Another year and another seasonal celebration accompanied by our traditional look back at the previous 12 months
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| HBG December 2022 |
What was rated? What was slated?
Here are the answers...
HOVE BOOK GROUP: End of year review 2022 poll results
1. Favourite read
Olive Kitteridge (2008) by Elizabeth Strout (Tristan) - 12
All That Remains (2019) by Sue Black (Nick) - 8
Mayflies (2020) by Andrew O’Hagan (Hamish) - 6
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The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion (Roland) - 4
Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban (Nigel) - 4
Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Roland) - 4
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad (Nick) - 3
Epitaph For a Spy (1938) by Eric Ambler (Keith) - 1
Cocaine Nights (1996) by JG Ballard (Robin) - 0
Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobell (Robin) - 0
2. Favourite music
Dub Me Crazy (1982) by Mad Professor (Robin) - 12
Living Like a Refugee (2006) by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (Keith) - 8
Ghosteen (2019) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Nick) - 5
50 Song Memoir (2017) by The Magnetic Fields (Tristan) - 5
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Homecoming (2021) by Du Blonde (Hamish) - 4
Viva Espagna playlist (Robin) - 2
Hymn to Nikkal by Clare O’Connell - from The Isolated Cellist (Roland) - 2
Bad Apples/Ballast (2022) by Objekt (Roland) - 2
The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (Nick) - 1
Thunder Perfect Mind (1992) by Current 93 (Nigel) - 0
3. Favourite watch
Surge directed by Aneil Maria (Nick) - 9
Apocalypse Now (1979) dir by Francis Ford Copolla (Nigel) - 9
Rocks (2019) directed by Sarah Gavron (Tristan) - 8
Sexy Beast (2000) dir by Jonathan Glazer (Robin) - 5
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Ex Machina (2014) dir by Alex Garland (Roland) - 4
The Straight Story (1999) dir by David Lynch (Nick) - 4
The Tribe (2021) dir by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (Hamish) - 1
Limbo (2020) dir by Ben Sharrock (Keith) - 0
October Sky (1999) dir by Joe Johnston (Robin) - 0
Pieces of a Woman (2020) dir by Kornél Mundruczó (Roland) - 0
4. Favourite theme
Mourning Glory (Roland) - 8
Mortality (Nick) - 8
Robots (Roland) - 7
The horror, the horror (Nick) - 5
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Loss of childhood (Tristan) - 4
Refugees (Keith) - 4
Apocalyptic (Nigel) - 2
Viva Espagna (Robin) - 2
Science (Robin) - 0
