In a message dated 11/23/1999 4:11:50 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I recommend starting out with "Vineland" or "The Crying of Lot 49", although my favorite is "V.". >> If you're ambitious and want to be frightened to death, read "V," and then "Gravity's Rainbow". V is kind of a prelude to Rainbow, and Rainbow is just the most perfect piece of literature in the English language. Loring Wirbel Monument, Colo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]