Comparison of Pynchon's Fiction and Non-fiction

While reading Pynchon's article, Journey into the Mind of Watts, I found that it was much easier to comprehend than The Crying of Lot 49. His fiction was very well worded and not just trains of thoughts thrown together. I also realized the point he was trying to get accross to his audience a lot quicker. The point being that the majority of people from Watts are stereotyped as criminals, failures, or just plain stupid, but they are never given a chance to prove themselves otherwise. Pynchon's compassion for these people in Watts is very obvious in his article, but in his non-fiction it took a lot of thinking to establish what he is really trying to say about Oedipa.