P-lists...

[David Casseres]

That Curt sez

>Seems like the 'list' portion of the Pynchon list has taken control.  At 
>the beginning of the year we had the 'what I'm reading now' lists,  Now a 
>month later we have top tens (how about some top hex - why stick with 
>base 10?).
>
>'I don't want to list names because lists are a form of cultural hysteria.'
>Don DeLillo in Paris Review, 1993
>
>PS.  How about more GRGR, please.

Yes yes yes you're right.  But before I go I've just got to add to my 
previous quasi-list, which was

>The Odyssey; Hamlet; The Oresteia; Gravity's Rainbow; Ulysses; Moby-Dick; 
>Huckleberry Finn; Look Homeward, Angel; Sometimes a Great Notion; 
>Catch-22; One Hundred Years of Solitude.

A-and now I want

The Tent of Miracles (Jorge Amado's best by far); The Feynman Lectures on 
Physics; Finnegans Wake; Freedom or Death (the only Kazantzakis I've 
liked); Chimaera (Barth's masterpiece); Doctor Faustus (Mann's); The 
Satanic Verses; V. (another multiple); Labyrinths.

A-and then there's that *other* list, the books I know I gotta read 
before I die.  Some of them I've previously started but not finished, 
slow reader that I am; these are long books:

War and Peace; Don Quixote; Remembrance of Things Past; The Brothers 
Karamazov; The Iliad.

OK, maybe that gets the lists out of my system.


Cheers,
David