Me too. Luckily, I bought it at a garage sale. Now some poor soul probably bought it at Goodwill after I gave it up.
A couple of Martin Amis novels are on the list. I just cannot get into him. Or Tolkien either, for that matter.
((( Shudder )))
I actually read that one cover to cover. Was that a best seller? I can't believe it? But then, of course, I can't belive Bill Clinton was elected president - what do I know?
On the other hand, I did read The Bell Curve cover to cover in 1994. That was a real eye opener. There's been nary a day since that I haven't seen some connection to human behavior and its relation to I.Q. scores as posited in that book.
I think that Vineland is one of those books that people, who fancy themselves placed much farther to right on the bell curve than they actually are, read and pretend that they understand. They're probably the same people who voted for Bill Clinton and encouraged those who are placed on the left side of the bell curve to do the same.