I read My Antonia earlier this year and it was about 100 times better than I'd expected ... I think I had the impression it was a children's book, perhaps because the main characters are children at the start of the story, but it's far more than that
― Brad C., Thursday, 19 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
My Antonia also the only one of these I've read and I second the praise.
― o. nate, Friday, 20 November 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
My Antonia would rate high in a poll of the entire decade, let along a single year, which year happened to be one where the Great War swallowed up so much time and talent and shrank the market for ambitious or reflective novels.
― The Solace of Fortitude (Aimless), Friday, 20 November 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
The publication of the Wyndham Lewis is a bit more complex, it's included here because wikipedia lists it by year of US release, sorry for collaborating with american imperialism.Tarr had a somewhat complicated publishing history anyway so i think it’s legit. I’m a fan; psychology is depicted as a vividly pictorial or dynamic element, and this leads to continual invention of descriptive concepts and a visual/dynamic space that is full and combative and energetic, as you might expect from someone who saw himself in pure form as a satirist and was an exceptional artist. as with much of lewis’ writing the overall effect can be quite unappealing: cynical and unhuman, certainly quite strange. bracing though, and fizzing with energy. a better painter, draftsman and essayist than a novelist generally. he was a person of ideas and images in words really. tarr probably the easiest to read and best of his novels (tho the v late self-condemned is bleak af, and the revenge for love is pretty savage).find it hard to believe it’s the best here, tho a quick look suggests it’s the only one i’ve read.
― Fizzles, Friday, 20 November 2020 07:26 (three years ago) link
xps to LBI: I had not, but I understood the phrase immediately, sounds like something my nana would have said. There aren’t too many novels set in the Midlands, would be interested in checking that one out.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Friday, 20 November 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link
Fucking hell, Edgar Wallace, give it a fucking rest.
cather or west (Tho the Norman Lindsay is a stone cold childrens fiction classic)
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 20 November 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
Wallace was a fucking writing machine. Now people only remember him for writing King Kong and, in Germany, for having his name appropriated for a series of proto-giallo films.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 20 November 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Georges Duhamel’s Civilisation is missing (not that it matters). I’m sitting this one out, yet again, for lack of knowledgeability.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 21 November 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
Rare is quite a savagely funny book but all I've read from the list.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 November 2020 bookmarkflaglink
*Tarr
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 November 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
funnily enough just got this thru the post. mainly for its two essays on satire:https://imgur.com/gallery/exp66Et.jpg
― Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
https://imgur.com/gallery/exp66Et.jpeg
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/exp66Et.jpg
― Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
fuckit
― Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/o6Rh7hL.jpeg
― Fizzles, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
I admire your dedication there, Fizzles.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 22 November 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 November 2020 07:31 (three years ago) link
You can if you’re using zing, I’m far too lazy to do it otherwise for the most part.
― scampus fugit (gyac), Sunday, 22 November 2020 08:24 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1919
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link