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  • The Woman in White

    1 16.67%
  • Brighton Rock

    2 33.33%
  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    0 0%
  • Humbodlt's Gift

    2 33.33%
  • The End

    1 16.67%
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Thread: February '15 Reading Poll

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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    Because we have just read a Greene book, let's go with "Humboldt's Gift".

    Will set up the thread tonight.
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    Aaarghh. No kindle version for Humboldt's Gift, and my little small town library doesn't have the book.
    Extra irritating is the fact that Amazon does have a few pages that you can read in their preview, and it looks interesting.

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    I couldn't find it in either of Reading's branches of Waterstones, nor in W H Smiths. Several of Bellow's other books were in one of the Waterstones. Just ordered it from Amazon.
    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
    Charles Dickens, by George Orwell

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    I think Waterstones has a digital version available. I have ordered mine through the library. Mind you, only one copy in the whole of the county so waiting for that to arrive.
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    Waterstones doesn't sell ebooks to U.S. customers (!) I broke down and ordered an inexpensive hard copy from Amazon. I should have it this week. I justified it by telling myself that having a Pulitzer prize winning book on my shelf will make me appear more refined and intelligent.

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