09-22-2017, 05:38 PM | #46 |
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Jon's out of nominations so I will go ahead and third Alice, Let's Eat. I have requested it from my library and hopefully they will deliver ...
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09-23-2017, 11:36 AM | #47 |
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I second Breakup. I've read books 1-6 and should this one win, well that would be convenient.
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09-23-2017, 03:44 PM | #48 |
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I'd made and posted ePub & KF8 versions of England, Their England.
ePub: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3584476 KF8: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=3584477 These are hand crafted from the HTML found over at Faded Page. The ePub they have posted there has gaps in the text that are not in the HTML. |
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09-23-2017, 05:45 PM | #53 |
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Is this gong to come down to a two book vote? Come on people two more nods for Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! to get at least three books.
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09-23-2017, 08:21 PM | #54 |
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I'm going to engage in a little rantiness. I thought of a good nomination, but when I checked the price, it was $11.99 on a 70-year old novel! That's insanity. It's available on OverDrive, but OD libraries are all over the spectrum in terms of holdings and there's the availability issue, also. Similarly, I love Alice, Let's Eat, but it's another backlist book that's overpriced, IMO, and with the same culprit: PRH. Nothing new here, but it certainly gums up book club nominations'
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I'm with you on this. 11.99 is too much for a 70year old book.
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So given that we have only two fully nominated books and one is too expensive, it seems like there's only one real choice.
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09-24-2017, 05:33 AM | #57 |
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I'll second The Milagro Beanfield War.
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09-24-2017, 05:46 AM | #58 |
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This is $9.99 in the US. There's no good reason for it. Gotta love how publishers are now gouging the public. This used to be a MMPB (mass market paperback). But in order to raise prices for the pBook and the eBook, they stopped printing a MMPB version are are printing a different paperback format and are now charging $14-$15 for the pBook. This is how they get to gouge the consumers on an old book.
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And yet a book you seconded is $9.99. |
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From an author who, so far as I know, was the first person to use the word "booger" in a daily newspaper column: I nominate The Worst Class Trip Ever (Class Trip, Book 1) by Dave Barry.
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