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Vanity Fair
Jul. 28th, 2008 09:07 amThank you everyone who recommended Vanity Fair on my Big Read Poll: I finished it this morning over breakfast and thought it was an absolute hoot. You are all very wise, o my flisters.
Big Read Poll Results
Jul. 4th, 2008 09:20 amWow, 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!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 togareth_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.
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.
Big Read Poll
Jul. 2nd, 2008 08:51 amIn a variation on the Big Read meme that's been going round, I thought I would do a poll. I've listed all the books which I have not read/completed, but which I have around the house. Your task is to indicate which one I should try to read/complete. Please tell me why in comments!
Obviously if you pick The Complete Works of Shakespeare I'll have to hunt you down.
[Poll #1215792]
Obviously if you pick The Complete Works of Shakespeare I'll have to hunt you down.
[Poll #1215792]
