View Poll Results: Which Irish book would you like to read in March?

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  • The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker*

    3 9.68%
  • The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

    1 3.23%
  • Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde*

    2 6.45%
  • Dubliners by James Joyce*

    10 32.26%
  • Watt by Samuel Beckett

    3 9.68%
  • The Master by Colm Tóibín

    0 0%
  • Father’s Music by Dermot Bolger

    1 3.23%
  • The Tain as translated by Cairan Carson

    7 22.58%
  • The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

    1 3.23%
  • The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

    3 9.68%
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Thread: March / Ireland Reading Poll

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    March / Ireland Reading Poll

    In March 2008, we will be reading a book by an Irish author.

    Please nominate the books you would like to read

    (one nomination per member, please)

    by January 31st.

    * Only those books which are available on amazon in English will be included in our poll. *

    Note: Only the first 10 books will be included in the poll.

    ***** E D I T *****

    The poll is open now!

    Please vote for the book you would like to read by March 1st!



    Some information on the books:

    1. The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker*

    2. The Dead School by Patrick McCabe

    3. Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde*

    4. Dubliners by James Joyce*

    5. Watt by Samuel Beckett

    6. The Master by Colm Tóibín

    7. Father’s Music by Dermot Bolger

    8. The Tain as translated by Cairan Carson

    9. The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor

    10. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
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    The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

    I read somewhere that among Stoker's other works, this book was second only to Dracula.
    com-pas-sion (n.) [ME. & OFr. <LL. (Ec.) compassio, sympathy < compassus, pp. of compati, to feel pity < L. com-, together + pali, to suffer] sorrow for the sufferings or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help; deep sympathy; pity

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    Sounds interesting

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    I'd like to nominate Patrick McCabe's “The Dead School
    Here's editorial review of the book from Amazon.com:
    "All it takes is one thing to go wrong and then--well everything else decides to follow suit I'm afraid. Mr Sun, who a minute before was saying, 'Hello! I'm Mr Sun! I'm your friend on this happy picnic day!' is opening up a big sunny mouth full of razor teeth." Macabre humor, grisly horrors, likeable characters, madness and pathos, shrewd allusions to pop songs and movies, and a supple prose style that sounds like Irish speech when read aloud--Patrick McCabe does it all. The Dead School is a dazzling novel, more complex and even more gripping than McCabe's The Butcher Boy. Here are the stories of two very different Irishmen, from different generations, whose lives intersect for a brief and mutually destructive time, and then continue, in misery, apart. McCabe deftly avoids the easy or dramatic ending and delivers instead the saddest, funniest, most horrible ending of all because it is so true to life.

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    Doe it just have to be a novel or can it be a play as well?
    This is going to be a though one for me....
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    "The portrait of the artist as a young man" Joyce (i want to read Ulysses eventually. I have read the Dubliners and now i would like to read this one ).
    Through the darkness of future past
    the magician longs to see
    one chance out between two worlds
    'Fire walk with me.'


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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Doe it just have to be a novel or can it be a play as well?
    This is going to be a though one for me....
    We've had plays before. Are you thinking what i'm thinking?
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    can i nominate Dubliners or is it been read before?

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    Quote Originally Posted by THX-1138 View Post
    can i nominate Dubliners or is it been read before?
    It has not been done before and you can nominate it.

    Quote Originally Posted by manolia View Post
    "The portrait of the artist as a young man" Joyce (i want to read Ulysses eventually. I have read the Dubliners and now i would like to read this one ).
    Actually Portait of the Artist was done before and we had a good discussion: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ghlight=Artist. While the rules permit it being re-read, wouldn't it be best if we tried something else?
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    Quote Originally Posted by manolia View Post
    "The portrait of the artist as a young man" Joyce (i want to read Ulysses eventually. I have read the Dubliners and now i would like to read this one ).
    Hi Manolia, We read "The portrait of the artist as a young man" in 2006. We can't read the same book in two consecutive years.



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    Would you like to nominate something else?

    Quote Originally Posted by THX-1138 View Post
    can i nominate Dubliners or is it been read before?

    You certainly can.

    The list of Book Club Reads can be found here.
    Last edited by papayahed; 01-02-2008 at 11:59 AM. Reason: neatness
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    Hi Manolia, We read "The portrait of the artist as a young man" in 2006. We can't read the same book in two consecutive years.



    Book Club Procedures


    Would you like to nominate something else?
    Correct me if I'm wrong but 2006 was two years ago and not consecutive to 2008.
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    I nominate Watt written by Samuel Beckett.
    Last edited by NickAdams; 01-02-2008 at 11:46 AM.

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    thanx virgi and papaya, then Dubliners is my nomination for March

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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    Correct me if I'm wrong but 2006 was two years ago and not consecutive to 2008.
    You're right. I should read the rules as they are not how I think they should be.

    Manolia - I take it back you can nominate The portrait of the artist as a young man.

    (We've read this twice already for book club)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Virgil View Post
    We've had plays before. Are you thinking what i'm thinking?
    Probably not! I was thinking of a play called "Observe the sons of ulster marching towards the somme" by Frank MacGuinness but if it be prefared to keep this for novels only than i would vote for At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brian

    There is after all more to Irish Literature than Joyce, Yeats, Wilde, and Shaw. (i know very cheeky of me! )
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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