A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[James Robertson]

AtD is a blast. Some of his best sentences
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 at 11:46 pm James Robertson <james at themutedposthorn.com>
wrote:

> 1. GR
> 2. CoL49
> 3. MD
> 4. AtD
> 5. V
> 6. IV
> 7. BE
> 8. The Recognitions (haha)
> That said, for sheer fun, I'd pick up IV anytime.
> James
>
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 at 11:31 pm Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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........
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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