Speaking of lists...

[John Bailey]

For blurbs, scroll to the bottom of ...
http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_biblio.html

Don't know how up-to-date that is, though. Missing a few.

I'd avoid "The Haunting of L", which P blurbed. Very disappointing novel.
"The Testament of Yves Gundron" was ok but nothing great.

On 11/21/08, Michael Richard <veg at dvandva.org> wrote:
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>
> 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:
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> > 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
>
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