/lit/ - Literature

Hello. I'm a non-native English speaker and I haven't had much trouble with English books up to now. The most struggle I had was with Americana (DeLillo), and using dictionaries for the vocabulary and Google engine for references eliminated almost all of the difficulty. Now, I tried starting on Mason & Dixon and it feels impossible to go on while comprehending. I don't even get half the words, why they are capitalised (a reference to the era?), and I easily lose track of sentences (hell, I spent minutes to be able to understand the first one).

So... What should I do? Give up on Pynchon? Live in America for a few months? Get somehow smarter? Read more books and return?