As usual, lots of familiar names and titles, but have only read a few, will go for The Handmaid's Tale. which is still being told in the corridors ov memory and elsewhere (haven't seen the series, don't remember the movie)
― dow, Friday, 16 July 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
Blood Meridian, over Handmaid's Tale, from a stacked field
― Nature's promise vs. Simple truth (bernard snowy), Saturday, 17 July 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
Voted Masters of Atlantis, Portis, here. Perfect summation of the weird little cults that sprang up at the ragged fringes of US life before the internet turned them monstrous.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Sunday, 18 July 2021 00:42 (two years ago) link
Blood Meridian over Perfume
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 July 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
Old Masters. His best.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 July 2021 08:46 (two years ago) link
is the latter real-autobiography version of Oranges worth reading?
― koogs, Sunday, 18 July 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
* later
― koogs, Sunday, 18 July 2021 11:04 (two years ago) link
I don't know how much ground it re-covers (surely it would be interesting from that pov anyway) but I enjoyed it.
― At Easter I had a fall. I don't know whether to laugh or cry (ledge), Sunday, 18 July 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
I just finished Blood Meridian, so that over White Noise over Love in the Time of Cholera over City of Glass.
I wonder what I will think in a few years.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Sunday, 18 July 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 19 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Where'd my vote go? i am not good at computer
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
I was expecting The Handmaid's Tale to walk this, exacting descriptions of scalpings more popular on ilb though
― cryptkeepers are different (Matt #2), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 08:44 (two years ago) link
Didn't know if I thought it was going to win but did think it'd get more than two votes - has the by all accounts terrible tv show hurt its rep?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
I wonder who voted for A Maggot? It's certainly unlike most other novels though I would never read it again.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:30 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1986
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 10:52 (two years ago) link
Count me too as startled by low showing of Handmaid's Tale (of which I made up half the vote) -- at the time EVERYBODY read this, EVERYBODY praised it. My teen son read it and dug it last year so it's not like it doesn't still work.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link