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