The OF Blog: Recent Poll Results

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Recent Poll Results

Been slacking on posting the last three polls here, so some of these date back to late March.  Here are the results of three polls (two expiring back on April 2, last one on April 16) on books to be read/reviewed (the middle one is for Shakespeare's comedies):


Faulkner, Go Down Moses
  15 (18%)
Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
  9 (11%)
Joyce, Ulysses
  38 (47%)
Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone (5 vols.)
  19 (23%)
Beukes, Zoo City
  6 (7%)
wa Thiong'o, Dreams in a Time of War
  18 (22%)
Maupassant, The Tales of Guy de Maupassant
  21 (26%)
Hughes, The Poetry of Langston Hughes
  2 (2%)
Disch, The Prisoner
  10 (12%)
Sholokhov, And Quiet Flows the Don
  6 (7%)
Beaulieu, The Winds of Khalakovo
  8 (10%)
James, The Ambassadors
  13 (16%)
McIntosh, Soft Apocalypse
  6 (7%)
Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos/The Lost Steps
  7 (8%)
Doctorow, With a Little Help
  10 (12%)


The Tempest
  21 (47%)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  3 (6%)
The Merry Wives of Windsor
  4 (9%)
Measure for Measure
  4 (9%)
The Comedy of Errors
  3 (6%)
Much Ado About Nothing
  8 (18%)
Love's Labour's Lost
  3 (6%)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
  14 (31%)
The Merchant of Venice
  9 (20%)
As You Like It
  5 (11%)
The Taming of the Shrew
  10 (22%)
All's Well That Ends Well
  1 (2%)
Twelfth Night
  8 (18%)
The Winter's Tale
  11 (25%)

Bakker, The White-Luck Warrior
  44 (48%)
D.F. Wallace, The Pale King
  20 (22%)
Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
  14 (15%)
wa Thiong'o, Devil on the Cross
  7 (7%)
Anonymous, El poema del Cíd/The Poem of El Cid
  8 (8%)
Finney, The Unholy City
  4 (4%)
Bolaño, Los sinsabores del verdadero policia
  16 (17%)
Petronius, The Satyricon
  10 (11%)
Sterne, Tristram Shandy
  16 (17%)
Morris, The Wood Beyond the World
  8 (8%)
Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar
  18 (20%)
Munn, Merlin's Ring
  5 (5%)
Machen, The Three Imposters
  5 (5%)
Bukowski, Pulp
  14 (15%)
Dunsany, Over the Hills and Far Away
  19 (21%



Each of these highlighted entries will be seriously considered for a review in the near future (it might take a few months, depending on a lot of factors; I need to rediscover my reviewing mojo) and at the very least will be read (if not already) in the coming weeks.

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