No there's three of us here, my Life was changed irrevocably when I was got an adult library ticket and could get 6 books from the adult section of the town library at the age of 13 being young My first six books were mostly 60's sci-fi some Heinlein and some Jack Vance, but also included, Pynchon's The crying of Lot 49 and Woolfes The electric kool-aid acid test. Things havent been the same since

I did find Gravitys rainbow hard, and it took me a couple of attempts to read it, but I was only about 14 at the time. and I didn't come across V till a few years later. MAson & Dixon is sitting on the unread section of my bookshelf waiting till i'm in the right mood to tackle it.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.