Does Pynchon Produce Only 'Masterworks'?

[Carvill, John]

People can go ahead and get bored!

I take your point, but I think I could easily conunter your argument by saying, look, V. is (structure-wise) just a bunch of tenuously connected episodes, jumping randomly around from one time period and location to another, and you could quite easily shuffle many of the chapters around with no real positive or negative effect on the coherence of the book as a whole. 

If I were escaping the proverbial burning building, and having harvested a mumber of other Pynchon books, had to quickly grap either V. or Vineland just before I dived clear of the flames, it would be a tough call. For what it's worth, I found V. an incredibly tough read first time round, certainly it was the hardest to read of all P's books, for me. A second reading was easier, but by then I'd read ll Pynchon's other books.

<<People are going to get bore with this conversation, but here goes anyway.
 
V's structure kept changing centers, in locations, times and main characters, constantly.  The most constantly changing character being the many incarnations of V. and her myriad of different stories and locations.  And one's not too sure that they are one being until the end (and even then they can hardly be literally so).  But even with all these characters and stories, nothing ever seems extraneous. 
 
VL by contrast, is mostly a chronological story centered around one family with numerous flashbacks and a few secondary characters and their stories and histories.  Seems pretty straightforward to me.>>