Literary Potency

I am reading Ray Bradbury's "Somewhere A Band Is Playing" and "Leviathan '99". These are massive. I may need to take months off reading afterwards just to allow it to sink in. Especially as I was alternating my reading with stints of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I just need to throw in a few passages of James Joyce and I will be applied definition of literary potency.