Passing is a great, spare novel. Sound and the Fury is...extra...will probs vote for Light in August when it comes up.
Would like to read the Tanezaki; great title!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Sorry to post twice!
second post by Pierre Menard
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 31 December 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Author of The Fury
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 December 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
I read most of these during the Depression---there wasn't much else to do---but the one that elbows its way to the front of the memory bread line is Red Harvest. Right or wrong, that's just the way it is.
― dow, Friday, 1 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Had the same experience as 'Halfway', reading Berlin Alexanderplatz before seeing the series - I did enjoy the series just as much though. Voting for this. Ashamed to say I once started this Faulkner but never finished it.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 2 January 2021 13:25 (three years ago) link
The limited budget of the series was a problem - I remember about half of it being set in the same bar, like Cheers gone Nazi. Also the last episode is more like Fassbinder's exegesis on the themes and subtexts of the novel than an actual wrap-up, a bold move that only half-works.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 January 2021 15:39 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
It's gotta be the Macbeth riff.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 3 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
I really need to read the de Sainte Exupery cos I've been meaning to for a while I think I half read one of the mail pilot books a while back.Saw a film about him too.
― Stevolende, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
I really love Night Flight but haven't read this one. I think I bought it in French once but then was too lazy to actually read it.
― Lily Dale, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:12 (three years ago) link
escaped cock stan reveal thyself
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 January 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link
I missed this one, but probably would have voted for The Good Companions. It’s really interesting view into a vanishing world, vanishing even in 1929.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 4 January 2021 11:10 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1930
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 4 January 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link