top tens: enough teasing

[kent mueller]

Astounding! Even for a beta list. We seem to be devoid of Scientologists and
Ayn Rand geeks mucking up the polling; it actually looks like a list of some
of the best works of literature. Thanks, David.

Kent Mueller

Visit KM art's web site at http://www.execpc.com/~artkm/

> From: "David Gentle" <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 20:22:50 +0100
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: top tens: enough teasing
> 
> Before I show you the list please remember that it is not at all too late to
> post your own top ten.
> My software makes it very easy to add new lists. I'd appreciate it if all the
> main posters (and
> possibly the list founders) either participate or clearly state their desire
> not to. Those of you
> with multiple list identities might want to use them to get some of your
> "nearly books" into the
> chart (just don't make it so obvious that I have to disqualify your lists).
> All aspects of the
> mailing list should be represented. Lurker's submissions are very welcome.
> Don't be intimidated by
> the deep philosophical texts in this list; if your favourite book is "the cat
> in the hat" then feel
> free to stand tall and proud with your list held tightly in your hands and say
> so...
> 
> Beta top X list (<position> <title> by <author> <points>) :
> 1 Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 175
> 2 Ulysses by James Joyce 69
> 3 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 49
> 4 The Recognitions by William Gaddis 49
> 5 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44
> 6 Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon 37
> 7 JR by William Gaddis 35
> 8 The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 30
> 9 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 25
> 10 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 23
> 11 Absalom! Absalom! by William Faulkner 20
> 12 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 20
> 13 Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 20
> 14 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie 19
> 15 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie 17
> 16 A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust 17
> 17 Ada by Vladimir Nabokov 15
> 18 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 15
> 19 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 14
> 20 You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann 12
> 21 Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany 12
> 22 V by Thomas Pynchon 11
> 23 Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch 11
> 24 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 11
> 25 Independent People by Halldor Laxness 11
> 26 Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabel 10
> 27 The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 10
> 28 If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 10
> 29 Vineland by Thomas Pynchon 10
> 30 A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick 10
> 31 Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco 10
> 32 Molloy by Samuel Beckett 10
> 33 Auto-da-Fe by Elias Canetti 9
> 34 Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 9
> 35 Roadside Picnic by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky 9
> 36 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 9
> 37 Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin 9
> 38 The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass 9
> 39 The Castle by Franz Kafka 9
> 40 The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 9
> 41 Candide by Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire 9
> 42 Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 9
> 43 A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion 8
> 44 Neuromancer by William Gibson 8
> 45 The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 8
> 46 Molloy/Malone/Unnamable by Samuel Beckett 8
> 47 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 8
> 48 Watt by Samual Beckett 8
> 49 Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer 8
> 50 Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler 7
> 51 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 7
> 52 USA by John Dos Passos 7
> 53 Ubik by Philip K. Dick 7
> 54 Hall of Mirrors by Robert Stone 7
> 55 Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin 7
> 56 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolfe 7
> 57 Journey to the West by Anthony Yu 7
> 58 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein 6
> 59 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 6
> 60 Underworld by Don DeLillo 6
> 61 The Night (Alone) by Richard Meltzer 6
> 62 House of Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata 6
> 63 Rabbit stories by John Updike 6
> 64 The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene 6
> 65 Bleak House by Charles Dickens 6
> 66 The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren 6
> 67 Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson 5
> 68 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 5
> 69 The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 5
> 70 Dune by Frank Herbert 5
> 71 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 5
> 72 Always Coming Home by Ursula LeGuin 5
> 73 Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson 5
> 74 Chimera by John Barth 5
> 75 Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis 5
> 76 The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell 5
> 77 Dreams of Leaving by Rupert Thompson 5
> 78 World's End by T.C. Boyle 5
> 79 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 4
> 80 Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers 4
> 81 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 4
> 82 Don Quixote by Cervantes 4
> 83 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4
> 84 On The Road by Jack Kerouac 4
> 85 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 4
> 86 Libra by Don DeLillo 4
> 87 Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 4
> 88 Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey 4
> 89 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick 4
> 90 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 4
> 91 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian 3
> 92 Death On The Installment Plan by Louis Ferdinand-Celine 3
> 93 The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy 3
> 94 The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 3
> 95 Frank's World by George Mangles 3
> 96 The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 3
> 97 Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth 3
> 98 Infinate Jest by David Foster Wallace 3
> 99 Beautifull Losers by Leonard Cohen 3
> 100 Beloved by Toni Morrison 3
> 101 Geek Love by Katherine Dunn 2
> 102 Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2
> 103 Call It Sleep by Henry Roth 2
> 104 What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe 2
> 105 Weave World by Clive Barker 2
> 106 The War at the End of the World by Vargas Llosa 2
> 107 Revolutions Trilogy by John Banville 2
> 108 The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers 2
> 109 The Confidence Man by Herman Melville 2
> 110 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 2
> 111 Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 2
> 112 The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 2
> 113 Women and Men: a novel by Joseph McElroy 1
> 114 Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec 1
> 115 As Above, So Below by Rudy Rucker 1
> 116 Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 1
> 117 The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 1
> 118 Waiting for the End of The World by Madison Smartt Bell 1
> 119 White Noise by Don Delillo 1
> 120 Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone 1
> 121 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson 1
> 122 Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel 1
> 123 Valis Trilogy by Philip K. Dick 1
> 124 Time Enough For Love by Robert Heinlein 1
> 125 Lampiere's Dictionary by Lawrence Norfolk 1
> 126 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry 1
> 127 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis 1
> 128 The Secret History by Donna Tartt 1
> 
> ps. if you see any errors in titles or authors please point them out
> 
> thanks,
> David Gentle
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