View Poll Results: Please vote for the book you would like to read in December by December 1st.

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  • The Conservationist

    2 28.57%

  • Mercier and Camier

    1 14.29%

  • A House for Mr. Biswas

    3 42.86%

  • The Golden Notebook

    1 14.29%
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Thread: December '12 / Nobel Winners Reading Poll

  1. 10-03-2012, 04:38 AM #1
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    December '12 / Nobel Winners Reading Poll

    Please nominate the winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction (along with one of their books) you would like to read in December in this thread by October 31st.

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    - One nomination per member.

    - Only the first 10 nominations will be included in the poll.


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  2. 10-03-2012, 06:11 AM #2
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    The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
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  3. 10-04-2012, 06:40 AM #3
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    Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett.

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  4. 10-04-2012, 04:01 PM #4
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    A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

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  5. 10-11-2012, 03:45 PM #5
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    The Golden Notebook - Doris lessing
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  6. 11-18-2012, 07:29 PM #6
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    Need to break the three-way tie!
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  7. 11-18-2012, 11:34 PM #7
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    Oh dear, I voted for Biswas, thinking Dark Muse had voted for it. So now we have a four way tie...

    I should have looked more closely!
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  8. 11-18-2012, 11:43 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by mona amon View Post
    Oh dear, I voted for Biswas, thinking Dark Muse had voted for it. So now we have a four way tie...

    I should have looked more closely!
    Haha didn't mean to trip you up.

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  9. 11-19-2012, 05:50 AM #9
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    Tie broken

    Though The Golden Notebook is very, very good.
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  10. 11-21-2012, 08:26 AM #10
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    I would be interested in reading any of these books, truth be told.

    All sound like great reads.

    And another tie just as I have ordered my copy of The Conservationist!
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  11. 11-22-2012, 10:26 PM #11
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    I'm not ordering The Consevationist until the last minute, if it does win, because when I've read Nadine Gordimer before (not this one) I found her quite hard work (although I acknowledge that authors of her abilities can write very different books) and I've already started Mr Biswas and am loving that, so fingers crossed
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  12. 11-30-2012, 05:03 AM #12
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    Going once...
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  13. 12-01-2012, 07:21 AM #13
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    Going twice...
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  14. 12-06-2012, 11:22 AM #14
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    So when is the Biswas thread starting, or where is it starting?
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