voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20

[Mark Kohut]

Seconded...which is partly why I voted as I did.....

Yet, we should also, in my opinion, deal with those basic book club things.....
the deepest reasons books matter, have insight and will---or won't---last when
they are done with originality.....with new situations, meanings and ....whatever....



----- Original Message ----
From: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
To: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 8:28:51 AM
Subject: Re: voting to date , Polls close midnight May 20

Also: can I be annoying and make a brief campaign speech?

We here at the P-List have never been that big on straight-up
book-club analysis - why did this character choose to do that thing?
What are the themes of this book? What is the author trying to say?

But this hive mind is a frickin' ripper at locating extra-textual
references, resonances, historical sources, literary allusions,
off-the-wall speculation and on-the-money jokes. This kind of stuff is
what makes the list so enjoyable for someone reading Pynchon but I
think things would get pretty quiet if we read a novel that doesn't
lend itself to any of this. Partly why I was against a group read of
2666 (or Kavalier and Clay) - they're big and pretty readable but I
they're not thick with things that need discussion.

I think most of the contenders on the list below probably are, on the
other hand, but maybe something to keep in mind.

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:21 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some extra ballots added to the Master List below.
>
> Emma W.: 1) Suttree 2) Augie March 3) V
>
> Ray Easton: 1)Invisible Man, 2)Ulysses, 3)Miss Lonelyhearts
>
> Alex Colter: 1)Against the Day 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Ulysses Alex 2nd
> ballot:.- 1)V 2)Miss Lonelyhearts 3)Mumbo Jumbo
>
> Joseph Tracy :Farewell My Lovely, The Master and Margarita, Mumbo Jumbo
>
> Keith: 1)Nabokov- Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle 2)Wurlitzer- Nog
> 3) McCarthy- Suttree
>
> Robin Landseadel: 1) 2)and 3)Farewell My Lovely
>
> Laura Kelber: 1)V. 2) Education of Henry Adams 3) Invisible Man
>
> Mark Kohut: 1)V, 2) Invisible man, 3) Augie March
>
> Scott Jones: 1) Mumbo Jumbo, 2) Cybernetics, 3) Man Who Was Thursday
>
> Heikki Raudaskoski: Education of Henry Adams, Invisible Man, V
>
> Aarnoud Rommens: 1. The Master and Margarita, 2. Calvino - Invisible
> Cities 3. Pynchon - Against the day
>
> Henry M: 1. Farewell, My Lovely, 2.  Mumbo Jumbo, 3. Ulysses
>
> Joe Allonby: 1. Master and Margarita
>
> Charles Albert:1) A Cool Million 2) Farewell My Lovely 3) The Man Who
> Was Thursday
>
> John Carvill: 1) Augie March 2) Invisible Man 3) Farewell My Lovely
>
> alice: 1. Invisible Man 2. Moby-Dick 3. The Education of Henry Adams
>
> Jon Bon Bailey: 1. Invisible Man 2. Moby-Dick 3. V.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:49 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. Invisible Man
>> 2. Moby-Dick
>> 3. The Education of Henry Adams
>>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:
>>> My early vote seems to have lost most of its temporal bandwidth. So, amended slightly, here it is again:
>>>
>>> 1) Augie March
>>> 2) Invisible Man
>>> 3) Farewell My Lovely
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>