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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett | 6 | 75.00% | |
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Carey Elwes | 3 | 37.50% | |
Nation by Terry Pratchett | 3 | 37.50% | |
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal | 3 | 37.50% | |
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow | 4 | 50.00% | |
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple | 3 | 37.50% | |
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02-07-2020, 06:54 AM | #1 |
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Vote for March 2020 • As You Wish: Anything Goes
It's time to select the book we'll read and discuss in March 2020. We love new participants. We're happy for you to vote, but in the interest of a vibrant conversation, we'd like to request that you not vote unless you plan to join the discussion whatever the selection. So if you haven't posted in a book club thread yet, do please say a quick hello here or in the Welcome thread. This is a poll. Vote for as many books as you'd like. Questions? FAQs | Guidelines Or just ask! Choices: The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett Public Domain in Canada Spoiler:
213 pp.
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Carey Elwes Amazon US $12.99 Spoiler:
259 pp.
Nation by Terry Pratchett US$9.99; CA$11.89; GB£4.99; AU$11.99 Spoiler:
367 pp.
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Amazon US $4.99 Spoiler:
431 pp.
The Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow Amazon U.S., $15.99 Spoiler:
690 pp.
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple US$4.99; AU$9.99; CA$11.99; UK£6.49 Spoiler:
352 pp.
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02-07-2020, 11:19 PM | #2 |
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The Maltese Falcon is a favorite of mine, but does it matter that it was already a selection in June, 2011?
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02-08-2020, 12:02 AM | #3 |
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That's fine, as long as it is 5 years or more ago it is eligible. Thanks for pointing that out though, it might sway some people one way or another even if it is eligible.
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02-08-2020, 12:26 AM | #4 |
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Hey, folks. I'm going to pass on voting this month. I'll try to read whatever is selected, but I'm not at all sure I'll be able to. "Life" is intruding again, and I don't want to skew the results if I'm reasonably sure I might not be able to read the selection.
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02-08-2020, 01:18 AM | #5 |
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Nine years ago in a different club with probably one or two New Leaf members at most having been involved? I can't see that it should be of any concern.
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02-08-2020, 09:17 AM | #6 |
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Hmm, a lot of wait-and-see this month!
I don't like to vote for more than half and while I've got it down to four, I'm not sure about jettisoning the book in fourth place. |
02-08-2020, 12:35 PM | #7 |
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I was in the same boat, wanted to choose 4 but don't like choosing more than 3. In the end this quote decided it for me:
It is weird that we've nominated one book and one memoir for a movie where issybird thinks the movies are better than the books though. That can't happen often. Edit: The thread with that quote is full of spoilers, beware! |
02-08-2020, 04:31 PM | #8 |
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02-08-2020, 05:03 PM | #9 |
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The previous discussion for Maltese Falcon.
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02-08-2020, 05:45 PM | #10 |
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That cast and director would be pretty stiff competition for any book. But that said, sometimes it’s interesting to read the book behind great movies.
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02-10-2020, 04:21 PM | #11 |
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This is the first time we have selected a book that the MRBC had already talked about. The Literary Club has done so a couple times with A Passage to India (Nov 2008 / Aug 2011) and The Woman in White (Dec 2010 / May 2019) but this is a first for the NLBC.
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02-10-2020, 05:15 PM | #12 |
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So ... is this one of the handful of titles where the movie is better than the book? I don't believe I've ever seen the movie, only bits and pieces of it--or if I did see it, it was so long ago that I don't remember it.
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02-10-2020, 05:26 PM | #13 |
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The movie is very good indeed. It’s so long since I read the book that I can’t recall it in any detail at all. My overall feeling about Hammett’s books versus those of Raymond Chandler is that I thought Chandler was better, back when I was reading them. No doubt we shall be discussing style as well as content in due course.
I must confess that I’m glad this book won as it’s a short one and I have a lot on my plate in coming weeks. |
02-10-2020, 07:17 PM | #14 |
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I haven’t read the book but I’m very curious about it because of the movie. Usually, I make a point of reading the books first. But in this case, the movie is so iconic, and has permeated popular culture so deeply that it’s hard to escape references, even if you’ve never seen it. So it should be a fun read.
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02-11-2020, 10:15 AM | #15 |
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The original version of The Maltese Falcon first appeared in Black Mask Stories from Sept. 1929 to Jan. 1930. It was revised and published in Feb. 1930. There were very many changes made in the novel and some evidently prefer the original. If anyone is interested Audible has that first version.
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