MobileRead March 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Um... look at the my image capture of the poll:

BOb

For most of us, Bob, that appears to be saying that it'll close on the 3rd of September...

[Ea]

Originally Posted by HarryT

For most of us, Bob, that appears to be saying that it'll close on the 3rd of September...

I'll wait until this date and time (see attachment) and see which one I'd like to give my vote to

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by HarryT

For most of us, Bob, that appears to be saying that it'll close on the 3rd of September...

I think you know better.

Of course, it's not my fault that the forum software doesn't properly localize the date display on a print screen.

BOb

[CharlieBird]

Originally Posted by MelC

You might want to check out these two sets of excerpts. They are pretty representative of the book as a whole (one of them includes the roasting pan reference so you can get the whole context).

http://www.maryroach.net/stiffExcerpts.html

http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/i...ok_number=1230

This should give you a better idea if the book is for you.

Mel

Tuff call for me if it wins, as I can tell from the excerpts that it would be a roller coaster read between laughing and wincing.

I appreciate Roach's take on death/dying/cadavers, just would rather not consider the detailed handling of body parts.

Think I may go for the new biography of Wille Mays if Stiff wins! I will read the post-read posts though.
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[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I think you know better.

Of course, it's not my fault that the forum software doesn't properly localize the date display on a print screen.

BOb

And it's not your fault the UK types get the date format wrong.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And it's not your fault the UK types get the date format wrong.

UK and most of the rest of the world. Who else but North America use that weird date format?

'UK types' indeed... Please. You're not quite up to date, mate.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Ea

UK and most of the rest of the world. Who else but North America use that weird date format?

'UK types' indeed... Please. You're not quite up to date, mate.

Actually, the best format is YYYY-MM-DD. That's how it's done for computers to be able to sort by date. And that's how it should be done worldwide. So really, no country does it correctly.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, the best format is YYYY-MM-DD. That's how it's done for computers to be able to sort by date. And that's how it should be done worldwide. So really, no country does it correctly.

I tend to use that in international settings, just so no-one, not even the USA types, get confused (hopefully).

[lene1949]

Oh... Nooooooo! Stiff's a goner...

... and the other one is only available in America and Canada...

[lene1949]

At least no more votes for the opposition... That could change quickly overnight, though...

PLEASE vote for stiff!

[seagull]

Actually Diesel and Cyberread have it

[kennyc]

Yeah, vote for any of the others. I'm not getting why that Devil is garnering votes. It sounds like one of the less interesting selections there to me. Maybe there is some trickery going on. I'm thinking we should be able to see who is voting for what. I call for open disclosure of voting.

[Ea]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Yeah, vote for any of the others. I'm not getting why that Devil is garnering votes. It sounds like one of the less interesting selections there to me. Maybe there is some trickery going on. I'm thinking we should be able to see who is voting for what. I call for open disclosure of voting.

You can see it until you vote yourself.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ea

You can see it until you vote yourself.

Oh! Sorry. I guess the actual voters are there if you click on the total.

Ah I see. It's PB's fault!

[kennyc]

And someone clue me in, what's with all the robot avatars, is this robot month or something???