So I finally completed Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon. I am definitely looking for a less difficult read at this point. I considered starting on The Chinese Maze Murders on spec, but it looks like the book club winner is still up in the air. That Maze Murders wins is the only reason I would want to read it right now, so I decided to start on The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess; another splinter from The Great War and Modern Memory. This required a special order outside my local library system, it arrived yesterday and is actually quite short.