Fw: most beautiful novel opening

[Tim Strzechowski]

>
> Any veterans on here remember ever participating in or organizing a
> groupread of a novelist who's not TRP on here?/


For a decade now, I've subscribed to four listserves:  Milton-L, which used 
to be quite active and has in the past few years dribbled down to about a 
posting a month; Ishmail, a Melville listserve that is somewhat active 
depending on the topic (but often dominated by a pretentious prof who 
constantly hawks her one and only book); and Dickns-L, a modorated list that 
is perhaps the most scholarly of the three.  And the P-List, obviously.

Of these four, we're the only ones who have done organized group reads.

Several years ago, however, I came across a James Joyce listserve that was 
attempting to read one page of _Finnegans Wake_ per week.  An intriguing 
idea, but that was way too slow for my liking.

http://www.urich.edu/~creamer/milton/pl.html

http://www.melville.org/ishmail.htm

http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=DICKNS-L&H=LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU