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Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy |
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5 | 23.81% |
Hiroshima by John Hersey |
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9 | 42.86% |
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie |
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4 | 19.05% |
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux |
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8 | 38.10% |
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke |
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7 | 33.33% |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl |
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6 | 28.57% |
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling |
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7 | 33.33% |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace |
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3 | 14.29% |
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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13 | 61.90% |
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September 2016 Book Club Vote
![]() Help us choose a book as the September 2016 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is ![]() We will start the discussion thread for this book on September 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Goodreads | Amazon US / Audible / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US Print Length: 512 pages Spoiler:
• Hiroshima by John Hersey Goodreads | Amazon Ca / Amazon UK / Audible (1) / Audible (2) / Kobo Ca (1) / Kobo Ca (2) Print Length: 135 pages Spoiler:
• Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie Goodreads | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle | Amazon US / Amazon US (Restored) / Barnes & Noble / Kobo US Print Length: 166 pages Spoiler:
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Goodreads | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: ePub / Kindle | Amazon US Print Length: 270 pages Spoiler:
• 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Kobo Ca Print Length: 324 pages Spoiler:
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Goodreads | Amazon UK / Amazon US / Google Play / Kobo US / Overdrive / Sainsbury's UK Print Length: 180 pages Spoiler:
• Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Goodreads | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle (1) / Kindle (2) / ePub (1) / ePub (2) Print Length: 162 pages Spoiler:
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace Goodreads | Amazon US (1) / Amazon US (2) / Barnes & Noble (1) / Barnes & Noble (2) / Kobo US Print Length: 544 pages Spoiler:
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Goodreads | Patricia Clark Memorial Library: Kindle | Amazon US / Audible / Kobo US / Overdrive Audiobook (1) / Overdrive Audiobook (2) / Overdrive eBook Print Length: 82 pages Spoiler:
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Well, from the early voting, it appears we have a very broad range of support for this month's nominations. That's encouraging, and hopefully we'll have a lovely runoff with lots of final choices. Of course, I'm personally hoping we choose Hiroshima. I'll be listening to the Ed Asner reading of that regardless of the outcome. Just as soon as I finish my current mindless twaddle.
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I find it funny that my favourite book from childhood (when I could choose my own books) and my most loathed book from my teenage years (when books were forced upon me) are both on that list.
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I'm completely uninterested in Charlie. It didn't exist when I was of an age to find it interesting, and I just can't get excited now. OTOH, I somehow missed having Heart of Darkness enforced on me, and there's a very good audio book version, with narration by "Frederick Davidson" (real name, David Case), one of my all time favourite narrators. Other good narration choices, by the way, include Far from the Madding Crowd, Hiroshima, Captains Courageous (which I read for the first time about a year ago), and Peter Pan (either Jim Dale or Donada Peters). |
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And of course one of the books that I have wanted to read for a long time. A classic science fiction.
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It's time to vote for the Ommpa-Loompas. And the only book you'll find them in from the list is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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No, let's try not reading a children's book for our Classics month. Instead, can I suggest the seminal work by John Hersey, Hiroshima. This is the 70th anniversary of it's printing in The New Yorker, and it's a short, but powerful work that we can have a good discussion with. Really, folks, even though I would read Hardy's Heart of Darkness, I can't say I'm looking forward to it.
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Not likely to participate in discussion so I won't vote. I've got a list of books of higher priority that is so long I'd have to live another six decades to get through. I do thank CRussel for bringing Hiroshima to my attention though. It's short enough that I hope to read it in the near future. There is also a more straight up scientific and ahem cold blooded account here that is reasonably short and fascinating in its own way.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...om_search=true The other titles all would be second reads, except the Hardy novel. Tess of the d'Urbervilles satisfied a life time need for Hardy for me. What's with all the children's books? |
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You're welcome, Hamlet53, I hope you find it interesting and stimulating.
The whole point to Hiroshima is that it isn't cold-blooded and scientific, but rather a very personal account of the effects on individuals who survived. As told directly to John Hersey who went to Hiroshima "while the ground was still warm". I neither need nor want to read the cold blooded scientific facts of a nuclear bomb -- I grew up understanding those all too well. What interests me, and the reason I nominated Hiroshima, is the story of people. When I read, whether fiction or non-fiction, it's almost always about the people or characters that keeps me interested and reading. |
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Interesting vote this time. I am a little surprised to see Heart of Darkness in the lead, I haven't read it but isn't it one that many people are forced to read in school? That tends to leave a bad taste behind.
Three tied for second right now - Hiroshima (non-fiction account of the aftermath of using the bomb), 2001: A Space Odyssey (science fiction with a movie that is more well known than the book), and Captains Courageous (coming of age on the high seas) - all of which are very different from each other. I suspect Hiroshima doesn't have more votes because of US availability, it doesn't appear to be available from the Amazon US Kindle store at least. Side note: I probably won't get the selections thread updated for about a week due to other issues. Should be updated before next month's nominations start though. |
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