A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Kamil Prusakowski]

1. Gravity's Rainbow
2. Crying of Lot 49
3. Mason & Dixon / Against the Day ex aequo
4. V.
5. Vineland
6. Inherent Vice / Bleeding Edge

2015-07-23 12:05 GMT+02:00 Heikki R <situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com>:

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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:42 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> God I'm glad someone else took on this job. I was sweating jellybeans
>> at my lack of statistical abilities. For unranked novels I just split
>> the leftover points evenly, knowing this was Bad Math.
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> I'm way more talented in Excel than in Math myself, but I dare think
> leftover-point-splitting is the best available procedure - thanks John!
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> So, a slightly modified ranking:
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> 1. Gravity's Rainbow      (156 points - average 7.43)
> 2. Mason & Dixon          (131 points - average 6.24)
> 3. V.                             (108.5 points - average 5.17)
> 4. The Crying of Lot 49   (99 points - average 4.71)
> 5. Against the Day         (85.5 points - average 4.07)
> 6. Vineland                    (80 points - average 3.81)
> 7. Bleeding Edge           (53 points - average 2.52)
> 8. Inherent Vice             (43 points - average 2.04)
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