Re: Top 100 Novels... the Final Accounting

On May 9, 2:30=EF=BF=BDam, bill van <bill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <amt724tdnnsnc8116t5hvm6p4rmkjt7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> =EF=BF=BDNick Spalding <spald...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Wally Sevits wrote, in <fvv624pv8dvu607h5no71rt23hjfa83...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > =EF=BF=BDon Thu, 08 May 2008 15:41:05 -0700:
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> > > I never met anyone else who read the Sot-Weed Factor. =EF=BF=BDI
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it
> > > because I previously read Giles Goat-Boy and had enjoyed that a lot.
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> > I too read Giles Goat-Boy about forty years ago; it is still on the
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> > here, I must read it again. =EF=BF=BDI never read The Sot-Weed Factor.
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> I read both of them, once, about that long ago. Also Lost in the
> Funhouse. I liked them too, but in the same way I liked an interesting
> but challenging university course. That was good, but I don't think I
> want to do it again real soon. More metaphors and allusions than you can
> shake a stick at.


Leroy on all the Barth books. My favorite is The Floating Opera.