Speaking of lists...

[Michael Richard]

obPynchon:  In preparing for the Next One, I have been reading
some blurbed novels, starting with _The Verificationist_ by
Donald Antrin, and _Been Down So Long, It Looks like Up To Me,
by Richard Farina.  Is there a handy list anywhere?  Seems like
some Joseph McElroy novel is Pynchon blurbed...

(His doorstopper is Men and Women - weighs in at 1192 pp.)


On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I love these occasional interludes on the List 
> where everyone's recommending (or warning against) books. 

Me too!  I joined this list and many others for just that
purpose, although there are additional riches beyond counting 
here in the focus on Pynchon.  I miss the usenet group rec.arts.books, 
back before it was googled and filled with spam.  There's an
attempt at a facebook version, but these clumsy hacks at
social networking haven't zeroed in on transparency and
ease of use. 

I have a spare mailman list I am changing into yet another
attempt.  There are three of us right now, and no conversation yet,
but if you're interested, I imvite one and all to come
for conversations which mught stretch the definition of
pynchon-l (or wallace-l or gaddis-l or whatnot-l.)

http://dvandva.org/mailman/listinfo/chooseart


> [...]

> Being in one of those moods lately, 
> I've retreated to a modest-sized doorstopper (500+ pages, 
> although in very small print):  Armadale, by Wilkie Collins.  
> I'm enjoying the escape (I loved his better-known The Moonstone).  

	I recently read The Moonstone.  I enjoyed it, but the
central action stretches my credulity. I just don't believe the
gentleman would have acted in such a fashion under such an
influence.  

> [...]

> Laura
> 
> And while I'm talking pre-modern (post-pre-modern?  
> I have no idea), Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, is a lot of fun.

	I loved Ivanhoe; Waverly left me blank, and Rob Roy
is next, since I tilted at The Antiquitary drove me to reading
something thoroughly modern after the first few pages.


	veg