growing V-list

Emma Wrigley ecwrigley at excite.co.uk
Tue May 18 13:49:41 CDT 2010


I'm thrilled to know that you're not counting literary atrocities
against me; I remember reading Danielle Steel out of desperation in
Moscow back in the 90s. Admittedly I only got as far as page 10 or
thereabouts (I then found a copy of Mason and Dixon), but it still
counts as atrocious.

Emma
<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Joe Allonby [joeallonby at gmail.com]
>Sent: 18/5/2010 5:46:17 PM
>To: brook7 at sover.net
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: growing V-list
>
>Casting a bullet vote for Bulgakov.
>
>On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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