Books I Read in 2018

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Poll #21045 Books I Read in 2018

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Which of these books have you read?

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One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
5 (83.3%)

The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole
0 (0.0%)

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
1 (16.7%)

Recollections of the Golden Triangle by Alain Robbe-Grillet
0 (0.0%)

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
0 (0.0%)

Collected Fiction by Paul Zukofsky
0 (0.0%)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction Spring 2012 | Vol. XXXII: Robert Coover Festschrift
0 (0.0%)

In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer
0 (0.0%)

White Teeth by Zadie Smith
1 (16.7%)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
0 (0.0%)

The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
0 (0.0%)

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
0 (0.0%)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
5 (83.3%)

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
4 (66.7%)

The Bamboo Bed by William Eastlake
0 (0.0%)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
2 (33.3%)

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
0 (0.0%)

Wish Her Safe at Home by Stephen Benatar
0 (0.0%)

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
0 (0.0%)

Individual and Metamorphosis by Gert Jonke
0 (0.0%)

The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
0 (0.0%)

Operation Shylock by Philip Roth
0 (0.0%)

none of these
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[bibliofile]

I read Cuckoo's Nest after someone in high school talked about how accurate it was. They had seen the movie while in the teen psych ward of a hospital, so I figured they'd know.

What made you pick the Joseph Conrad? Have you seen the British adaptation on TV?

[ateolf]

I don't remember why I picked the Conrad other than I like his writing and wanted to read more and I had that book laying around. Haven't seen any adaptations of it or anything.

Cuckoo's Nest is very frustrating in that it could be a really great book and it gets so many things right, but it mars itself with misogyny and weird racism against blacks (though while being progressive and understanding with native americans and homosexuality and, of course, mental illness).