Famous first and last lines no.1

"A screaming comes across the sky."

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr

 May 8, 1937 (age 78)

is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His Fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of History, music ,science and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National book reward for fiction.

A lengthy, complex novel featuring a large cast of characters, its narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World war two and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 Rockets by the German military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device named the "Schwarzgerät" ("black device") that is to be installed in a rocket with the serial number "00000".
Traversing an immense range of knowledge, the novel transgresses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics.

If I had to read this book I probably wouldn’t understand anything in the book. Because it says its complex and confusing and to be honest I think I would rather not read this book if I’m not going to understand it.