i'm sure i've read and enjoyed books by worse people, but ford is such a legendary asshole that i've never been tempted to try.
(also the sportswriter at least *sounds* like more updike/roth 'aging writer rages that no one wants to fuck him anymore' crap)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:29 (two years ago) link
Voting for It, for me easily the peak of the king project - bleak and disturbing and sordid, its greatness I think inseparable from its most ill-judged elements (ie yes that scene, but also the general misogyny & homophobia, the bloat, the 2d characterisation); maybe you have to encounter it at the age of the young protagonists, as I did
I could have written this exact post but it would have been about The Stand
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
did not see that coming but then again there's not a book here that wouldn't have felt like a surprise win
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 23 July 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
what? this had the most obvious winner out of all these polls afaict
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Friday, 23 July 2021 01:54 (two years ago) link
Poor Maryse Condé. I would have voted for you, had I seen the poll in time.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 23 July 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
Not more obvious than Ulysses tbf, map.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 July 2021 08:40 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1987
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 23 July 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
I didn't see It coming either, but I have no idea which Stephen King novels are considered his best.
― o. nate, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
Would've voted for "Innocence" if it had been on the list. Human Voices/At Freddies/Innocence/Beginning of Spring is PF's imperial phase for me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
Wasn’t Innocence on there for another year already?
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link