Thomas Wolfe

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what's the best from his major, most famous novels?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Look Homeward, Angel (1929)	0
Of Time and the River (1935)	0
You Can't Go Home Again (1940)	0

― nostormo, Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:21 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

Reading Angel. Kinda ambvilent.

― nostormo, Friday, 10 April 2015 03:18 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

he is considered passe now, isn't he?

― nostormo, Friday, 10 April 2015 06:06 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 16 April 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

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

― System, Friday, 17 April 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)

enlightening poll result

― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Friday, 17 April 2015 00:24 (eleven years ago)

Queenside castle

― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:19 (eleven years ago)

result = all his readers think every book is equally good, decision impossible

― j., Friday, 17 April 2015 02:04 (eleven years ago)

result-no one here ever read Wolfe. anyone ho said he did is a liar!

― nostormo, Friday, 17 April 2015 21:47 (eleven years ago)

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