My only regret in reading Vineland was that I did not read it in a shorter period of time. Without doubt, it is a much more approachable book than Gravity's Rainbow. It has a fairly simple, well-threaded plot, and relatively few main characters. It is a very humorous novel, though much of the humor is black in nature. Pynchon's stream-of-consciousness style is full of beautiful detail, but is difficult to follow at times, and I doubt that he will ever be one of my favorite authors.