all the books i read in 2011 in a poll

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dont remember why i kept track of this
i couldve read proust or w/e instead of all this

Poll Results

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Richard yates - tao lin 1
Birds of America - Lorrie Moore 1
What I talk about when i talk about running - Murakami 1
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles - Murakami 1
Even Cowgirls get the blues - Tom Robbins 1
The last Tycoon - F Scott Fitzgerald 0
Live from new york: history of SNL - shales, miller 0
Peter sellers - Derek sylvester 0
Eat this Document - dana spiotta 0
X-rated: the Mitchell brothers: A true story of sex, money & death - David Mccumber 0
Freedom - Franzen 0
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography - Philip Roth 0
Fellini: A Life - Hollis Alpert 0
Little Chicago - Adam Rapp 0
Notes at a revolution - Mark Harris 0
Stone Arabia - Dana Spiotta 0
Play it as it lays - joan didion 0
Paul on Mazursky - sam wasson 0
Heathers - John Ross Bowie 0
A Naked Singularity - sergio de la pava 0
Ruthless - jerry heller 0
The life and death of yukio mishima - henry scott-stokes 0
Tesla: Man out of time - margaret cheney 0
Abbott Awaits - chris Bachelder 0
A Visit from the goon Squad - jennifer egan 0
The Pale King - david foster wallace 0
The tragedy of Arthur - arthur phillips 0
Loser Take All: the comic art of woody allen - maurice yacowar 0
Those guys have all thte fun: ESPN history - shales, miller 0
Prep - curtis sittenfeld 0
The Astral - Kate Christensen 0
Down & Dirty Pictures - peter biskind 0
A payroll to meet - david whitford 0


j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 1 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link

ha i kind of want to poll mine now

thompp, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link

though i think i forgot to keep track july through sept or so, so

thompp, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link

no temptation to poll mine, the amount of low-quality skiffy is embarrassing.

only read 'visit from the goon squad' out of this list and i ain't voting for it.

ledge, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link

Let's post our librogaphies here and at least pick a best-and-worst then. I'll sort mine out later.

Goon Squad is my only coincidence too. I liked it but it'd be a pointless vote I feel.

Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 January 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link

thompp id be interested in wut u read

j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 1 January 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

Even Cow Girls Get the Blues the best on this list imo

Mordy, Sunday, 1 January 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

i really liked the two spiotta books

did not like the windup bird chrons but idk if its the worst

j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 1 January 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link

Only read Goon Squad and The Last Tycoon. I'd vote for Goon Squad! (ignores ledge's lowering stare). But more importantly this is reminding me to keep a proper bloody log of what I read this year. I seem to be able to recall reading only two things. Now I know I tailed off a bit at the end of the year, but I don't think things were quite that lenten.

Fizzles, Sunday, 1 January 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link

i also read the two spiotta, 'play it as it lays' (lol ilx) and 'the pale king' this year. of those id vote for 'stone arabia' p easily. of all the stuff on the list ive read itd be either 'prep' or the snl oral history i think

є(٥_ ٥)э, Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

i have a notepad doc of the (new) stuff ive read this year but its p depressing

є(٥_ ٥)э, Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

yea 'prep' was p good. lamp have u read 'the man of my dreams'? i like that even more tho v much do not like its end. also, i will prob never read her laura bush book

j crunchwrap supreme, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link

i have! i think 'american wife' may have been my fave or hers tho. iirc i posted abt in the lost to the ages ilc book thread but its p economical and considered

є(٥_ ٥)э, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link

i have read almost none of these but birds of america

horseshoe, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

meaning, i am voting birds of america

horseshoe, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

have a soft spot for the last tycoon

horseshoe, Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link

This mania for making lists of books is alien to me. Aimless wanders as a cloud, you might say.

Aimless, Sunday, 1 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link

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

System, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link


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