growing V-list

[Mark Kohut]

Hell, Laura, not much kindness at all, imho...just the plain truth......or plane truth? 

Anyway, disagreeing with you is better when you are engaged.  Smile. 

As with so many. "Ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall"....and maligned.

So, get everyone else to vote soon and often. 

VOTE EVERYONE! 


 


----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 1:34:47 PM
Subject: Re: growing V-list

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
>
>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
>
>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
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>>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...
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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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