Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1978

I should have read that. Did read several other Kennedys in the 80s, when he was in bloom. May well vote for Ironweed when we get to '83. Has some of the same characters as BPGC. O Albany, in the early 20th Century.

The film of The Cement Garden is as good as the book, captures its atmosphere really well.

I didn't expect to be disappointed by the film, I just thought the book was visual and tactile enough that I wouldn't get any more out of seeing it.

xxp Actually WK was in bloom way before that, but there were all of these reprints and new books in rapid succession, seemed liked (I belonged to QPBC, Quality Paperback Book Club). Esp. when the screen adaptation (which he wrote) of Ironweed came out, with Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep (Kael panned it, I think, but I liked it, thought it conveyed the somber, seamyy. sometimes desperate, vitality-mortality and momentum of the novel pretty well).

xp you should check out First Love, Last Rites, very similar in feel and I don't think he's ever written anything better.

It is also kind of horrifying though

Wait, is this the year Tim was excited about? Where's the football stickers annual?

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"Wait, is this the year Tim was excited about?"

Indeed it was.

I missed The Bookshop, that's a good one.

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1979

I missed The Bookshop, that's a good one.

I was the other vote for it. :)

I had to dip out of these threads for a bunch of IRL reasons but yes this was the one I was waiting for and yes thanks everyone for voting for the correct number 1.

Glad to have been of service.