A Ranking of Pynchon's Novels

[Mike Weaver]

All Heikki and I have in common is GR at the top and IV & BE at the 
bottom - and they aren't in the same order.

That leaves only four possible differences, all involving one of BE & IV 
at the top and GR down at the bottom with the other one.

Are we in an episode of The Outer Limits?

> On 24/07/2015 17:27, Dave Monroe wrote:
> 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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