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  • Dragon's Teeth

    1 14.29%
  • We are All Completely Beside Ourselves

    2 28.57%
  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    1 14.29%
  • Tropic of Cancer

    3 42.86%
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Thread: March '15 Reading Poll

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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    March '15 Reading Poll

    Please nominate the books you would like to read in March here.

    The poll will open on February 15th.
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    I will nominate Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair.
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    We are all completely beside ourselves by Karen Jay Fowler
    What are regrets? Just lessons we haven't learned yet - Beth Orton

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    J.M. Coetzee - Waiting for the Barbarians
    But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
    You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
    ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.

    _Pablo Neruda

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    Nominations so far:

    1. Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair

    2. We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Jay Fowler

    3. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee


    I will not mind reading any of these.
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    ive been trying, unsuccessfully for a while to get friends to read books with me and so maybe I can join in here!

    ive got a number of books ive not read yet from the time magazine 101 novels of the decade. maybe you all would like to give one of those a shot?

    an American tragedy, beloved, a clockwork orange, deliverance, gone with the wind, the heart is a lonely hunter or tropic of cancer?

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    or how about any of these from the litnet list that I found here on the forums?

    8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
    9. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
    11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
    23. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    28. Emma by Jane Austen
    30. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    34. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    44. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    48. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    52. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
    57. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    62. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    63. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    67. Vanity Fair by William Thackerey
    78. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
    82. Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne
    84. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

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    Thosr are great suggestions. Could you please pick one and nominate?
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    oh heck! smiles...I was thinking it could be sort of a round robin type of thing where everyone who read the list could continue to refine it, and then refine it, and then refine it, until we all got down to the last one or two books we've all not read. I fear if I pick one---it might be that everyone else but me had read it! ack!

    how about, the heart is a lonely hunter.

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    Love that book. Will set up the poll tomorrow so last couple of hours for your nominations!
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    if you've already read it Scheherazade, maybe you can also include tropic of cancer? (if you've not read it that is)

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    in my naivete ive been waiting for a sort of formal declaration/communication/start time etc...

    im guessing we all should have been/could have been reading tropic of cancer since a couple of weeks ago?

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