"I'd call 'Bleeding Edge' Pynchon's best work since his epochal masterpiece, 'Gravity's Rainbow.'" http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Letters-to-the-editor-Sept-29-4850797.php (I'm 230 pages in and must disagree. More about it later.) Heikki - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l