Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Ian Livingston]

Aye.



On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:31 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seconded.
>
>
> On Saturday, May 4, 2013, Jeff Sunbury wrote:
>
>> Flannery O'Connor for Wise Blood.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 BlackBerry® 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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