best/favourites list details

[kent mueller]

My Top Ten, Starting with favorites:

1. The Recognitions / William Gaddis
2. JR / William Gaddis
3. Gravity's Rainbow / P
4. V. / P
5. Naked Lunch / W S Burroughs
6. Carpenter's Gothic / Gaddis
7. On The Road / Kerouac
8. Death On The Installment Plan / Celine
9. The Confidence Man / Melville
10. A Frolic Of His Own / Gaddis

Kent Mueller

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> From: "David Gentle" <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 21:16:47 +0100
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: best/favourites list details
> 
> I've written a piece of software to collate all this stuff so I can get the
> results together quite
> quickly but it's a bit pointless if nobody plays along.
> A few requests:
> Please make lists of no more or less than ten novels if you want them included
> (the software only
> likes top tens).
> Please put them in order so the points sytem works. It might make things more
> interesting to start
> with a fixed number of points and then to dole them out to whatever books you
> like but that's a bit
> too complex for my liking. Maybe if we try again.
> Please also include full author names (so I don't have to look everything I'm
> not familiar with up).
> Please put the Pyncher in your lists so that we don't get complaints when the
> final list is unveiled
> about him "not even being in the top ten".
> I know the rules seem arbitrary. That's because they are. The whole point of
> lists like this is
> arbitrary rules. If you don't like that idea then that's fine but please don't
> complain about the
> position of your favouritest thing in the final list if you haven't
> contributed yourself.
> Okay? Okay.
> 
> David Gentle
> 
> 
> 
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