Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1921

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I knew that if any poster would be able to give a rundown of more tan two or three books per poll in this, it would be James Morrison!

Švejk an iffy case on my part - it got listed on wiki because this is the first year it started being serialized, I should've probably waited for the year it was (un)finished but was worried it wouldn't be listed and I'd forget.

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link

went into town yesterday and into charity shops taht had just reopened after several weeks of lockdowqn.
I scored a copy of tthe DK art booik I had missed in the same charity shop a coupl eo fyears ago.
& i saw but didn't pick up 2 volumes of Tarzan omnibuses, one of which included Tarzan the Terrible.
Wonder if I should try to grab it , though not goingto be in town for another couple of days.
BUt its one of the Tarzan visits to Pel Ul cidar the land where dinosaurs survived and evolved. Tarzan's gone there looking to avenge the death of Jane who he's just been travelling the world trying to avenge.
Not sure I'd actually get around to reading it though but if i need a book about the travails of a great white saviour I'm sure I could do worse.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 2 December 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link

Proust, easily, as I've not a single other book of the list. Will definitely search out Švejk though.

A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link

Švejk as it's the only one I've read. great wee book though, very funny.

I'm starting on proust soon, got the first book, will probably get cracking over the Christmas break

Politically homely (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 December 2020 00:04 (three years ago) link

I wonder what's going to win 1922. I can think of no possible books. Certainly not one of the greatest works ever written. No sirree.

emil.y, Thursday, 3 December 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link

I wonder what's going to win 1922. I can think of no possible books. Certainly not one of the greatest works ever written. No sirree.

Strong support there for Albert Payson Terhune's classic dog novel Further Adventures Of Lad, but I would tend to agree, seeing as how it includes the stories of Lad's initial arrival at the "Place", the death of his mate, and the day of his own death, as well as the one where Lad is taken to compete in a dog show in Beauville.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1922

Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 3 December 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link


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