We have already got our 10 nominations, I am afraid.Originally Posted by Nightshade
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker*
The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde*
Dubliners by James Joyce*
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Master by Colm Tóibín
Father’s Music by Dermot Bolger
The Tain as translated by Cairan Carson
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
We have already got our 10 nominations, I am afraid.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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And I'm guessing the voting will start sometime tomorrow, or the day after?
Mods, is it possible to change my nomination? I nominated "The Playboy of the Western World". I've changed my mind. I would like to nominate The Master, novel by Colm Tóibín. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_%28novel%29. I've been wanting to read a contemporary Irish novel, and I've heard good things about Tóibín, although I have to admit I've never read anything by him before.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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On February 1st.Okaley dokaley!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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You can now vote for the book you would like to read in March.
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
The poll will be closed on March 1st.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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So which one is good?
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Most of them are good.but if you want to see where our legends come from, vote for the Tain. Like I said before, this story is Irelands Epic, and if you like legends and myths or stories like Beowolf, The Iliad and Arturian Legends, this is a must.
"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)"
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I voted for The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker (my nomination). I had to break the 6-way tie.
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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I abandoned my nomination (Dermot Bolger) and voted for Dubliners by James Joyce instead.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any one book among them which I think I might find over here except for 'the Dubliners' which I am reading currently anyway. So I'll just wait and see. Or give someone a vote if they really want it, lol
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ~ Thomas Gray
Why where abouts are you hira?
"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
Pakistan, can ask my uncle to parcel it though
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
From Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ~ Thomas Gray
You can join in the discussion when ever you recieve what ever book is chosen. You have to join in the in march technically, especially if you cant get your hands on the book imidiately.
"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
Vote for The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker!Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any one book among them which I think I might find over here except for 'the Dubliners' which I am reading currently anyway. So I'll just wait and see. Or give someone a vote if they really want it, lol
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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i unofficially cast my vote for Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars
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