Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[David Morris]

Seconded.

On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Jeff Sunbury wrote:

> Flannery O'Connor for Wise Blood.
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> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net');>
> > wrote:
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>> 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
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>>
>> Bekah
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>> On May 4, 2013, at 11:50 AM, kelber at mindspring.com <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', '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 <javascript:_e({},
>> 'cvml', 'eburns at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>> > Lolita
>> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>> > From: kelber at mindspring.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'kelber at mindspring.com');>
>> > Sender: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'owner-pynchon-l at waste.org');>
>> > Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 11:23:40 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>> > To: <pynchon-l at waste.org <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'pynchon-l at waste.org');>>
>> > ReplyTo: kelber at mindspring.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> '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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