One Hundred Best American Novels

[Rebecca Lindroos]

I really enjoy most of Cater's books. I've read Death Comes For the Archbishop, The Professor's House, My Antonia and The song of the Lark (and that's probably my order of preference).

Bekah

> On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:29 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
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> I enjoyed My Antonia when I read it as a young teenager. It seemed a more adult follow-up to the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Don't know how it would seem to me if I was approaching it for the first time now.
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> Laura
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>> From: alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com>
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>> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: Re: One Hundred Best American Novels
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>> I guess it depends on why one elects to read Cather. The trilogy is
>> still there, in book stores, on Midwestern and Mountain State
>> bookshelves, where, foreigner tourists and domestic ones take her up
>> with Cowboy and Indian fictions and poetry, Pioneer, and Western
>> stuff,   though I suspect the short stories  would provide quite
>> enough of her themes and style for a reader looking to get her down
>> with a spoonful of honey.  That is, taken in her context, before the
>> Great Depression, she pens a fine American short tale.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Am I crazy or is reading Willa Cather literally impossible in this day and age?
>>> 
>>> Based on numerous name-drops by Garrison Keillor, God help me, I've
>>> tried. But I can't. I just can NOT read her books to the end.
>>> 
>>> J
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>>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:30 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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