Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Like T.S., I go for Nightwood.

H.J.

On Sat, 4 May 2013, Monte Davis wrote:

> Eudora Welty
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of Bekah
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:52 PM
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
>
> Yes to those Laura mentioned plus:
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> Edith Wharton for The Age of Innocence
> Toni Morrison for Beloved
>  Zora Neale Hurston for Their Eyes Were Watching God Kate Chopin for The
> Awakening Pearl Buck for The Good Earth Jane Smiley for The Greenlanders
> Alice Walker for The Color Purple
>
>
> Bekah
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>
>
> On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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> > My Antonia - Willa Cather
> > The Dollmaker - Harriet Arnow
> > To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (much beloved, though lacking in
> subtext)
> >
> > Haven't read Edith Wharton, so don't know if she belongs.
> >
> > Personally, I think Gatsby doesn't hold up in this day and age. If
> anything, the impending, glitzed up Luhrman (sounds like lurid) confirms my
> opinion.
> >
> > Laura
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alice wellintown
> > Sent: May 4, 2013 2:36 PM
> > To: pynchon -l
> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >
> > Say Fell-uzz, howz about puttin a lady on, dat dare list use is may kin?
> Aint we got nothin to say what use boys finds worthy of readin wit he same
> set of eyes as use read wit when all those macho authors is concerned?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Ian Livingston wrote:
> > Covers my take on Gatsby:
> http://skreened.com/daydream/ain-t-no-party-like-a-gatsby-party
> >
> > And where's Papa?
> >
> > I'd need more contemplating time to make a list....
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:31 AM, <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Lolita
> > Sent from my BlackBerryR wireless device
> > From: kelber at mindspring.com
> > Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 11:23:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> > ReplyTo: kelber at mindspring.com
> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >
> > USA - Dos Passos
> >
> > LK
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Morris
> > Sent: May 4, 2013 11:20 AM
> > To: Mark Kohut
> > Cc: alice wellintown , pynchon -l
> > Subject: Re: Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?
> >
> > A faulty list doesn't include Faulkner.  And I don't think All the King's
> Men fits this league.
> >
> > On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
> > Great American Novels:
> > Moby Dick
> > Huck Finn
> > The Great Gatsby
> > The Scarlet Letter
> > The Grapes of Wrath (?)...does anyone ever reread?
> > All the King's Men
> > Portrait of a Lady
> > Invisible Man
> > Augie March or Herzog?
> > Gravity's Rainbow
> > Against the Day
> >
> > 11 of a top 10 list...(I guess Steinbeck would have to be dropped but that
> feels not just to the Joads.
> >
> > Argue and creat your own list, Plisters.....
> >
> >
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