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11-02-2019, 09:21 AM | #16 | |
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I need to get past my severe dose of DMD (Decision Making Disorder), so at the risk of going a step too far, going off the end of the road and beyond the human finale...
I nominate The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Synopsis from Kobo: Quote:
There seem to be multiple editions and the prices vary, so watch out for that. Example prices from Kobo: USD $9.99, CAD $10.99, GBP £7.99, AUD $14.99 Non-fiction, obviously, which tends to be more expensive. I'm hoping people might find it in libraries (published in 2012), but this time I'm not holding back to find out. |
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11-02-2019, 11:45 AM | #17 |
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Wow - bold choice! Great interpretation
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11-02-2019, 05:45 PM | #18 |
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I’ll second The Calculating Stars.
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11-02-2019, 05:58 PM | #19 | |
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I'm going to renominate a book I nominated at the end of last year: Every Man Dies Alone (alternate title: Alone in Berlin) by Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann (1947, transl. 2009; 546 pp.); it was his last book, published posthumously.
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Amazon Canada, CA $9.88 Amazon UK, £4.99 Amazon Australia, AU $14.99 Kobo U.S., $12.99 Kobo Canada, CA $13.59 Kobo UK, £4.99 Kobo Australia, AU $14.99 Overdrive has the e-book and audiobook, RB Digital and Scribd have the audiobook. (I copied the links from my original nomination; I have not checked to see if there are any price changes.) |
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11-02-2019, 06:27 PM | #20 |
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I'll second Every Man Dies Alone, which I've wanted to read for a while.
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11-02-2019, 08:11 PM | #21 |
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I third Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
I second The End of the Affair by Graham Greene So many books, so few votes. |
11-02-2019, 08:45 PM | #22 | |
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I nominate The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1976, 500 pp.).
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11-03-2019, 11:54 AM | #23 |
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I second The Remorseful Day. ‘Inspector Morse’ was my all time favourite BBC mystery, and actually bought the series, though expensive at the time. So I’m quite curious about the books.
Tough choice though - I wish I hadn’t wasted a vote on two nominations. That’ll learn me. |
11-03-2019, 12:55 PM | #24 | |
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11-03-2019, 04:49 PM | #25 |
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A single nomination and two votes to second or third other books also means we have a greater number of fully nominated books, unless some people don’t nominate a book but simply support others’ nominations.
I third The End of the Affair. |
11-04-2019, 08:14 AM | #26 |
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I'm seconding The World Without Us, which is outside my usual and sounds timely and provocative.
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11-04-2019, 03:42 PM | #27 |
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Very good point Bookpossum - we have a string of unsupported/half supported books this month. There are 3 I wish I could help get over the line.
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11-04-2019, 05:33 PM | #28 |
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I will third The World Without Us - I have often speculated on how much better off it would be if we all disappeared.
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11-04-2019, 07:01 PM | #29 |
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11-05-2019, 01:00 AM | #30 |
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I will second The Stone Angel and third Every Man Dies Alone.
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