books every intelligent person should read

[Erik T. Burns]

because it let me "into" Nabokov by way of the magical Zembla and the
most unreliable Kinbote, rather than via the hurf durf snicker snicker
that Lolita seemed to encourage in my peers. I got to read Lolita as a
novel in its own right by a cunning linguist rather than a
brown-bagged curio. I absolutely adore Lolita and have read it often,
same as PF. I am just happy I read them in that order, and not the
other way around.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:43 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> Why was this good fortune?  Both books are wonderful.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>; Charles Albert
> <cfalbert at gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us>; P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 3:16 am
> Subject: Re: books every intelligent person should read
>
> I second that emotion. I had the good fortune to read Pale Fire _before_
> Lolita._
>
>   Original Message
> From: Mark Thibodeau
> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 7:30 AM
> To: Charles Albert
> Cc: Erik T. Burns; Michael Bailey; P-list
> Subject: Re: Re: books every intelligent person should read
>
> I've read Pale Fire, and I loved it.
>
> YOPJerky
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hasn't anyone here read Pale Fire?
>>
>> love,
>> cfa
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> mine would include _J R_ and _The Dog of the South_
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Michael Bailey <mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:
>>> > Per Jacob
>>> >
>>> > ---Infinite Jest needs to be on here. That book made me love
>>> > writing.---
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > - OK but what are your other nine (-:
>>> >
>>> > (Mine is already at 10 & although I liked ij, I'm disinclined to bump
>>> > any to
>>> > make room --- maybe put IJ as Alice's #9 but need to go ask
>>> > alice....but
>>> > ms
>>> > malice I think was looking for a bouquet of top tens which is always
>>> > fun,
>>> > why not add one?)
>>> >
>>> > - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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