growing V-list

[Mark Kohut]

And some others feel the same way---Not I, said Beckett----and a few do,--a nice vote given all the choices. Maybe some who were not here for that read
are the most eager?.  don't matter.  

So, the counterweight votes SHOULD carry a lot of weight, I say.......the revoting and elimination of low votegetters allows this---ATD (and other) negatives--- to carry weight, since Laura, say, might vote for almost all others hereon---including V.---before AtD. In second and later votes. 

I would rather have Laura's enthusiasm for whatever,--- and she is only a posting example of all/any of us----than another AtD read carried by a few as it
sputters and fades. 

Wouldn't you? 



----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 12:29:50 PM
Subject: Re: growing V-list

We had a group read here of ATD three years ago.  I'm personally not ready for another.  I'd rather group-read V.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 17, 2010 12:20 PM
>To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: growing V-list
>
>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
>
>
>