S'gotta be Moby Dick, a pleasure to read and deeply weird.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
Please, let us preserve our illusion of a luxurious variety of choices for as long as possible.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
I really like Vilette as well. as well as the repeated embarrassing lack of coverage of non English lit, poll reminds me i’ve never read Westward Ho! Otherwise it’s a Bleak Dick scenario folks, and v hard to see how yerman Herman doesn’t win out.
― Fizzles, Friday, 8 May 2020 07:50 (three years ago) link
Since Moby Dick will deservedly win this, I'll toss my vote to the elegant, romantic Graziella.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 May 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
There was a piece about that:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/tim-parks/fresh-generous-colourful-idyllic
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:40 (three years ago) link
Hey, thanks for that!
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 May 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
I've only read Moby Dick. Love it very much, like everyone else.
What's The Scarlet Letter like? The only other novel in this list that was on my radar at any one time.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
Can I be that guy and ask why we are splitting decades into 6- and 4- year polls instead of two halves?
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 8 May 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
This is I Love Books not I Love Maths.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
What's The Scarlet Letter like?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Scarletlettermovieposter.jpg
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 8 May 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Predictable, utterly deserved.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:06 (three years ago) link
I have hateful memories of being forced to read The Scarlet Letter at a young age, but reading it as an adult would probably be very different
― dip to dup (rob), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
It was chosen for a book club me and the missus attend and I admit we chickened out on that one
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of… the 1850's, pt.2 (1856-1859)
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Just started reading Villette. Iirc there is or was a twitter thread about women dying in 18thC literature, this one has to be top five: the lady having over-exerted herself at a ball, caught cold, took a fever, and died after a very brief illness.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Thursday, 14 May 2020 08:02 (three years ago) link
yes yes, 19thC.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Thursday, 14 May 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link