May Book Nominations

[Admin]

Post your nominations for the May book here.

[nothingman87]

I guess I'll go ahead and throw Androids out there again, seeing as it picked up some momentum late in the voting. My nominations are: 1) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep-Philip K. Dick 2) The Quiet American-Graham Greene 3) A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man-James Joyce 4) The Jungle-Upton Sinclair

[IWilKikU]

you realize that other members may want to nominate a book and there are only 10 slots on a poll right?

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

[Dick Diver]

Don Quixote.:D

[Kiwi Shelf]

I nominate "East of Eden", again :)
Oh, by Steinbeck

Right, and I am Canadian, so I also would suggest "The Republic of Nothing" by Lesley Choyce

[nothingman87]

I realize there are only 10 spots. Those were just some suggestions. I don't expect all of them to be put on the poll.

[verybaddmom]

has anyone out there read any Margaret Atwood? maybe the "Handmaid's Tale" or "The Edible Woman".....

[Kiwi Shelf]

"Oryx and Crake" is the only book I have ever liked by Margaret Atwood, and I don't know why that is.

[verybaddmom]

That was a great book! I actually had to pay fines on it from the library...didnt want to return it!

[EAP]

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Originally posted by verybaddmom
That was a great book! I actually had to pay fines on it from the library...didnt want to return it!

Haha, that's great!

[Raven]

"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

[emily655321]

"The Brothers Karamazov," Dostoevsky (cause I have a head start and I'm gonna finish it instead of the book club anyway if the two overlap again :D)

[IWilKikU]

Oh, read them both at once! Ya big baby!

[emily655321]

LMAO @ kik. You first, wise guy.

[IWilKikU]

LMAO?? Is that ... Looks meanly and ostentatiously? Leans more away over? ??? I'm confused :confused:

[emily655321]

*sigh* Laugh My A** Off. You can't tell me you don't know that one, boy. With all the great cow jokes you tell? :p

[writerilla]

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.

[IWilKikU]

Sorry Emily, my dirty jokes are usually spoken rather than typed. I certainly understand what it means to laugh one's *** off, but 'LMAO' looks like just a bunch of letters that don't spell anything to me. I'm really bad at accronyms :eek: 'specially internet ones.

[IWilKikU]

Ok kids. Thats it for noms this month. Now go vote!!!

[ravana]

Hie!

"Ali and Nino" by Kurban Said. It's wonderfull.

[amuse]

what is it about? by the way, there's a poll and thread up already for may posting at http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2479 - do you want to nominate that for june? and thank you for posting where you're from, i never heard of your country before. came across a link re: your country's literature. it doesn't show stuff so i had to "google." jirtdan is a cute tale - love children's lit - but am now looking for info on poets listed on the other site.

[ravana]

Sorry. Of course I don't mind for June. Thanks!!!
I'm from Azerbaijan (USSR). Azebaijan is situated in Caucasus right between Europe and Asia and one of the most ancient areas of human settlements. It was divided into two part in 1828 after Iran-Russian War. Northern Azerbaijan (the centre is Baku) could reestablished independent republic, Southern Azerbaijan (the centre- Tabriz) is still under the rein of Iran.
"Ali and Ninio" is about my country in 1918. First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Romeo and Juliet. For foriegners it's a sotory of romance. But for us just a part of our history. In spite of the author is from Azerbaijan who moved to Europe in 1920, we got an opportunity to read and publish it after collapsing USSR.

thanks for ur interest to my contry's literature. I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. The works of most of our poets aren't translated into English. On the other hand most of the translated ones aren't in electron version. But I'll do my best to help you.
http://literature.aznet.org
My favorite poet is Mikayil Mushfig who became in his 29 years old a victim of Stalin repression in 1937.

[ravana]

This link'll be enough for the introduction with "Ali and Nino" and his author.
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/aliandnino/

[amuse]

thank you so much! what a gold mine, i'm really amazed. i would be happy to try to help you if you need something, as well.
wow, a poetry duel??. not (!) :) because of that, Ali and Nino sounds beautiful.

[ravana]

I'm glad I could help you. Thanks! Then let me know what you liked most. I found another link for you - works of modern poets.

http://www.azeri.org/Azeri/az_latin/latin_lit/literature_home_index.html

http://www.azeri.org