11-20-2010, 11:55 AM | #1 |
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December 2010 Book Club Nominations
Help us select the next book that the Mobile Read book club will read for December 2010.
The nominations will run through Nov 25 or until 10 books have made the list. Voting (new poll thread) will run for 5 days starting Nov 25. Book selection category for December per the "official" club opening thread is: December 2010 Classic In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third). How Does This Work? The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome. How Does a Book Get Selected? Each book that is nominated will be listed in a pool at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection. How Many Nominations Can I Make? Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person. How Do I Nominate a Book? Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest. How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated? Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP. When is the Poll? The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Official choices each with three nominations: *** (3) - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [GA Russell, montsnmags, adityadubey] upload on MR by Roy White lrf & mobi/prc | upload by =X= lrf & mobi/prc & IMP | feedbooks | manybooks Spoiler:
*** (3) - Walden by Henry David Thoreau [twobits, lila55, montsnmags] upload on MR by Strether lrf & mobi/prc | feedbooks | Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
*** (3) - Call of the Wild by Jack London [voodooblues, doreenjoy, lene1949] upload on MR by Madam Broshkina lrf & mobi/prc | feedbooks Spoiler:
*** (3) - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [adityadubey, doreenjoy, lene1949] Upload on MR by HarryT (Illustrated) epub & lrf & mobi/prc | Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
*** (3) - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [lila55, lilac_jive, Altoanto] Upload on MR by HarryT lrf & mobi/prc | Upload by AlexBell (Illustrated) epub | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** (3) - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas [lene1949, adityadubey, Altoanto] Uploaded on MR by HarryT lrf & epub & mobi/prc | Uploaded by crutledge mobi/prc | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** (3) - A Room With A View by E. M. Forster [montsnmags, Ea, edbro] Uploaded on MR by weatherwax epub | Upload by BenG lrf | Upload by MicheleC mobi/prc | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
***(3) - War of the Worlds by H G Wells [NickC42, Altoanto,voodooblues] Uploaded by HarryT epub & mobi/prc & lrf | Upload by JSWolf lrf | Project Gutenberg | feedbooks | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** (3) - Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain [jgaiser, voodooblues, jswolf] upload on MR by Madam Broshkina mobi/prc & IMP | feedbooks Spoiler:
*** (3) - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë [latinandgreek, edbro, drofgnal] upload on MR by HarryT epub & Mobi/PRC Spoiler:
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11-20-2010, 01:26 PM | #2 |
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Cue the debate about how old a book must be to be considered a classic!
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Was my first question as well. Been wanting to read Walden, but that is what 150ish years old. So it is maybe an American classic, but it is no Illiad, or Beowulf etc.... so not sure what is expected as 'classics' yet.
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The book must be in the Public Domain in the US to qualify.
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It's good enough for me, Bob, but I can think of someone who won't agree!
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11-20-2010, 03:22 PM | #7 |
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*** (3) - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [GA Russell, montsnmags, adityadubey] upload on MR by Roy White lrf & mobi/prc | upload by =X= lrf & mobi/prc & IMP | feedbooks | manybooks Spoiler:
*** (3) - Walden by Henry David Thoreau [twobits, lila55, montsnmags] upload on MR by Strether lrf & mobi/prc | feedbooks | Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
(2) - Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain [jgaiser, voodooblues] upload on MR by Madam Broshkina mobi/prc & IMP | feedbooks Spoiler:
*** (3) - Call of the Wild by Jack London [voodooblues, doreenjoy, lene1949] upload on MR by Madam Broshkina lrf & mobi/prc | feedbooks Spoiler:
(1) - A Sportsman's Sketches by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev [bokolobs] Upload on MR by Patricia Clark lrf & mobi/prc & IMP | Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
*** (3) - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [adityadubey, doreenjoy, lene1949] Upload on MR by HarryT (Illustrated) epub & lrf & mobi/prc | Project Gutenberg Spoiler:
*** (3) - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins [lila55, lilac_jive, Altoanto] Upload on MR by HarryT lrf & mobi/prc | Upload by AlexBell (Illustrated) epub | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** (3) - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas [lene1949, adityadubey, Altoanto] Uploaded on MR by HarryT lrf & epub & mobi/prc | Uploaded by crutledge mobi/prc | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
*** (3) - A Room With A View by E. M. Forster [montsnmags, Ea, edbro] Uploaded on MR by weatherwax epub | Upload by BenG lrf | Upload by MicheleC mobi/prc | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
***(3) - War of the Worlds by H G Wells [NickC42, Altoanto,voodooblues] Uploaded by HarryT epub & mobi/prc & lrf | Upload by JSWolf lrf | Project Gutenberg | feedbooks | Inkmesh search Spoiler:
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All right, I'll start.
When I got my jetBook Lite for Christmas, it was with the specific intention to read The Brothers Karamasov in 2010. Well, I've got one month to go, and I still haven't started it yet! This would be a great reason to keep my New Year's resolution. Here's the MR link: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ight=Karamasov The Washington Post says: "[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art – his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book." (quoted at Amazon's website) |
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Walden, by Henry David Thoreau One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other topics. |
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Well, since everybody's reading Mark Twain's Autobiography these days how abount an election of a Twain book.
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi found right here on MR. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River. In the second half, the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new, large cities, and his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. |
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walden sounds good to me!
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I nominate "Call of the Wild" by Jack London.
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I second "Life on the Mississippi"
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