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My votes:
1 to Papillon
1 to All the King's Men
1 to Pan
1 to The Solitude of Prime Numbers
1 to To the Lighthouse
1 to Coasting
1 to Dracula
1 to The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
This is another month of great possibilities and I'd be happy with any of them. Robinson Crusoe is one of my all-time favourites and I'd be up for a re-read, but it's the only one I've already read. I've read other books by both Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One's Own) and Hamsun (Hunger) and like both authors. I liked both of their current nom's previews as well, To the Lighthouse beginning with the son hoping for an outing to the title structure and Pan with a man reminiscing about living in a cabin by a forest in the north of Norway during the 'endless day' when the sun never sets.
Coasting starts with a description of the view of various unwelcoming parts of the English coast as viewed from a boat, Dracula with the narrator travelling to Romania and describing his first impressions on his way to meet the Count. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter has a preview describing two very different mute and deaf men who are best friends (and each other's only friend) and live together as roommates in the deep south, until one of them becomes very unwell and leaves the story by being sent off to a mental institution, which recalled for me our previous selection Owls Do Cry.
Papillon really drew me in with its preview of author describing his sentencing to prison and the 'descent into hell'. All the King's Men didn't draw me in quite as much from the start and contains some offensive language right out the gate, but I know it's considered one of the great American novels and I'd like to read it. The Solitude of Prime Numbers' preview seems to be something of an intriguing prologue set in the 1980s about a girl going to her early morning ski practice on a fateful day.
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