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View Poll Results: Should we change one of the classic months to another genre? | |||
Yes - Change it | 12 | 30.77% | |
No - Leave it as it is | 20 | 51.28% | |
Either way is fine with me | 7 | 17.95% | |
Voters: 39. You may not vote on this poll |
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07-23-2011, 06:14 PM | #1 |
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Duplicate Classic Genre month poll
Attention Mobile Read Book Club members:
There has been some discussion about re-working the monthly genre list so that there are not two months devoted to classics. The genre list was hashed our a few years ago. So, please vote in this poll as to if you feel we should keep the two classic months or change one to another genre of some type. Thanks, BOb - MRBC Grand Poobah |
07-23-2011, 06:26 PM | #2 |
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I'm still grumbling that someone could come into a thread and claim that he had 100% support for his position (easily disproved by scrolling upward) and essentially force a poll. But I've voted. Sigh.
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07-23-2011, 07:20 PM | #4 |
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I voted and it isn't "Change it".
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07-23-2011, 08:36 PM | #5 | |
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But anyway, the poll will say it all and if we are keeping classic for December, I'm going to nominate a modern classic once I find a good one. |
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Sorry for the duplicate, but I posted this in the other thread (from my phone) before I realized I was supposed to post it here.:
I have voted in the poll and would like to see either: 1. Pulitzer prize winners 2. Action/Adventure or 3. Historical Fiction Thanks! |
07-23-2011, 09:29 PM | #8 |
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Some suggestions from the other thread:
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I don't particularly care for the idea of the "award month" book being "the Montgomery County Ladies' Quilting Club Newsletter Best book for reading when your husband is out of town," but I seriously doubt such a book would (1) be nominated, (2) get two or three followup nominations, and (3) win the popular vote. In the meantime, nominating it might pique someone's interest enough to start a discussion thread about "what books do you read when you're stuck alone at home and wish you weren't?" Quote:
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A lot of the beauty and elegance, and therefore emotional impact, of poetry can be lost by bad formatting, in ways that don't affect novels or are relatively easy to fix. (Extra half-inch margins on the novel? Throw it in Calibre & remove them. Extra half-inch margins on the poetry? Throw it in Calbre... and lose all the customized indenting, unless you know how to play with the styles & settings.) [quote]Some possible others Drama, i.e. written for stage performance[quote] I think this also has formatting issues, although not as bad as poetry. I would also worry about a wide enough selection being available, apart from Shakesepeare. Quote:
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Nobel prize for literature: less than 100 authors, many with several works. That's an *incredibly* tiny pool of literature, compared to "classics" or even "Any book available at Mobileread." I wouldn't mind a limited pool of prizes, but I'd rather not point out any one or two as "the ultimate arbitrator of Good Literature Worth Reading." Choosing any one or tiny group of high-prestige, big-name prizes encourages the idea that those are the only prizes that matter. Quote:
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*** If I thought I'd get any support for the idea, I'd push for a month of "derivative, transformative and/or spinoff books"--something based on another work, whether that's a book, movie, or something else. Could include sequels, franchise-novels like Star Trek, books like My Jim and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (And [other] fanfic.) But I don't think enough people would find that a compelling genre of book for discussion. |
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07-24-2011, 01:56 AM | #10 |
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Either way is fine for me. What makes a book enjoyable is quality, not genre, exactly like with people (the word should be gender in this case, but in Italian is the same word so I could not resist adventuring a punch line).
Classic is fine, but probably I have read it if it is good. So the novelty part of the attraction will be partially forfeited. Something new is always welcome, if it is any good. Preferably shortish. That is a plus for a new thing. |
07-24-2011, 09:48 AM | #11 |
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I voted to change it, as I would like to see a month of Nobel/Pulitzer Prize winners, or even two non-fiction months, but two months of classics aren't going to kill me.
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07-24-2011, 09:59 AM | #12 |
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I voted change it.
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07-24-2011, 11:43 AM | #13 |
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If we end up keeping classic in December, I'm going to nominate Harry Potter for the December read.
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