A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Dave Monroe]

I find it interesting that, I THINK (correct me if I'm wrong, Heikki),
Mike + Heikki's rnakings run closest (albeit w/ differences
nonetheless) to my own

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> Quick break from Corbyn cheering.  You in the US have got Bernie Sanders,
> we've got Jeremy Corbyn, interesting socialist activity going on. Our main
> liberal paper, The Guardian has been headlining attack after attack for the
> last few days, it feels like civil war. But one side is using doom as
> ammunition and the other using hope.
>
> Meanwhile,  in another world
>
> GR, because it told me it was okay to be an intellectual politico dopefreak,
> (and because of all the stuff everyone else has said). But it's the only one
> I've read many times. So the rest are less measured placings, more
> indicative of my mood than anything
>
> 1. GR
> 2. CoL
> 3. Vineland
> 4. M&D
> 5. V
> 6. AtD
> 7. IV
> 8. BE
>
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> On 23/07/2015 21:12, Heikki R wrote:
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> 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
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> 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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