word on pages 250-300. We’ll see how that goes. The comments flew … Read more

Hi, Per the previous entry, this is the spot to post re the latest chunk of Gravity’s Rainbow. For chat, please scroll down to the next entry below. Note: And for completists, don’t forget to take a stroll through the first batch of comments this week, over in the original Week 3 thread. Thankee, -Cecil

Hi, Here’s an experiment — I enjoy the banter, but I don’t want it to keep us from actually talking about the book. If we had threaded comments, we could prolly do both together, but in this one-big-stew approach, I’m not sure. So howzabout we use this entry as the bantery and chat thread… And … Read more

Well, we started this venture with an astounding 35 or so folks out the gate. And inevitably, people are beginning to tumble off the trail. (Well, we wouldn’t call it a deathmarch if it was easy….) At this rate, by my calculations, -5 people will finish the journey. But what’s math, right? A poor predictor … Read more

Welcome to the end of week 2! This is the place to comment on (roughly) pp 50-113 (p/v). That said, as last week rolled on, a lot of people dropped comments past the mark, to keep up with what they were reading that day. I thought that went great. So in the course of this … Read more

I’d like to try opening a new thread on Week 1 of GRDM — we have 26 comments on the first thread and it might help us to start fresh every 20 or so comments. So if you’ve got a comment to add on the first batch (or so) of GR pages, please starting posting … Read more

Welcome to the end of week 1! Got any insights on the first 50 pages? Advice for the weary? Complaints about bunions? If you’re on the march, this is the spot to share, to care, and to shout out. (I should also say, for them what’s interested in qualifying toward Poobah status and fabulous GRDM … Read more