Subject: RE:a return hello.
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Wed May 28 1997 - 08:47:07 GMT
I don't think mailer's writing is top rate and I've read almost all of
it...I don't even think updike or bellow are in Salinger's class...the
truth of it is this: reread hotspur's post and think if you ever hear
readers talking about bellow, mailer and updike in similar ways...
As for pynchon reading, I'd start with V...W
On Wed, 28 May 1997, zooey wrote:
> Dear Bananafish:
> Hello again! I was once a contributor to this mailing list; however, my
> course work at college was so heavy I couldn't take any time to reply or
> have much time to even read the most of the e-mail messages. Since this
> semester has ended I have went back and read some of the messages. It is
> nice to see that Will, Malc, and Sundeep are still contributing. I also
> want to say hello to the new members of Bananafish. I am glad that I am
> back. I hope you are as well.
> Let me start with a question. I saw Norman Mailer on Charlie Rose and he
> listed the top writers of the second half of this century. His list
> included himself, John Updike, Saul Bellow(SP)?. Who would you include or
> drop from this list? Just a question to throw around.
> A second question: I have never read any of Thomas Pynchon's books but I
> want to start. Where should I start? I am leaning towards The Crying of Lot
> 49. Where should I lean?
> Thanks, zooey@cwv.net
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