Reading Pynchon on vacation?

[Dave Fischer]

>From _Mexico_ by Alice Adams:

One problem, making this impossible situation worse, was that I was
out of books to read; a part of my all-around poor planning for this
trip was a failure to bring along more good, long books.  And
Cynthia's assortment was odd:  _Gravity's Rainbow_ (I had read this
once before under better - in fact under very good - circumstances and
found it very hard going indeed; it would have been impossible to read
Pynchon in Tuxtla).