# Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

2 Hacker News commenters recommended Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Few readers recommend it, and the quotes mainly link it to Nabokov's work. One critic found its characters and plot lines annoying or disgusting.

## Why people recommend it

- Linked to Nabokov's Sebastian Knight (1 comments): "Gravity's Rainbow by Nabokov's student at Cornell who in a previous work "borrowed" Nabokov's Sebastian Knight" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385497))

## What people warn about

- Characters and plot lines annoyed or disgusted (1 comments): "a lot of the characters and plot lines just annoyed or disgusted me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920781))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/crime-and-punishment.md): 39 recommend
- [The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brothers-karamazov.md): 28 recommend
- [Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/infinite-jest.md): 26 recommend
- [The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://hackerapproved.com/p/great-gatsby.md): 24 recommend
- [Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atlas-shrugged.md): 23 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0099511754?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780099511755) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gravity-s-rainbow/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).