Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1929

second post by Pierre Menard

Author of The Fury

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.

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.

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.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

It's gotta be the Macbeth riff.

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

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.

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.

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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.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1930