great American novel

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Very nice selection, but I agree with Mr. Haney: Gaddis must be represented. 
JR, perhaps. A good satire on capitalism and life in the last century. 
Wait...you did mention Catch-22, maybe A Frolic of His Own.

Farina is a great choice. What about (for both paranoids and philosophers, 
if there is a difference) Nausea? For a survey course, Heart of Darkness and 
a video of Apocalypse Now. I showed it to a class after reading H of D. In 
the last minutes of the flick, one of my students asked, "Why's it so dark?" 
She got an A.


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Subject: RE: great American novel


>I know we're not doing desert island lists, but given a chance to say
> teach a survey class, I'd want to use --
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> Parables for Paranoids:
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> Moby Dick, Herman Melville
> Letters from Earth, Mark Twain
> Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
> Catch 22, Joseph Heller
> The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
> Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina
> Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
> A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
> Straight Man, Richard Russo
> Mason & Dixon, Thomas Pynchon
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