A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Heikki R]

Here's a Dropbox link to the updated ranking table. Should be openable for
anyone here. The race is getting tighter. Enjoy!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3ncwr59itywy7f/RankingPynchNovels.pdf?dl=0





On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:46 PM, Bob Berg <robertberg5125 at comcast.net>
wrote:

>  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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