I wonder-- Re: 10 Favorites

[Will Layman]

Simon --  I respect your right not to make a list because "great worlds of
art are beyond comparison," but then you DON'T get to snipe at the list
makers for not including a work that you think deserves to be on the list.

w

On 9/16/04 8:16 AM, "Simon Bryquer-RR" <sbryquer at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> At last someone has mentioned Lowry's 'Under the Volcano'.  I'm beginning to
> wonder about the literary inclinations of the present frequenters of the
> P-list. 
>  
> I don't make lists, even with the rationale of favorites,  because great works
> of art are beyond comparison. Great novels assert themselves uniquely and for
> different reasons as different seemingly forever evolving and self-revealing
> entities. If they don't they're probably not that great.
>  
> Did anyone out there ever read 'It Happened in Boston' by Richard Greenan?
>  
> SCB
>  
>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Nb49 at aol.com
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:26 AM
>> Subject: 10 Favorites
>> 
>> 1. Ulysses  James Joyce
>> 2. Under the Volcano  Malcolm Lowry
>> 3. The Magic Mountain  Thomas Mann
>> 4. Gravity¹s Rainbow  Thomas Pynchon
>> 5. Moby Dick  Herman Melville
>> 6. One Hundred Years of Solitude  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
>> 7. Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey
>> 8. The Border Trilogy  Cormac McCarthy
>> 9. Geek Love  Katherine Dunn
>> 10. Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
>> Criteria:  Susceptibility to repeated readings.
> 


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