Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Tara Brady]

Nightwood ggod. But no Gatsby surely?


On 5 May 2013 01:06, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:

>
> Like T.S., I go for Nightwood.
>
> H.J.
>
> On Sat, 4 May 2013, Monte Davis wrote:
>
> > Eudora Welty
> >
> > -----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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > > 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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