top tens: enough teasing

Fri Sep 17 20:15:18 CDT 2004

After reading this list, I'd have to revise my own that I 
submitted....   There's so many great works here that I read, 
appreciated and then forgot.... some, though inarguably well written 
were just too traumatic and/or repulsive, (for example _Blood_ 
_Meridian_ ),  but other's  I simply misplaced in my mind....   This 
list has included many books that I've meant to read but never've gotten 
around too.  At any rate I've got a start on my reading/rereading list 
now.   Thanks, everyone!!!!!

                                                                  Glenn 
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>>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
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>>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
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>>ps. if you see any errors in titles or authors please point them out
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>>thanks,
>>David Gentle
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