You post character names. We'll guess the book/movie/play/TV show.

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139. Ok, now I'm remembering.

I have read the book, but it was a fair few years ago. Yes, Slothrop. Roger Mexico was my favourite character though. Since then I've been meaning to read all of Pynchon's books, but I haven't had a lot of time for pleasure reading, nor the mind-set for things that involved. Still after having read the large novels, apart from V., I kinda gave up halfway through The Crying of Lot 49. It suddenly seemed "of a style" and didn't interest me so much anymore. I digress...

I don't know that Gravity's Rainbow could be made into movies... never mind the NC-17 rating, at best. I did hear some chatter about Inherent Vice being adapted, but even that's a stretch.

I didn't know that Gravity's Rainbow had been reviewed by Scientific American, but I'd like to know what they thought of it. I imagine he gets a lot of the details right - he was a mathematician who served in the armed forces. Still, I know that he flubs some history - whether on purpose or not, I don't know. He puts ukuleles in all of his books, having them exist at times when they did not (none at all during Mason and Dixon's time, and not for more than 100 years, and there certainly weren't ukulele orchestras at the Chicago world's fair, the instrument having just been invented, with the baritone ukulele not being invented until the 1960's... sadly, this is a topic that I do know about).