i've read both gravity's rainbow and atlas shrugged, and found both to be worth reading, but gravity's rainbow was immensely denser and commensurately more intr

i've read both gravity's rainbow and atlas shrugged, and found both to be worth reading, but gravity's rainbow was immensely denser and commensurately more intriguing, if also frustrating. atlas shrugged is as straightforward as to kill a mockingbird or the handmaid's tale in its plot and messaging, and worth the read in for similarly straightforward reasons. gravity's rainbow seems like it was strained through the multiverse of everything, everywhere, all at once and spit out linearly fractalized. it's challenging to say the least. tolkien, on the other hand, i found so boring as to never have been able to finish even a fraction of any of his books.