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View Poll Results: April 2010 Mobile Read Book Club Vote | |||
The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald | 19 | 25.33% | |
Topper by Thorne Smith | 5 | 6.67% | |
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole | 10 | 13.33% | |
My man Jeeves by P G Wodehouse | 2 | 2.67% | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain | 7 | 9.33% | |
Fool by Christopher Moore | 3 | 4.00% | |
Augustus Carp, Esq. - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man by Henry Bashford | 0 | 0% | |
A Damon Runyon Omnibus | 1 | 1.33% | |
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore | 10 | 13.33% | |
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde | 16 | 21.33% | |
Candide by Voltaire | 2 | 2.67% | |
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03-27-2010, 08:02 AM | #61 | |
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So now I'm torn between The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde and the two Christopher Moore books, Fool and Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. Among the ones I've read, Topper by Thorne Smith blows me away, My man Jeeves by P G Wodehouse is always enjoyable, Candide by Voltaire is thought-provoking (I've read it three times, I believe), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is not as enjoyable as I expected. I'm now leaning toward Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. |
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03-27-2010, 08:04 AM | #62 |
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03-27-2010, 09:08 AM | #63 |
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03-27-2010, 12:13 PM | #66 |
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I'm not sure which to vote for. At first, I thought Topper would be tops... but alas if I'm being Candide I was Fooled by My Man Jeeves into believing all you voters were a Confederacy of Dunces and would be led like Lambs to the slaughter.
So, as not to be led by the nose in this Eyre Affair my chicken, Egg and I must consider further. For I don't want to be like a Carp out of water, like a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court. Perhaps there is an Omnibus of all the selections that I could vote for. Oh the pressure. BOb |
03-27-2010, 12:18 PM | #67 | |
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03-27-2010, 12:25 PM | #68 |
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Ford Prefect is funnier, but no one thirded And Another Thing.
And what's the idea of giving PilotBOb Karma after the way he PUNished us in Post #66? Last edited by WT Sharpe; 03-27-2010 at 12:27 PM. |
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Mr. Jeremy Garnet stood with his back to the empty grate—for the time was summer—watching with a jaundiced eye the removal of his breakfast things. "Mrs. Medley," he said. "Sir?" "Would it bore you if I became auto-biographical?" "Sir?" "Never mind. I merely wish to sketch for your benefit a portion of my life's history. At eleven o'clock last night I went to bed, and at once sank into a dreamless sleep. About four hours later there was a clattering on the stairs which shook the house like a jelly. It was the gentleman in the top room—I forget his name—returning to roost. He was humming a patriotic song. A little while later there were a couple of loud crashes. He had removed his boots. All this while snatches of the patriotic song came to me through the ceiling of my bedroom. At about four-thirty there was a lull, and I managed to get to sleep again. I wish when you see that gentleman, Mrs. Medley, you would give him my compliments, and ask him if he could shorten his program another night. He might cut out the song, for a start." "He's a very young gentleman, sir," said Mrs. Medley, in vague defense of her top room. "And it's highly improbable," said Garnet, "that he will ever grow old, if he repeats his last night's performance. I have no wish to shed blood wantonly, but there are moments when one must lay aside one's personal prejudices, and act for the good of the race. A man who hums patriotic songs at four o'clock in the morning doesn't seem to me to fit into the scheme of universal happiness. So you will mention it to him, won't you?" "Very well, sir," said Mrs. Medley, placidly. .... |
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I think that more people should vote for A Confederacy of Dunces. Here are a few lines from the book.
"I am at this moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip." "… My respiratory system, unfortunately, is below par. I suspect that I am the result of particularly weak conception on the part of my father. His sperm was probably emitted in a rather offhand manner." "Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours." “It smells terrible in here.” “Well, what do you expect? The human body when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I ,too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.” |
03-28-2010, 03:23 AM | #73 | |
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03-28-2010, 03:24 AM | #74 |
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I voted for the Egg and I... It sounds hilarious, and it's free...
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03-28-2010, 06:48 AM | #75 |
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