Big Read Poll Results

[altariel]

Wow, you really got into my Big Read Poll! Anyone would think you all liked books or something. I read The Color Purple while you were making up your minds, and I thought it was terrific. Thank you everyone who recommended that one. Does the film do the book justice?

I'm surprised nobody wanted to inflict the last six-sevenths of Ulysses on me. I'm fairly sure I'll get round to that in my own time, though, as I like what I've read of Joyce. Well done for not voting for Kerouac!

Currently Catch-22 and Vanity Fair are slogging it out for my hand, nine votes each. Celebrity Death-Match! uitlander struck what I thought was the winning blow for Vanity Fair ("So good not even studying it for A-level could ruin it!"), but then The Last Bassist shamelessly deployed nostalgia in support of Catch-22. What's a girl to do? Perhaps I should just read both.

Special shout-out to gareth_rees for what I thought was a particularly eloquent case for Moby-Dick ("It's all sperm and flensing!"). It does sound the most magnificent head-fuck.

Apparatus: LJ, friends.
Method: Poll.
Results: Undecided.
Conclusion: You all read a lot, and rock.

Comments

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

I hope these numbers you're quoting are after reallocation of everyone's first pref. votes for other books not involved in the run-off.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Pshaw to proportional representation. It's all about enlightened despotism on this journal. ("Who's Queen?")

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

Tsk - I'm Disappointed. Anyway, STV is nothing to do with enhancing democracy and all that bollocks. It's so you can have a system so arcane and impenetrable that you have to rely on mathematicians to run it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And engineers to build the Speshul Voting Machines.