Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1982

Deadeye Dick isn't top tier Vonnegut but there are some interesting ideas in there.

Best HHGTG book is #4, "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish", best thing he ever wrote, this is a hill I will die on.

Totally agree, he gives Arthur a brief period of happiness, which I really like.

It’s also really deeply descriptive of the Islington of my childhood, and I love that.

write-ins for:

wittgenstein's nephew, thomas bernhard
in viriconium, m. john harrison

I'd have voted for Viriconium in a flash

was The Gunslinger published at the time?

wikipedia
"The finished product was first published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. as a limited edition in 1982", with another 10k later. (and even then it was 5 short stories munged together.

so not really. i wasn't aware until '88 when it became Dark Tower vol 1

It's rubbish anyway :)

i have memories of reading it in the guesthouse during my first week of my first job, sat in the guest house before we'd sorted out accomodation.

and went on to read all the others, *some* of which were good. didn't bother with anytihng after the original 7 though (haven't there been add-ons and prequels?)

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I'll take a tie, shout outs to the other four True Deceiver stans!

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1983