June Reading Poll

[Scheherazade]

Please vote for the book you would like to read in June by May 31st.


Someplace to be Flying by Charles de Lint : http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...021739-1224636

Life Of Pi by Yann Martel http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

The Canterbury Tales* by Chaucer http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

The Magus by John Fowles http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556

Shogun by James Clavell http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556

The Cosmic Trilogy by C.S.Lewis http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...021739-1224636

A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556

Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556

Crime and Punishment* by Fyodor Dostoevsky http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...219962-3389556


PS: Please click on the * marked ones to reach the online-texts available on the Forum



Book Club Procedures

[Nightshade]

crime and punishment please, read it before but i really loved it.

[papayahed]

In Cold Blood seems like the best choice, if you ask me...

[Erna]

That's a hard one, there three books which I would like to read:
- The life of Pi (already started it )
- The Cantebury Tales
- Love in the time of cholera

Unfortunately, voting on three isn't possible.
On the other hand, allthough I like reading a book this way and vote for one of these three, I don't have the time in June to read or share my opinion about the book, because of being abroard for 3,5 months by then.

So I won't vote and influence the outcome, but I've given some advice in what to choose

[Jay]

Oh Erna, if you voted for Life of Pi you could finish it before June actually... means you wouldn't have to read anything in June and only joined the conversation thread and the live chat if it shall win or you shall so desire

Welcome to the forums/book club

[Erna]

Maybe I should do that. But the chance that I can follow discussions is also small, because I'm going to Suriname (South-America) and having computers at home is less normal than it is here.

I'll see what I'm going to do, time enough left to vote

Thanks for your welcome!

[Jay]

Yep, there's almost a month left to decide what to vote for or IF to vote at all

You can vote (or not), read the book (or not) and join the discussion/live chat (or not) , there's nothing you HAVE to do

*edit* Oh I forgot to meantion... you can also nominate (or not ) a book... if you can get into the first ten nominations or if someone cancels theirs nomination you could get your book into the voting still

[Scheherazade]

This month I won't mind whichever book wins the poll... They are all good books I hope to read sometime soon.

[Jay]

This month I may not be able to read ANY book at all ... let alone the next month... but I still need something to read on the train so I MIGHT get to read something

[Scheherazade]

This month I won't mind whichever book wins the poll... They are all good books I hope to read sometime soon.

I am still glad that the leading book is leading

[Jay]

It's still too early to be all cheery

[Miss Darcy]

Though I never seem to keep up with you guys...never seem to really read what is meant to be read or end up reading it like a month afterwards...I do enjoy influencing the poll.

I voted Crime and Punishment. True, I don't have it, and I don't generally like reading books online (for reference, sometimes...that's why I find the Online Literature Network so useful...especially the forums! )................but all the same......I do happen to have The Idiot, would that do?

[Scheherazade]

Another tie, I see!

*rubs hands excitedly*

Another coin toss for me?? If it is a 2+ way tie, I will be rolling the dice!



Reading Shogun might be interesting as well... I think in the beginning of 1980s, there was a TV show starring Richard Chamberlain. I remember my mother and her friends watching it addictively, reading the book and discussing it forever.

[papayahed]

Another tie, I see!

*rubs hands excitedly*

Another coin toss for me?? If it is a 2+ way tie, I will be rolling the dice!



Reading Shogun might be interesting as well... I think in the beginning of 1980s, there was a TV show starring Richard Chamberlain. I remember my mother and her friends watching it addictively, reading the book and discussing it forever.

Not so fast...... I've learned my lesson and I'm waiting until the last day to cast my vote!!!!

[Scheherazade]

Though I never seem to keep up with you guys...never seem to really read what is meant to be read or end up reading it like a month afterwards...I do enjoy influencing the poll.

Come and post whenever you read them, Miss D. The threads are open indefinetely


Papaya, you know you will give in and vote soon!

And wow! I didn't know that Shogun is 1210 pages. If it wins, we will read it in two months, I guess...