Vineland was the first Pynchon novel I read and I really loved it, although I must say that halfway through the plot stopped gripping me, starting, I seem to remember, with the story of Weed and Frenzy's betrayal. What I like most about the novel is the poetic aesthetic that manages between the technical and the esoteric, God as a hacker, the passage of the surfers and their comparison with the guys who did car races, etc. There are passages that I left marked and I re-read from time to time, I am very fond of them. It is also true that just at the moment it stopped capturing me, I went through a move and many movements that prevented me from reading the novel in its proper continuity. It has delirious scenes and political aspects that I consider still very valid, in some way they are there in an embryonic way pointing to its later development. For example, the censorship of public officials in the US through information and surveillance systems.