A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

John Bailey sundayjb at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 20:53:27 CDT 2015


The order seems to remain the same.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:55 AM, David Ewers <dsewers at comcast.net> wrote:
> Me too!
>
> 1. V.
> 2. Gravity's Rainbow
> 3. Mason & Dixon
> 4/5. Against the Day
> 4/5. Crying of Lot 49
> 6. Vineland
> 7. Inherent Vice
> 8. Bleeding Edge
>
> On Jul 21, 2015, at 6:22 PM Jolly good day we are having, Mark Thibodeau
> wrote:
>
> I love the diversity of opinions, too, but I'm kind of surprised at how bad
> V. is faring!
>
> MT/J
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Love the diversity of rankings in rating one great author. Rather like six
>> blind men describing an elephant. We each have our opinions and our reasons
>> for them. I love GR, I truly do, and it may be the greater work for all it
>> did to shape postmodernism, but:
>>
>> 1. M&D
>> 2. GR
>> 3. AtD
>> 4. V. / COL 49  (tie)
>> 5. Vineland
>> 6. BE
>> 7. IV
>> 8. Slow Learner
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:48 PM, glenn fuller <glennfuller at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> G.R.
>>> A.t.D.
>>> T.C.O.L.49
>>> Vineland
>>> M&D
>>> I.V.
>>> B.E.
>>> V
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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