most beautiful novel opening

[Henry]

Ummm... how about "V?"  

I've been rereading GR, and by now, after repeated reading, GR still amazes
me, and I find more in it the easier that it has become for me to read, but
the last time that I read V, I felt that I still hadn't sufficiently
penetrated it's heart.

HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

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From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net

          Daniel Julius:
          I would be very interested in a Moby Dick 
          group read after ATDTDA. Does that sound 
          like something you other folks might like?  
          Don't know if it'd be as divisive as Pale 
          Fire...but.  And I guess it could be
          harder to maintain stringent citational accuracy, 
          as there are one million different editions of the 
          book out there...but.

I'm keen on a Three-month jog-trot through 'The Crying of Lot 49', what with

this heap of Pynchon & Co. material piling up. Right after or during that 
examination of the Company's books we need to take a closer look at Marge 
Simpson's 'The Harpooned Heart' and in particular, the Homer & Marge Simpson

collaboration on "Who Killed JFK?". After The Harpooned Heart group read
we'll 
be ready for Melville.