Another novel list then

[Bekah]

At 5:38 PM -0400 8/11/05, MalignD at aol.com wrote:
><<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?>>
>
>I think it's likely to yield few surprises.  Melville, Henry Adams, 
>Robert Musil, Gaddis, Joyce, Stephenson, DeLillo, Gibson, Gilbert 
>Sorrentino, Nabokov, Farina ...
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First, I tend to agree on some of the books  but instead of the 
general  list being so rank and  orderly,  it might reflect a general 
sense of a  "if you like Pynchon you might like:  ____________" 
list.

Second,  there might be an extra woman or two mentioned this time. 
(Doris Lessing,  Ali Smith,  Byatt, Woolf, others).

Bekah