Is The Great Gatsby the Great American Novel?

[Mark Kohut]

Since this thread is where all the fun is, it seems....here's the REAL challenge...
don't just ADD whoever you think I missed......
 
Limit to, but do, your own real Top Ten........who do ya drop? (Morris w a Faulkner, which one?, to replace Warren is a truth
fer sure) 
I know some of you would drop AtD so do it.....

From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: malignd at aol.com 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
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Found One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest more daring. 
Greater and more American, too.

And Flannery O'Connor couldn't write rings around Hammett. 

And I seem to remember that nobody mentioned Everybody's Autobiography or anything else written by Gertrude Stein?




2013/5/5 <malignd at aol.com>

To pitch in another suggestion -- Sometimes a Great Notion
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>Probably because none of these are called great by anyone in the USA. Rushdie, a double immigrant, but only to London, then to nyc, where, an understanding of America is, while not impossible, certainly idealized, in the romantic sense because nyc is an immigrant's world, where, unlike the immigrant experience in Europe, immigrants have great success, are not the poor rural masses who find rigid classes, but are skilled to educated working to professional class, and in a generation, are in th middle of it all, are New Yorkers, as Rushdie said in a recent interview, in no time. So Rushdie is right to say that he bothers who bombed boston were the dark side of this success story, or what their uncle called them, losers.  
>On Sunday, May 5, 2013, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:
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>>Three novels which haven't been mentioned yet:
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>>Tender is the Night (Fitzgerald)
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>>VALIS (Dick)
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>>The Runaway Soul (Brodkey)
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>>None of these is perfect, but each one is - as Rushdie wrote in his review of The Runaway Soul - "worth a hundred safe little well-made books." For my understanding of America these novels are very important.
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