I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
“I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.”
“For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.”