Poll

I think A Wreath of Roses has run out of steam. I can't vote for it over To the Lighthouse either!

Elizabeth Taylor has done well to get this far, but Woolf may be a round too far (like Arsenal for Lincoln)...

Trevor wrote: "I think A Wreath of Roses has run out of steam. I can't vote for it over To the Lighthouse either!"

Yeah, I had to abandon ET here too.

Wow. Unanimous (so far).

I have read neither book unfortunately but from others I have read of each author, no contest I am afraid. Lincoln vs Arsenal is probably a flattering comparison.

The other Elizabeth Taylor did somewhat better in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?...

Good to see one vote for Taylor. Ctb - care to make the case for others of us to switch?

I'm just glad that we're not erasing books that lose this competition!

Paul wrote: "Good to see one vote for Taylor. Ctb - care to make the case for others of us to switch?"

Oh, I can't mount any argument. Art is too psychically intimate. I'd starve as any kind of salesman: buy it; don't buy it; suit your own stupid self.

I'll only say I voted here (I've stopped voting due to feeling preposterous) as retribution for Mrs. Dalloway and sympathy for Taylor. The bit of WoR I've read is tonally appealing.

I wasn't going to vote on this one, but I read 'Time Passes' earlier this morning and it is absolutely amazing, just beautiful. I have to vote for the book that contains that. Might be one of my favourite stretches of writing at that length ever (albeit not so many are clearly identifiable... and there is one page where class stuff could perhaps be better handled.)

Ctb: I really didn't get on well with Mrs Dalloway either, felt it dragged me down, but once I read a long stretch of TtL I loved it. (Small bits at a time didn't have the same effect. The only other Woolf I've really liked was Orlando.

Antonomasia wrote: "I wasn't going to vote on this one, but I read 'Time Passes' earlier this morning and it is absolutely amazing, just beautiful. I have to vote for the book that contains that. Might be one of my fa..."

(Thumbs up.)

Because A Wreath of Roses was an upset winner in Rounds 1&2, because I had never heard of Elizabeth Taylor the author (versus Elizabeth Taylor the actress), and because the Kindle version was available on Amazon for 90 cents, I am now reading it. At 60% done, I am not loving or hating it. My impression so far is that it reads quickly and has decent prose. The story is just now getting interesting, especially Francis.