Srice posted:

Pynchon owns bones and imo just read Gravity's Rainbow and power through it even if (especially if?) it's not making sense because there are so many incredible individual scenes that can be appreciated even if you're having trouble understanding it as a whole.

Even if you don't get what's going on you can read something like, say, Slothrop tasting awful British candies and enjoy the absurdity of it being written like a torture scene.