I don't care which

[Mark Kohut]

earlier Pynchon novel we read. I just want to start reading soon(with all our group intelligence). I just want to have ALL THAT I can from his earlier books in my head for the new one.

Since the above refuses the hard choice, I vote for "Vineland" if we must have only one at a time.

Which, however does lead me to another once-expressed notion: We are the best (readers). We have so much collective memory and density and pov's. Like a wide self-organizing chorus. 

Maybe, maybe, I know it's hard for most, but why can we not have multiple P reading threads going on at once?. We have lots of multiple threads going on in general. Most of us are rereading, not just reading, the earlier works. TRPs work is all of a thematic piece, with differences like wave theorists wrestle with, so the more we read, the more we understand?

Solves the question of what to read next: we can follow the thread of the one we want to read next if we can't follow more. We will just clearly indicate the book on our subject lines.

What think ye'all?