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View Poll Results: Which region should we use for nominations this month? | |||
Ireland & The U.K. | 2 | 18.18% | |
North & Central Europe | 2 | 18.18% | |
Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain & France | 0 | 0% | |
Southeast Europe | 3 | 27.27% | |
North Africa & The Middle East | 3 | 27.27% | |
Sub Saharan Africa | 3 | 27.27% | |
Central Asia, East Europe & Russia | 4 | 36.36% | |
South Asia | 1 | 9.09% | |
The Korean Peninsula, Mongolia & China | 2 | 18.18% | |
Japan | 2 | 18.18% | |
Southeast Asia | 3 | 27.27% | |
The South Pacific | 3 | 27.27% | |
Canada & The U.S.A. | 3 | 27.27% | |
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11-04-2012, 08:23 AM | #16 |
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paola you're actually fourthing Purge.
And that makes two fully nominated works and a little under a day left to go. |
11-04-2012, 08:33 AM | #17 |
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I'll fourth Doctor Zhivago.
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11-04-2012, 10:06 AM | #18 | |
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another little blunder is that I added a nomination by editing a message instead of adding another one, so I don't think you've seen my "Silent Steppe" nomination. |
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11-04-2012, 10:54 AM | #19 |
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Ah yes, I missed that edit! I edit sometimes too like that, but somehow I always manage to catch mine.
And I'll use my last nomination to second Silent Steppe. Sounds pretty interesting, and using your link and clicking through to see all the "used & new" buying options, it's actually not that much for a used copy. ~ As and aside, I'm surprised at the lack of support for Off the Beaten Tracks. It's not a tome, it's new and fresh, it's a salt-of-the-earth Russian travelogue by Russian writers and it seems to have a literary slant, and it's available as an e-book in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia! |
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I'll second The Silent Steppe. Here in the US, libraries that borrow from WorldCat shouldn't have a problem obtaining a copy. ETA: That would be a third for Silent Steppe. I was typing as sun surfer was posting. Last edited by issybird; 11-04-2012 at 11:11 AM. |
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...and it's now in my kindle and in the reading queue - thanks sun surfer for making me aware of it! |
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11-04-2012, 07:20 PM | #23 |
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Glad it interests you; hope you like it. I'm tempted to read it regardless as well.
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11-05-2012, 08:56 AM | #25 |
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Nominations are now closed. The poll will be up shortly.
It reminds me of those song lyrics, "It's sad, so sad; it's a sad, sad situation." The Silent Steppe was so close and only because of circumstances didn't make it. It turns out there's many copies of it available used, and at good prices too, but that's not obvious when one first looks at the Amazon page for it. But for the vote it still would've had only being a physical book against it anyway. I will say this - I like all the nominations including of course my own, but if The Silent Steppe had made it to the vote I was going to put all my eggs in one basket and only vote for it because it really piqued my interest. |
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but then I should woken up earlier and proposed it from the start - indeed I am also very sorry I did not manage to fourth Off the beaten track..., that'll teach me for next time! As we say, "Chi ha tempo non aspetti tempo" (roughly, "Time waits for no man") |
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11-05-2012, 05:02 PM | #27 |
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The Silent Steppe would have been a great choice; perfect for my purposes. People (I'm looking at you, Paola and Hamlet53) need to stop being so coy!
The silver lining is that now I know about it. |
11-06-2012, 07:05 AM | #28 | |
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The first is Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov. This is a very good book set in Kiev during the German occupation of WWII. The second is And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov. I actually read this way back in high school, being inspired to it by taking an elective course in Russian history. This is actually the first half of a two novel epic about a family of Don Cossacks set over the crucial period from just prior to WWI through the following civil war in Russia. Last edited by Hamlet53; 11-06-2012 at 07:57 AM. |
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Did you also not nominate these because you were worried about their availability? Because looking on Amazon, And Quiet Flows the Don has many cheap used copies and is also available as an e-book. And Babi Yar has plenty of used physical copies for a good price (though again, the page doesn't make this clear for either one at first). Although, there are two editions of Babi Yar, and the older one with more used availability might be expurgated since the newer, more expensive one is listed as the "new, complete, uncensored version". |
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