best/favourites list details

[Joel Katz]

well, i start with my hunnerd points and they all goes to:

consensual sadomasochism, dr. don bilgoons

and you can sop up the blood with dem gaddis tomes if ya' like.



>From: kent mueller <artkm at execpc.com>
>To: David Gentle <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: best/favourites list details
>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:51:20 -0500
>
>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
>
>Visit KM art's web site at http://www.execpc.com/~artkm/
>
> > 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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