Enormous Room vs Gravity's Rainbow: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Soldiers, Americans, World War, Biography & Memoir, Fiction
Enormous Room
"Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), famously known as E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, essayist, painter, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays…
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Gravity's Rainbow
Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Enormous Room is the quickest read — about 4 hours vs 21 for Gravity's Rainbow.
- Gravity's Rainbow has the widest readership — 49955 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Enormous Room | Gravity's Rainbow | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (49955) |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (4) | 3.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (8) | 4.0 (175) |
Reception
| Enormous Room | Gravity's Rainbow | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 8 | 49955 |
| Editions | 75 | 44 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 137 |
| Reading it now | — | 2 |
| Written reviews | — | 3 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 31785 |
| Pages | 248 | 1160 |