Another novel list then

[Sean Mannion]

darn it!

Forgot to change the 'To:' bit to 'list' again! Sorry folks!

Thinking about the scope of reference in Pynchon's works, and the fact that 
he's writer way way outside of what Vonnegut would term the "writing about 
the tradition of writing" school, would it be an idea to broaden the scope 
of such a list to reflect this? to include other mediums (by a yard-stick of 
works referenced and influenced in/by pynchon, works similiar in theme, 
other cultural marks --- within reason)? Other novel list might be a bit 
more-of-the-samey, if you know what i mean...


Cheers,
Sean



>From: kelber at mindspring.com
>Reply-To: kelber at mindspring.com
>To: David Gentle <gentle_family at btinternet.com>,        pynchon-l 
><pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Another novel list then
>Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:52:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
>When's the deadline?
>
>---Original Message-----
>From: David Gentle <gentle_family at btinternet.com>
>Sent: Aug 11, 2005 9:20 AM
>To: pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Another novel list then
>
>I guess there was some consensus that the last top novels list did not 
>serve
>any useful purpose so I propse another one.
>This time I want you to come up with the novels that you consider to be
>essential for a Pynchon reader (other than Pynchon's novels themselves). 
>You
>can propose any number as long as you keep it reasonable. This time you
>don't have to specify an order. Just come up with a list you're happy with
>(that won't take me an age to type in).
>Summary:
>List of novels.
>Any number so long as it's not that many.
>No rankings necessary.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Thanks,
>David Gentle
>
>