worthy of a peek

[John Bailey]

No, I can't believe this at all.

My theory is...

The lists were compiled at bookstores and universities. So they could be 
what teachers/bookstore foax THINK students most like (ie talk about 
loudest) or what students SAY they most like, meaning something extremely 
different, as in the way I talk about Ulysses to people in positive terms 
and I haven't even finished it. Not to pick on the book, but it's not for me 
right now. I've got an acquaintance who says she's waiting till she's 60 or 
so to read Ulysses, or at least until she's read absolutely everything ever 
written anywhere, whichever comes first, so that she at least has a chance 
of fully understanding Joyce's book. I thought she was barking up the wrong 
tree, but told her to read Gravity's Rainbow straight afterwards.

>From: "Tim Strzechowski" <dedalus204 at home.com>
>To: "Pynchon-L" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: worthy of a peek
>Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 21:57:36 -0600
>
>The 20th Century Novels Students Most Like:  Ulysses????
>
>I KNOW they can't mean high school students!
>
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>"Unquiet meals make ill digestions."  -- Shakespeare


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