Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

[gp]

I would just like to point out that Hell's Angels, by Hunter S.
Thompson, is a part of the Modern Library list.  Why GR is not and
this is (though Hell's Angels is a damn good read) is beyond me.

At my school I know that there is one class that read excerpts of V.
(I meant to email the professor, perhaps I will soon) and another that
read Entropy (I had a party recently and one member of the class
attended - she loved the story so I gave her my beaten copy of GR -
she told me that everyone besides her hated it though the professor
did attempt to defend it).  I am done with classes and can say,
however, that not once did I encounter any sign of Pynchon, or any
other sort of "postmodern" literature besides, perhaps, Norwegian Wood
(if you can count it such) in a Japanese lit class.

As a student recently relieved of his studently duties, however, I can
say that unless you happen to meet this one drunk guy at a party with
a mandala tattoo talking too much about this long ass book about
rockets and erections, you aren't going to hear about Pynchon in
college.

On 12/8/06, MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com> wrote:
> Another reason for not teaching Pynchon (and for why COL49 is the one most
> taught, it appears) is size (of book) and time (one semester).  I would think,
> if I'm correct, one would find a similar absence of The Recognitions or JR.
>
> Of course, there's the counter-example of VN at Cornell assigning Bleak House
> and Ulysses, among other works, in the same course.
>