Another best novels list

[Will Layman]

Anything we do to distract us from the discussion of Pynchon's sophomore
year laundry lists is OK with me.

Perhaps we should even take TRP off the list entirely.  Where does
everything else fall in our view?

I'm already considering whether GREEN EGGS AND HAM should be sixth or
seventh  . . .

-- Will

On 9/14/04 9:33 PM, "David Gentle" <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com> wrote:

>> I'd be game, but I suspect that a lot of the usual suspects, minus of course
>> Rand, Clancy, King and Grisham, would show up.  Note however that the
>> Wallace list did something like this, based on the Humiliation game, and it
>> turned into a huge sprawling list where everyone seemingly tried to outdo
>> everyone else.  (I'm proud to say I put _Hypnerotomachia Poliphili_ on the
>> should've-read list before _The Game of Four_ was published.)
>> 
>> What's the unusual mechanism?
> It's not that unusual actually. Rather than everyone just nominating their
> favourite I imagine
> everyone offering up a top ten and points being alloted for position. So
> number 1 in your list would
> get 10 opints and number 10 would get 1 point Points are added up and the list
> is assembled. This
> way we don't get a list that reads:
> 
> 1: Gravity's Rainbow
> 2: V
> 
> and nothing else.
> 
> whaddaya say hepcats and kittens?
> 
> David Gentle
>