Fwd: A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Mark Kohut]

This one's for Kai.....he can refute and I want to read his refutation:

Lawrence Buell in his book on The Great American Novel sez that
the weakest, of its dated time, aspect of Gravity's Rainbow is
the Tarot stuff........


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From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:27 AM
Subject: Re: A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels
To: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>


I'll play. Contrarian.

1) Gravity's Rainbow, (perfect; so powerful) Against the Day (loose
baggy monster but EVEN RICHER)
3) Mason & Dixon.....by a nose and leads when I am reading it, trying
to feel it.
4) Crying of Lot 49
5) Bleeding Edge
6) Vineland
7) Inherent Vice.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:21 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Gravity's Rainbow
> 2. V.
> 3. Bleeding Edge
> 4. Vineland
> 5. Against the Day
> 6. Mason & Dixon
> 7. The Crying of Lot 49
> 8. Inherent Vice
>
> On 21 Jul 2015 8:39 pm, "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1. Gravity's Rainbow
>> 2. The Crying of Lot 49
>> 3. Mason & Dixon
>> 4. V.
>> 5. Against the Day
>> 6. Vineland
>> 7. Inherent Vice
>> 8. Bleeding Edge
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
>> <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > 1. Gravity's Rainbow
>> > 2. Bleeding Edge
>> > 3. Vineland
>> > 4. The Crying of Lot 49
>> > 5. Mason & Dixon
>> > 6. V
>> > 7. Against the Day
>> > 8. Inherent Vice
>> >
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