Gravity's Rainbow

I've recently come across a fertile source of ebooks and was elated to discover that Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" was amongst them. I've been searching for this book for quite some time. It's widely regarded as a "difficult" book, akin to James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake", but I'd come across some intriguing references to it and had managed to read an excerpt in Google Books. The little that I'd read there inclined me to read further and now I can. I'll have to choose my time. Some people have been known to sit down with this book and keep reading non-stop until they've finished.

My fertile source contains many books that I recognised and some of which I'd already read. At first I thought that it was just a collection of someone's personal predilections but then I happened upon Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2006. Most of the books on that list are in this collection and so with the number of my ebooks growing by the day the prospect of an iLiad becomes even more appealing.