growing V-list

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Shucks, Mark, that's very kind of you.

LK

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 17, 2010 1:10 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: growing V-list
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>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.  
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>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. 
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>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. 
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>Wouldn't you? 
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>----- 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
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>We had a group read here of ATD three years ago.  I'm personally not ready for another.  I'd rather group-read V.
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>Laura
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>-----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
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>>Thanks for your work,esp.Joseph; your wit, naturally, in doing this.
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>>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...
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>>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. ) 
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>>----- 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
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>>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.
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>>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
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