FYI we are extremely lucky to have good audiobook versions of all three of Pynchon's big novels:<p>Gravity's Rainbow (George Guidal)
Against The Day (Dick Hill)
Mason & Dixon (Steven Crossley).<p>I highly recommend Pynchon, you have to relearn how read when reading one of his more dense works. It is a demanding experience in letting go of your expectations, need to understand and general framework for reading normal books you have probably relied on most of your adult life. The work of unlearning and relearning how to read is a reward in itself but additionally Pynchon is just so much smarter, more well rounded, and politically conscious than similar Big Dense Novel writers.<p>Take for example how Pynchon focuses so much on the Herero people and the genocide Germany inflicted on them (in 1904-1908) in a novel about WW2 (Gravity's Rainbow). It feels anachronistic and unrelated until you step back and see Pynchon's argument about war, colonialism and whiteness venting off the brutal inhumanity of Europe until one day it inevitably came home. This has become a much more popular way of framing WW1 and WW2 as time has gone by (because it is the right one) but Gravity's Rainbow was written in the 70s long before people were really talking about things this way.<p>Pynchon in my opinion diagnoses the sickness and violence at the heart of western society and tracks how it evolved into a globalist structure of business in the 20th century better than almost any other writer.