05-18-2012, 11:53 AM | #1 |
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June 2012 Book Club Nominations
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June Nominations Help us select the next book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for June 2012. The nominations will run through midnight EST May 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The first poll will then be posted and will be open for 4 days, followed by a 3 day run-off poll between the two* top vote getters. Book selection category for June is: The Classics In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a pool at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others June consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. * In case of a first or second place tie in the first voting poll, the run-off poll June have more than two choices. Nominations closed Official choices with three nominations each: 1) Persuasion by Jane Austen [fantasyfan, issybird, Nyssa] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
2) The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [JSWolf, caleb72, WT Sharpe] Inkmesh search / Interactive ebook for iPad / ePub & mobi by JSWolf | ePub & mobi by HarryT | ePub Omnibus & mobi Omnibus by crich70 | other books - KF8/AZW3 by JSWolf Spoiler:
3) A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway [issybird, fantasyfan, Hamlet53] Inkmesh search / The Restored Edition: Inkmesh search Spoiler:
4) Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [AnemicOak, Hamlet53, colinsky] Inkmesh search / Patricia Clark Memorial Library (MobileRead) - mobi (german) by netseeker | mobi by mtravellerh | mobi by Madam Broshkina | ePub & mobi [German] by brucewelch | ePub (german) by netseeker Spoiler:
5) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas [RoccoPaco, sun surfer, Ginwen] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
6) Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout [Asawi, GA Russell, WT Sharpe] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
7) The Call of the Wild by Jack London [Synamon, odiakkoh, GA Russell] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
8) Discourse on the Method by René Descartes (parts I-VI) [WT Sharpe, GA Russell, Synamon]. Inkmesh search Spoiler:
9) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway [caleb72, Synamon, fantasyfan] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
10) Middlemarch by George Eliot [sun surfer, issybird, Mims] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
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05-18-2012, 11:53 AM | #2 |
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Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list. In addition, if members let me know that an ebook is unavailable in a particular geographic location, I'll note it in this post, right beside the Inkmesh search for that particular book.
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The Nominations so far: *** Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott [AnemicOak, Hamlet53, colinsky] Inkmesh search / Patricia Clark Memorial Library (MobileRead) - mobi (german) by netseeker | mobi by mtravellerh | mobi by Madam Broshkina | ePub & mobi [German] by brucewelch | ePub (german) by netseeker Spoiler:
*** Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout [Asawi, GA Russell, WT Sharpe] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** Persuasion by Jane Austen [fantasyfan, issybird, Nyssa] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway [caleb72, Synamon, fantasyfan] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
***The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas [RoccoPaco, sun surfer, Ginwen] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway [issybird, fantasyfan, Hamlet53] Inkmesh search / The Restored Edition: Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells [JSWolf, caleb72, WT Sharpe] Inkmesh search / Interactive ebook for iPad / ePub & mobi by JSWolf | ePub & mobi by HarryT | ePub Omnibus & mobi Omnibus by crich70 | other books - KF8/AZW3 by JSWolf Spoiler:
*** Discourse on the Method by René Descartes (parts I-VI) [WT Sharpe, GA Russell, Synamon]. Inkmesh search Spoiler:
* The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson [Hamlet53] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
***Middlemarch by George Eliot [sun surfer, issybird, Mims] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** The Call of the Wild by Jack London [Synamon, odiakkoh, GA Russell] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
** Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad [orlok, The Terminator] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
* Hard Times by Charles Dickens [hopkinsenglish] Inkmesh search Spoiler:
Nominations are now closed. The first voting poll will be going up in the morning, sometime around 8:00 AM EST or so. Special thanks to dreams for all the help at a time when I'm a bit unusually swamped. Last edited by dreams; 05-21-2012 at 02:03 PM. Reason: added links / WT Sharpe thru #42 |
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05-20-2012, 01:10 AM | #3 | |
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I'd like to nominate Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
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05-20-2012, 03:46 AM | #4 |
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I'm not entirely what classifies as a "classic" but I nominate
Fer-de Lance by Rex Stout (The first Nero Wolfe book) It is the first in a very long, both in time and numbers, successful detective series. About the series (from Wikipedia): Spoiler:
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05-20-2012, 05:06 AM | #5 |
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I'll nominate Persuasion by Jane Austen.
This was the final complete novel written by Austen and has an autumnal quality. The characters are more sensitively developed than those in her earlier novels and she presents a realistic construct of one of her favourite themes: the strange dichotomy and parallelism that exists between Social Manners and Moral Behaviour. But she doesn't get bogged down in a theme--she creates a brilliant and vivid portrait of her world and the kinds of individuals--good, bad, and indifferent--who populate it. BTW I nominated this for the Literary Book club June of last year, though it didn't win. So I'm not sure if it's eligible to be nominated again. It is easily available as a free download from Project Gutenberg in many formats. Last edited by fantasyfan; 05-20-2012 at 08:23 AM. |
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Hemmingway's Old Man and the Sea.
I'm hoping this counts as a classic because I have it on my own personal classics challenge this year. Quote:
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I nominate The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
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05-20-2012, 08:03 AM | #8 | |
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caleb's beat me to Hemingway, but I'm forging ahead anyway. I'd like to nominate A Moveable Feast. The blurb from Goodreads:
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05-20-2012, 08:27 AM | #9 |
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I'll second A Movable Feast. It sounds fascinating.
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I'll start off by nominating H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds.
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I'll second The War of the Worlds.
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05-20-2012, 09:30 AM | #13 |
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05-20-2012, 09:30 AM | #14 |
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Good choice, Jon. I'll third War of the Worlds.
Also: I think, therefore I am nominating Discourse on the Method by René Descartes (parts I-VI). Inkmesh search Spoiler:
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