Another best novels list

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 06:25, James Kyllo wrote:
> Excluding Pynchon (GR would be 1 and V around 8)
> 
> 1.    JR - Gaddis
> 2.    Auto Da Fe - Canetti
> 3.    Watt - Beckett
> 4.    USA - dos Passos
> 5.    The Recognitions - Gaddis
> 6.    100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
> 7.    Naked Lunch - Burroughs
> 8.    You Bright and Risen Angels - Vollmann
> 9.    The War at the End of the World - Vargas Llosa
> 10.    Life: A User's Manual - Perec
> 
> and there are at least another 10 which belong in my top 10 too


Interested to see Dos Passos' USA trilogy making your top 10. Not
surprised, just interested. Fifty years ago it was still highly regarded
enough by the experets to be sometimes used in college lit courses.
Probably no more. But what do the experts know? I recently picked up one
of the volumes and read a little for old times sake. Enjoyed
refamiliarizing with the unusual narrative style.