10-19-2013, 06:10 PM | #1 |
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November 2013 Book Club Nominations
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November 2013 Nominations Help us select the book that the MobileRead Book Club will read for November, 2013. The nominations will run through midnight EST October 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days. Book selection category for November is: Books originally written in a language other than English 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 poll 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 initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed. The floor is open to nominations. Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area. Official choices with three nominations each: (1) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Patricia Clark Memorial Library Spoiler:
(2) All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
(3) Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner Amazon (US)/Kobo Spoiler:
(4) The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago Amazon (US)/Amazon (UK)/Amazon (CA)/ B&N (US)/Kobo or Kobo/Google Play (AUS) or Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
(5) Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Amazon (US) Spoiler:
(6) The Dinner by Herman Koch Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
(7) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn No links provided. Spoiler:
(8) White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia by Jacek Hugo-Bader Amazon (UK) Spoiler:
(9) The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hidayat Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S. / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
(10) Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko OverDrive (US)/OverDrive (Non-US)/Amazon (UK)/Amazon (CA)/ Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
The nominations are now closed. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 10-22-2013 at 06:44 AM. Reason: Thru #48 |
10-19-2013, 09:35 PM | #2 |
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Wondering if a particular book is available in your country? The following spoiler contains a list of bookstores outside the United States you can search. If you don't see a bookstore on this list for your country, find one that is, send me the link via PM, and I'll add it to the list. In addition, if members let me know that an ebook is unavailable in a particular geographic location, I'll note it in this post, right beside the Inkmesh search for that particular book.
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Nominations *** Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis [sun surfer, Stephjk, Hamlet53] Amazon (US) Spoiler:
*** The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago [caleb72, issybird, Hamlet53] Amazon (US)/Amazon (UK)/Amazon (CA)/ B&N (US)/Kobo or Kobo/Google Play (AUS) or Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
*** White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia by Jacek Hugo-Bader [Aggie, desertblues, sun surfer] Amazon (UK) Spoiler:
*** The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas [John F, fantasyfan, pdurrant] Patricia Clark Memorial Library Spoiler:
*** Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner [issybird, fantasyfan, Billi] Amazon (US)/Kobo Spoiler:
*** Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko [John F, Aggie, sqdancer] OverDrive (US)/OverDrive (Non-US)/Amazon (UK)/Amazon (CA)/ Google Play (AUS) Spoiler:
*** All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque [fantasyfan, issybird, John F] Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
*** The Dinner by Herman Koch [desertblues, Stephjk, odiakkoh] Amazon CA / Amazon UK / Amazon US Spoiler:
*** One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn [chromedome, Billi, Bookpossum] No links provided. Spoiler:
*** The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hidayat [sun surfer, WT Sharpe, desertblues] Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S. / Bookworld Australia Spoiler:
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10-20-2013, 01:09 AM | #3 |
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I nominate Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
From Amazon: This classic novel, the basis for the Oscar-winning 1964 film of the same name, vividly portrays the complex and multifaceted friendship between a young Greek intellectual and Alexis Zorba, a sixty-year-old swashbuckling Romanian-born Greek whose bullish charm and self-professed excellence as a chef, miner, and musician immediately draws the young man to hire him as a foreman in an ambitious new mining venture in Crete. Though the two men disagree on much, their conversations will open the young man’s eyes to a world that bears little resemblance to the one he thinks he knows from his books. Suffused with the colorful atmosphere of the Mediterranean and the sly wisdom of its unforgettable title character, Zorba the Greek has found its way into the hearts of readers around the globe. Link: Amazon U.S. I was also considering nominating any of Berlin Alexanderplatz, the children's book Pippi Longstocking or, even though it's for November, something darker for Halloween-time in Perfume: Story of a Murderer, but as far as I could find, none of them are available as an ebook unfortunately. Looking forward to see what else is nominated this month! |
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I would like to put forward The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago. I will be happy to endorse any nomination for this Noble Prize winning author. I've chosen this one because I have a particular interest in fictional portrayals of key religious figures and I enjoyed Saramago's Cain.
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Amazon (UK): LINK Amazon (CA): LINK B&N (US): LINK Kobo (I think this is AUS): LINK or LINK Google Play (AUS): LINK or LINK There is some availability in Overdrive in Canada and the US although it's not as extensive as I would have liked. People who are able to loan ebooks through Amazon in the US might find availability also. Again, not as broadly as I would have liked. |
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I would like to nominate "White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia" by Polish traveler Jacek Hugo-Bader. I read other book of this author (unfortunately not available in English) and it was amazing!
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I'll nominate The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
An Amazon blurb: Quote:
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10-20-2013, 08:08 AM | #7 |
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I'll second The Count of Monte Cristo.
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10-20-2013, 08:22 AM | #8 |
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I'll second Zorba the Greek
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10-20-2013, 08:30 AM | #9 |
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I'll third The Count of Monte Cristo.
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10-20-2013, 09:14 AM | #10 |
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I'll second The Gospel According to Jesus Christ .
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I'd like to nominate Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist by Erich Kästner.
Kästner is most famous for his children's book Emil and the Detectives. But he also wrote adult fiction, until the Nazis burned his books in 1933. He refused to leave Germany, but trying to live under the regime essentially destroyed his career as a novelist. Quote:
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10-20-2013, 10:32 AM | #12 | |
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I'll nominate Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
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10-20-2013, 10:54 AM | #13 |
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I'll second Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
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Here's some non-US links to add: Google Play (AUS): LINK Amazon (UK): LINK Amazon (CA): LINK EDIT: I tell a lie. The original library link was for US only. However, this link adds a few more countries: Overdrive (non-US): LINK Last edited by caleb72; 10-20-2013 at 11:06 AM. |
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10-20-2013, 12:47 PM | #15 |
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I'll nominate All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. This is arguably the greatest Anti-war novel ever written. Told from the perspective of a German soldier, one soon becomes part of the universal human tragedy that caught up all those whatever their nationality. The book is a powerful and moving cry that is relevant yet.
From Wikipedia: "All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. It sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first eighteen months in print." Kindle editions are available at Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Wester...+Western+Front and Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Western-...+Western+Front Epub versions are available through Kobo, Feedbooks, and the iTunes book store. Last edited by fantasyfan; 10-20-2013 at 12:54 PM. |
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