50 best cult books

[grladams at teleport.com]

Yeah, no Illuminatus!? Gah! Well I saw this one and got my interest sparked
-- calvinist devilish doppelganger:

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
(1824) 
A Calvinist convinced of his indefectible election to salvation is led to
acts of murder by Gil-Martin, his devilish doppelganger. More a myth than a
religious satire, it vividly survives James Hogg's not entirely
satisfactory manner of recounting it. Consider this: there may be a
Gil-Martin near you. CH 



Original Message:
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From: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:00:38 -0700 (PDT)
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: 50 best cult books


Speaking of chance, roulette, gambling and Reef/Yashmeen. See this one from
the list"
  The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (1971)

  Blame a burgeoning mistrust of conventional psychiatry for the immediate
impact of The Dice Man – a novel whose hero, a disillusioned psychiatrist,
vows to make every decision of his life according to the roll of a die. As
one might have expected from the times, chance sends him into violence and
anarchy, which also explains the book’s enduring appeal. AC 
  

rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
  no Under the Volcano? bah...

rich

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling
wrote:
> http://tinyurl.com/4bj8nf
> (c) Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008
>
> Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
> Europe-hopping comic metanovel of war and power, stuffed with maths,
> shaggy-dog stories, childish humour and ravishing sentences. And lots
> of rockets. Genius, though long enough to lie unfinished.
>
> --
> AsB4,
>
> Henry Mu
>


       
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