/lit/ - Literature

So I started reading Pynchon with V. But couldn't really follow it at all, so I dropped it with around 100 pages left of it.

For some reason I wasn't put off reading one of his more recent books classified as 'pynchon-lite', Inherent Vice, and I'm loving it. It might be because I understand the references immediately and don't have to keep a dictionary on hand for every second word but I'm really enjoying it.

I'm wondering if anyone under the age of twenty who reads as a hobby/pasttime has been able to enjoy vintage Pynchon? It just seems like I needed to have grown up in the time it was written to truly grasp what he's trying to say.

Also, would I be likely to enjoy mason and Dixon, or is my not enjoying V. A sign that I won't?