growing V-list

[Mark Kohut]

Thanks for your work,esp.Joseph; your wit, naturally, in doing this.

Picking up on Henry's post,-- I, too, as I've written (in another one of mine you've skipped. Smile), think we have to eliminate
and vote more than once-----or else, with such a fine, long list, the "winner" will probably be a very minority choice...

If many feel Against the Day, say, or another IS JUST NOT RIGHT for this read for whatever reason, I'd rather rechoose another...
plenty of good ones here, of course, we are the plist and if a shorter different newer writer has a lot of enthusisam, I'd rather 
read that with lotsa others' thoughts than my choices......(I know what I think, except when I don't, and I like thinking through others'
observations more than I like circling around my own thoughts. Usually. ) 



----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 9:47:12 AM
Subject: growing V-list


D0N'T FORGET TO VOTE! THE IDEA IS TO CHOOSE A BOOK FOR A GROUP READ. IF YOU CAN E-MAIL, YOU CAN LEGALLY VOTE, REGARDLESS AND IRREGARDLESS OF YOUR PARTICULAR NUMBERS, COLOR/S, GENDER/S, LITERARY ATROCITIES, PRE-EXISTING CONDITION/S, NATIONAL ORIGIN, PLANET OF BIRTH, OR BAD HABIT/S.      3 BOOKS IN ORDER.

Nabokov- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Melville- Moby Dick
Melville- Confidence Man
Chabon- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Henry Roth- Call it Sleep
Charles Portis : Dog of the South
Dashiel Hammet The Maltese Falcon
Alfred Chandler: The Visible Hand; The Managerial Revolution in American Business
Pynchon: V
Pynchon: Against the Day-
Raymond Chandler : Farewell My Lovely
Bulgakov: The Master and  Margarita
Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
Wurlitzer: Nog
Bolano: 2666
Henry Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
Joyce: Ulysses
Heller: Catch 22
Ellison: Invisible Man
Ned Beauman: "Boxer, Beetle"
Charles Portis: Masters of Atlantis
Charles Portis: Gringos
Calvino: Invisible Cities
Chesterton: The Man Who was Thursday
Norbert Weiner : Cybernetics
Bellow: The Adventures of Augie March
Nathanael West: Miss Lonelyhearts