Lists of favorite things

[Bekah]

It was horrible the first time - I virtually always finish books but I couldn't finish Confederacy, it was so stoopid.  The proverbial pointy sick might have been easier to take - funnier, anyway.

Bekah


On Aug 3, 2011, at 6:57 PM, malignd at aol.com wrote:

> Confederacy of Dunces is awful.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
> To: Elaine M.M. Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com>
> Cc: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net>; pynchon-l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, Aug 3, 2011 3:43 pm
> Subject: Re: Lists of favorite things
> 
> I find that Hesse gets better with time, actually.  Think I would
> concur on CITR though I haven't read it years.  Always hated CoD and
> never got what the fuss was about.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Elaine M.M. Bell <elainemmbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Books that didn't weather time:  anything by Hesse, agreed on Confederacy of
> > Dunces, and the big win of not-outlasting-adolescence goes to CATCHER IN THE
> > RYE!
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8/3/2011 2:41 PM, Lawrence Bryan wrote:
> >>>
> >>> How a bout a variation on that list. Books or movies one liked on first
> >>> viewing or reading but on second go around left one wondering what one saw
> >>> the first time.
> >>>
> >>> I'll start with two that quickly came to mind. Close Encounters of a
> >>> Third Kind, A Confederacy of Dunces.
> >>
> >> Good idea.
> >>
> >> One of my biggest letdowns was "Spellbound."  Loved it when released
> >> including the haunting theme music.  In fact I loved all psychiatrist
> >> movies.  Freud was big in the forties.  Now  . . . .
> >>
> >> P
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Lawrence.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Someone needs to cite some favorite books, movies, music lists to reboot
> >>>> the p-list.
> >>>>
> >>>> It works every time.
> >>>>
> >>>> P
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
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> > Have Laptop/Will Travel
> > (but wicked good to be back in Massachusetts)
> >
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