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I nominate Faulkner’s ‘Absalom, Absalom’...

I never tried that one, but The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying were certainly hard enough to figure out.

Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow also didn't seem to have much of a point.

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Pynchon got more readable later. Mason & Dixon is totally enjoyable. The cleverness is there but not obtrusive. For instance, he doesn't use dialogue tags as we know them, yet you always know who's talking.

I love his little trick at the very end of the book where he purposely confuses the reader as to who is speaking. His point being, I thought, that by that time the division between them no longer mattered.

When they meet up with the Indians, hilarious.