What was the best book you read in 2024 anon? What was your proudest read? What did you like/dislike about them?
Miserysuper scary and way better than the movie. Also sprinkles in King's thoughts on writing that I found interesting and inspriring.
Best novel was True History of the Kelly Gang. The technique of it is brilliant. You never see the wires: the narrative is completely convincing as the voice and mentality of someone from that time and place. Keeps an exciting adventure plot, even though you know how it ends, while still having the big themes of freedom, individuality, conformity, authority and so on. Best poetry was Geoffrey Hill collected poems, the old one that stops in the 80s. He was as good as any of the old canon greats. In particular Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in EnglandAlso, Ted Hughes' translation of Seneca's Oedipus
