Was semi expecting a Silent Majority for Fitzgerald here but I guess it's no surprise Kafka would triumph on ILX
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1926
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
Would've voted Woolf had I known it would be a landslide. Only 3 votes is criminal imo.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Shout-out to whoever voted for the Dreiser, can't honestly say I think it deserves to win this field but it packs a punch and I'm glad it wasn't shut out
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 17 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
ranked voting would be handy in polls with multiple worthy books, but I think Kafka still would've won.
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
I really want more Stein and Dreiser, also need to try Gide, but right now what an unfuckwithable 1925 lifeboat quartet: The Trial by Franz Kafka The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mrs Dalloway by Virgina Woolf The Professor's House by Willa Cather
― dow, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
The only Dreiser I've read is the Library of America volume comprised of Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and Twelve Men: exxxcellent.
― dow, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
also the elite cadre, with Kafka at the top and Orwell quite possibly second, of writers who've stamped themselves into the imaginaire of people who've never read them― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, December 14, 2020 7:43 PM (one minute ago)Kafka is evading this tendancy these days, I think. "Read some effin Orwell", is how it mostly is.― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:51 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Monday, December 14, 2020 7:43 PM (one minute ago)
Kafka is evading this tendancy these days, I think. "Read some effin Orwell", is how it mostly is.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:51 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just seen the following joke in The Simpsons. Lisa is outraged about something.
Lisa: This is Kafkaesque! Kafkaesque! Judge: I've got my eye on you tooLisa: Now it's Orwellian!
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Lol fair enough though if it's a season 10+ joke then I'm not sure it counts
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 December 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
It was more recent than that. Of course it means nothing, but the timing made me smile
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 December 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link