I'm probably the only person I know who has read V and Gravity's Rainbow, Except for a book dealer I know, whose place of worship is like 'Black Books', but 10 times more cramped with tomes.A little vertical mambo is required to reach his perch behind the till. I was there yesterday with surplus-to-requirement softbacks of the above-mentioned. He grabbed them immediately out of a bag of such no longer needed stuff such as Horses and horseriding (from 1928), Elvis, Whitaker's Almanac 1973 and humour books from Alan Coren and the like. I could see in his eyes that he knew the Pynchon's well, and that acquisition of these softbacks was his chance to indoctrinate others ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
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.
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