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View Poll Results: August 2009 Mobile Read Book Club Vote
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 28 29.79%
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow 19 20.21%
Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy 4 4.26%
The Road Home by Rose Tremain 4 4.26%
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow 12 12.77%
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 13 13.83%
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith 14 14.89%
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Old 07-29-2009, 08:15 AM   #16
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Since I have recently read 1984 I am voting for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow because I like the sound of it...
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If an entry in the poll is removed, can the people who voted for it be able to vote again? I'd like to see the wasted Lovecraft votes go to a book that actually fits the August topic.
I think the six people who voted for Lovecraft would disagree with you.
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If an entry in the poll is removed, can the people who voted for it be able to vote again? I'd like to see the wasted Lovecraft votes go to a book that actually fits the August topic.
Three people nominated it so that's good 'nuff for me. This is just for fun club... the only rule is...

TALK ABOUT BOOK CLUB!!!

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Three people nominated it so that's good 'nuff for me. This is just for fun club... the only rule is...

TALK ABOUT BOOK CLUB!!!

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Don't you mean, don't talk about book club?

Sorry, that was just asking for a Fight Club Reference.
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But if we are going to have categories, why not stick with them? We agreed to change the August category to instead of being a book about recent times to a book written in recent times. And Lovecraft does not fit at all.
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Don't you mean, don't talk about book club?

Sorry, that was just asking for a Fight Club Reference.
And if it's your first night at Book Club, you have to read.
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Don't you mean, don't talk about book club?

Sorry, that was just asking for a Fight Club Reference.
Yes, it was a take on the Fight Club rule. But, we don't want Book Club to be a secret... so I took literary license.

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so I took literary license.
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Lovecraft ain't the oldest book on the list.
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Maybe then we need to go back and look at what we decided vs. what we have and redo what needs redoing.
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Maybe then we need to go back and look at what we decided vs. what we have and redo what needs redoing.
I don't think we need to do that. If one of those books win, se la vi.

From now on, we should bring these things up in the nomination thread.

That said, the three books getting the most votes all have post WWII publish dates.

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How did the Lovecraft book get in the voting? It's too old having been written in the 1930s.

And I voted for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
The Bellamy piece was written in the 19th century and 1984 was in written in the 40s. It does have the aspect of dystopia about it. Its just from the vantage point of another species which has discovered the remains of a previous one.

Voted for Looking Backward, though. I've been curious about that since reading about it in A People's History of the United States.
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I voted for No. 1. I totally love it, and I'd like to talk with people about this book =)
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1984 was discussed to death in English class. Been there, done that and don't want to do it again. Let's do something different then what most of us have already done in school.
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1984 was discussed to death in English class. Been there, done that and don't want to do it again. Let's do something different then what most of us have already done in school.
You're so lucky you got to discuss such interesting literature in English class. I didn't
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