Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1985

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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


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