Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

[Dave Monroe]

I began my online ranting career over that very
question.  But the Modern Library put a bullet in the
forehead of their own online forum, so ... so if you
think things occasionally get crazy here ...

--- Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Friday column at the blog 'Conversational Reading'
> 
>
http://www.conversationalreading.com/2006/12/friday_column_w.html#comments
> 
> "Whether panning or praising Pynchon's new novel,
> many reviewers have seen fit to adulate him as
> though his status as a living legend is mere common 
> sense. I happen to think it is, but this critical
> reception is strikingly at odds with The Modern
> Library's list of the top 100 English-language
> novels of the 20th century. On that list you will
> not find Pynchon anywhere.
> 
> Why didn't Gravity's Rainbow make the list? ...


 
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