A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Bob Berg]

I am basically a lurker here, and haven't yet read all of the oeuvre. I 
am a Slow Reader.  I am thankful for the (hopefully only temporarily) 
aborted group read giving me the impetus to be well into a second 
reading of M&D.  I am offering this link as an indication to why I put 
M&D at the top of the list of TRP's novels that I have read.

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason1.html


bob

my list so far...

1.Mason & Dixon
2.Inherent Vice
3.V.
4.CoL49
5.Vineland
6.Bleeding Edge

ps.  I don't consider this a hierarchical list of quality at all... just 
sharing with you how much I enjoyed reading each one relative to the 
others.  And I enjoyed the last on my list (BE) much more than half of 
all other authors I've read.

On 7/23/15 10:03 AM, Monte Davis wrote:
> 1. Mason & Dixon
> 2. Gravity's Rainbow
> 3. Against the Day
> 4. Crying of Lot 49
> 5 / 6. V. / Bleeding Edge
> 7. Vineland
> 8. Inherent Vice
>
> Obviously the weight and spread of history informing the "big" books 
> is important to me. CoL49 is a gem (I've never agreed with Pynchon's 
> deprecation in the Slow Learner intro), with substantial stretches of 
> his best-worked surface, and lacks only that deep web of connections 
> to tie with AtD or even be #3. I anticipate that I'll keep growing 
> into Against the Day, based on how much more it gave me on rereading.
>

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