i haven't read lot49, but i enjoyed gravity's rainbow. and V. also.

unfortunately that didn't help me one bit in trying to trudge through mason & dixon. i reallyreally wanted to read it, but it was just an impossibility... every few pages I'd fall asleep. kind of like stephenson's quicksilver haha...

movie in question was too asia-phile for me :9 kinda turned me off the director.