what's the best from his major, most famous novels?
― nostormo, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
These are getting the Penguin Classics treatment in the UK at the end of the year.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 10 April 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
Reading Angel. Kinda ambvilent.
― nostormo, Friday, 10 April 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
Last time I read Wolfe was so long ago I've forgotten which book I read. I vaguely recall it being You Can't Go Home Again, but who knows? Any vote I cast would be a vote cast in ignorance and despair.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Friday, 10 April 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
he is considered passe now, isn't he?
― nostormo, Friday, 10 April 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
Enjoyed the stuff about Wolfe in Berg's Max Perkins biography, but found Wolfe's fiction to be far less entertaining.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 10 April 2015 08:28 (nine years ago) link
In the hazy blur that is my memory of Wolfe, he seems like a transitional figure between Dreiser and Kerouac.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Friday, 10 April 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
it's been a decade since i've read wolfe but two things remain in my mind:
1) his intense self-interest and grandiose writing style was weirdly appealing & effective to Young Me.
2) look homeward angel is BREATHTAKINGLY racist.
― bonkers candle ancestors (reddening), Friday, 10 April 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 16 April 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 17 April 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
enlightening poll result
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Friday, 17 April 2015 00:24 (nine years ago) link
Queenside castle
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:19 (nine years ago) link
result = all his readers think every book is equally good, decision impossible
― j., Friday, 17 April 2015 02:04 (nine years ago) link
result-no one here ever read Wolfe. anyone ho said he did is a liar!
― nostormo, Friday, 17 April 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link