L. Frank Baum really did write a lot of books.
― 好 now 烧烤 (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Lots of interesting, curious stuff in here - "Bertram Cope's Year" apparently the first US gay novel, "The Haunted Bookshop" an example of what wikipedia tells me is the "bibliomystery", Young Visiters written by a nine year old. Sci-fi pulp really starting to barge its way in, too.
I'm voting for "Consequences", one of the most devastating books about the patriarchy I've ever read. An unpleasant surprise for me, expecting something along the lines of Delafield's comical "Diary Of A Provincial Lady", but in retrospect I have to admire the gutsiness.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
No Symphonie pastorale?
Regardless, Proust ftw.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:17 (three years ago) link
Wikipedia sez it's a novella.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Fair enough, but that didn't stop Heart of Darkness from making it.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
fucking firbank. has anyone got on with him? he’s sometimes cited as providing a crucial comic conduit for the fin de siecle into the 20th C and in his own way providing meaningful innovations in speech cadences and comic style. but i’ve always struggled.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
The Moon and Sixpence is the only one I've read but I couldn't say I remember enough about it to meaningfully vote for it.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
The Firbank is a novella as well, 80 or so pages. I have it but have not read it.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
The first part of The Moon Pool is more effective weird SF than Lovecraft, who was a huge fan ... the second part is generic lost-race pulp but maintains a mood of cosmic horror. Merritt is oddly underrated compared to his imitators/rivals from the Weird Tales coterie; he's a more fluent and atmospheric writer than any of them.
I haven't read The Heads of Cerberus yet, but Francis Stevens (pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett) was a major early SF/fantasy/horror writer who finally seems to be getting some recognition. For a while it was thought that "Francis Stevens" might be Merritt.
The Arrow of Gold has its moments but there are about a dozen better Conrad novels.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford is very very funny.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 04:14 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 November 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Another blank here. All these poll winners might make a good reading project (to go with the five I already have)
― koogs, Thursday, 26 November 2020 06:23 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 November 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
In The Shadow Of Young Girls In Flower not the best Belle & Sebastian album.
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1920
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 27 November 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link