The Way Of All Flesh for me. There's a bit in it where a cruel father punishes this toddler for mispronoucing a word that is totally heart rending, couldn't be farther from Victorian sentimentality.
Shout out also to The Riddle Of The Sands, one of the most bafflingly enjoyable reading experiences I've had. All those instructions on how to sail just washed over me like soothing white noise.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 7 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
These single-year lists are mostly a wash for me, but I was obsessed with Pyle's Arthur and Robin Hood when I was a kid so I voted for that. I think Call of the Wild is the only other one I've read, also in childhood
― rob, Monday, 7 September 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
I've only read one of these. It's the one everyone's read. It's one of my all-time children's favourites (although it's not really for children!) and I probably have to vote for it - the sounding of the call indeed...
― imago, Monday, 7 September 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
only one I've read is The Call of The Wild, and I have forgotten almost all of it, maybe I didn't read the whole thing?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 September 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
I’ve read Call of the Wild but it didn’t stick with me half so much as White Fang. I’ll wait for the 1906 poll to talk about that one.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 7 September 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
This has a lot more on it that I've read than the previous few. Thought about voting The Ambassadors because it's the only Henry James I like, but think I'll have to go with The Way of All Flesh.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 7 September 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Another vote for "I read Call of the Wild as a kid and none of the others on this list".
― emil.y, Monday, 7 September 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
I re-read it recently with a student. It's legitimately brilliant imo
― imago, Monday, 7 September 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
The Ambassadors
― Brad C., Monday, 7 September 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Gradiva for the Freudian cred. Re: London, I've only read White Fang, which twelve year-old me thought was bad-ass (still is).
― pomenitul, Monday, 7 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
i think i've read call of the wild but looking back i'm not sure if i read the real book or some classics illustrated version.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 7 September 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
The Pit -- kinda feel like Norris is the Len Deighton of muckraker fiction, but I like Deighton and have a definite soft spot for where economics, sociology, and history meet fiction
― sarahell, Monday, 7 September 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
I've only read call of the wild. Want to read the Erskine Childers even just as a curio for someone involved in amateur RA studies
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
Lots of unfamiliar books by familiar authors.
Read call of the wild a few years ago and it prompted me to read more Jack London like The Iron Heel which predicts WWII. Quite depressing in its depictions of class war.
― koogs, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 07:48 (three years ago) link
I'm not entirely confident that Gradiva is better than Freud's praesee of it, but having read the latter I'm not sure I need to read the former
― imago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
please tell me I'm not the only one that had to look that word up?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
It's a deliberate misspelling of précis, no?
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 9 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 10 September 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1904
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link