Gravity's Rainbow/YMMV


 * Award Snub: The Pulitzer Prize committee awarded the book a prize in 1974, but were overruled by the Pulitzer board, who called it "turgid and overwritten."
 * Pynchon did this in reverse when he won the National Book Award, sending Irwin Corey to accept the award in his place.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Freeing Der Springer from a German prison by crashing an ocean liner into it.
 * Squick: Where to start?
 * Used Symbolically, no less!
 * True Art Is Angsty: The only coherent unifying themes are death and paranoia.
 * True Art Is Incomprehensible: In terms of scope, chapters skipping across time and place and the general weirdness
 * Viewers Are Geniuses: Arguably even more so than with Pynchon's other novels.