Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1991

I recall the kerfuffle over the Amis book having cribbed its conceit from all three of Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard, but now since a proper writer was doing it all was well. Shit, that was 30 years ago? *checks mirror*

Eh, I don't feel like time-slippage/backwards story-telling needs to be a proprietary thing. Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard are all much better writers than Amis, though, and I can just imagine the wankery of that discourse about "proper writers".

I loved Pat Barker's WWI novels, and he gets the queer nuances right, sez this queer who was neither British nor alive in 1916.

(Pat Barker is a lady, which i didn't realise until recently, because wwi war poets struck me as a man's subject)

that said, a Google image search makes her look like two different people. but both of them are female.

here's where I admit to enjoying Generation X

i think i'd've enjoyed it more if i hadn't read microserfs first

It’s either Time’s Arrow or Jernigan for me, I guess.

Heard of Quignard and quite like to read him and not sure why I've not come round -- see there is quite a lot in translation.

I've only read the Tabucchi. Like but won't vote for it. Like Emily finding this period a tad barren.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Like fuck is American Psycho better than the Saramago, grumble grumble.

I recall the kerfuffle over the Amis book having cribbed its conceit from all three of Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard, but now since a proper writer was doing it all was well.

I thought Ballard and, to a lesser extent, Vonnegut were always seen as Proper Writers?

I thought I’d voted for sure. :(

Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1992

Missed this on a camping trip, write-in for The Gold Bug Variations.