i recall thinking the very end (and build to the end i guess) of cryptonomicon was v cinematic & resultantly obv could/should be adapted to screen. wonder if its ever come close or whats the deal
voted intuitionist
― johnny crunch, Friday, 8 October 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
Disgrace is absolutely Coetzee's best. The Intuitionist was quite the calling card.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 8 October 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
Tarzan's Tonsillitis??
― alimosina, Friday, 8 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
Another year in which I barely read anything
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
Juneteenth it is by default. I have the Gibson book and made it a few pages in but haven’t been in the right state of mind to dig in deep.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 October 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
cryptonomicon narrowly over ghostwritten. those are the only 2 i've read. both page after page non-stop bangers
― flopson, Saturday, 9 October 2021 00:25 (two years ago) link
The Knight Of All Times by Miho Mosulishvili
Unfortunately I don't read Georgian and it hasn't been translated.
― alimosina, Saturday, 9 October 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
the fact that All Tomorrow's Parties is here makes me wonder where Virtual Light and Idoru were 8)
idoru is probably my favourite of the three so this gets surrogate votes
― koogs, Saturday, 9 October 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
(Ghostwritten and Cryptonomicon being the other two i've read. the caves thing makes this hard for me to read)
― koogs, Saturday, 9 October 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
Disgrace is magnificent. So that.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:29 (two years ago) link
god there's some wrong 'uns on this list
anyway, Q by a country mile
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
Sadly disappointing:
Tarzan's Tonsillitis (original title: La amigdalitis de Tarzán, 1999) is an epistolary novel from the Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce.
Plot summaryIt is about the romance between Fernanda and Juan Manuel del Carpio. It tells how life can pass and they keep in touch through the years only by mail. They meet sometimes in different cities of America and Europe but they never stay together for long. So they keep writing each other.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
To the best of my memory as I read all these some time ago: Disgrace is one of those books about people where I can't figure out what makes them tick or why I would want to read about them; Cryptonomicon is probably the second best of the four Stephenson's I've read though I'm not sure I was completely sold on it; Q is an intellectual historical thriller in the Eco mould except with more cynicism, violence, and far left politics, so I'm voting for that. (Though I thought the follow up Altai was far less entertaining.)
― ledge, Saturday, 9 October 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 11 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2000
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 11:19 (two years ago) link