Rhys. Powell's first novel is fine but slight. Must read Sanctuary.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 8 January 2021 19:10 (three years ago) link
i was assigned the good earth in middle school and then AGAIN two years later in high school. despite that i can't really remember it at all. i wonder if it still gets assigned much these days?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
I haven't read any of these. The Floating Admiral sounds interesting.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 8 January 2021 19:23 (three years ago) link
Night Flight is gorgeous. About a mail pilot who gets caught in a storm, climbs above it, and then realizes he's not going to be able to land.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
Hard agree - Night Flight is beautiful.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 8 January 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
Woolf, yet again.
― pomenitul, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
Content warning to anyone thinking about reading Sanctuary that it's intensely violent and contains a graphic rape scene.
― Lily Dale, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:08 (three years ago) link
The Waves vs Spacehounds Of IPC
― alimosina, Saturday, 9 January 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
i'm happy to see love for night flight, the opening pages -- describing what it's like to fly for hours in the darkness and then finally see the dim light of a city pop up -- contain some of my favorite writing ever.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:29 (three years ago) link
i hate V Woolf but it's hard not to vote for the wavs
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 January 2021 05:31 (three years ago) link
Hanley's BOY is excellent but brutal and one of the saddest novels i can think of.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 9 January 2021 11:50 (three years ago) link
Do love de Saint-Exupery. he's so much more than the Little prince's author ho ho.I think the premise of taht comes from him getting lost while flying the mail doesn't it?
The Road Back by Remarque is presumably somewhat connected to All Quiet on the Western Front? though I thought the protagonist of that didn't survive.again not come across a lot of these. I thought I might be more familiar from a certain point and assumed that was earlier than this. would have at least come across some of these titles
― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 January 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 11 January 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1932
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 11 January 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link