You miss a lot that way.
You may not know you miss it, but there you go.
Ayn Rand has this much in common with Thomas Pynchon: they both have readers who either hate or love them, and they have produced only several books (as opposed to two score or more, like Nora Roberts or R.L. Stine), almost any one of which can double as a doorstop.
That alone might be inducement for you to sample Pynchon. Critics' opinions are both more and less than they appear.