Larry McMurty on P. From an early-enough essay on The Screenplay

[Mark Kohut]

"The true-born reader will forgo all manner of easement in order to
keep chipping at the hardpan of the most resistant texts. I am only one
man, and yet I know three
people who have read the corpus of Hegel, and two who even claim to have
finished Thomas Pynchon's
*Gravity's Rainbow."*

One must have been Susan Sontag, with whom he was friends. She read it and
argued it did not rise above science fiction.