What next?

[Tom Beshear]

Most people will say GR. I'll put in a word for M&D as the most joyous of his work. It was my first Pynchon novel and it has always stayed with me. Joy is present from the GR allusion in the first sentence ("Snow-Balls have flown their Arcs...") to the last ("We'll fish there. And you too.") But GR, yes, you must read GR -- the mountain must be climbed, more than once.


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Doc Sportello 
  To: pynchon -l 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 9:12 AM
  Subject: What next?


  My first Pynchon was when I read ATD 4-5 years ago and liked it. Read Inherent Vice when it came out a couple years ago and liked it. Just finished Bleeding Edge and LOVED it. I don't know what the consensus is on his latest but it's my fav of the three.


  I'm interested in reading it all now since I hear These last three are ostensibly different than his earlier stuff. I'd like to save Gravity's Rainbow for last since I hear it's the best. Given all that, what do you guys recommend I read next? 
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