30 Best, Since 50-A Duel

[Cal McInvale]

>1.  Gravity's Rainbow, TRP
You wouldn't dare post here without this one at the top, eh?

>9.  Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut
Are you high? What about Slaughterhouse 5?

>10. Them, Joyce Carol Oates
Please. You put Oates in the same universe even as Pynchon, Gaddis, or Vonnegut?

>11. Something Happened, Heller
No way. Catch-22.

>13. Advertisements for Myself, Mailer
No more than one Mailer book per customer, please.

>14. Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey
Not even Ken would agree with this.

>16. Jazz, Toni Morrison
Have you not read Beloved or something?

>21. Neuromancer, William Gibson
You're really asking for it, aren't you?

>22. The Gospel Singer, Harry Crews
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

>29. An American Dream, Mailer
[Uniformed security guard appears from stage left & points a gun]
Put the Mailer book down and raise both hands into the air!

>Flail away.  I can take it.
Are you saying, "Whip, beat me, make me read bad lit?"



Cal McInvale       e-mail:  godot at wolfe.net
WWW: http://www.wolfe.com/~godot/index.html
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What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not
the still photographs of finished character but the movie, the soul in
flux.  -- Thomas Pynchon