Please nominate the authors you would like to read during 2007 here by September 30th.
Please do not suggest too obscure authors (their works should be available in English on amazon to be nominated).
Only one nomination per member, please.
(Please note that nominations are open only those members with 50+ posts)
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Strugatskis or Pelevin, Strugatskis or Pelevin, Strugatskis or Pelevin...?
Or perhaps even Zelazny?
hmmmh.
Strugatskis.
We nominate Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski.
If you believe even a half of this post, you are severely mistaken.
I nominate John Updike.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
I second Pensy on this oneOriginally Posted by Pensive
I've never read a book along with the book club before, but I'd love to do so by next year when I've started uni and am done with changing flats.
I hope I may ? And as well name a nomination myself (which would be Salman Rushdie) ?
Last edited by Schokokeks; 09-01-2006 at 03:22 PM.
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
Good choice, Pensy. Here's mine: Cormac McCarthy.
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Scher and Moderators:
I know monthly authors won, but since random books came in so close, if no one objects, why don't we alternate months between the two. This way we pick six authors for the year and do that every other month, and have a random selection for the other months in between. I think this way would be more interesting and satisfy more people. If no one objects, why not do this?
To the members of lit net:
Does anyone object?
Virgil
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Can I nominate more then 1 author?
If so, I nominate:
Stephen King, Shakespeare, Dashiell Hammett, Chuck Palahniuk, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Jeffrey Eugenides
If I can only nominate one, I pick Truman Capote
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I nominate Vonnegut.
In response to Virgil's post..... I like the idea
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Good idea.
My picks are Wilde and Bulgakov.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
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I think that's a good ideaThat way, half of the book we're reading wouldn't be determined in advance by narrowing the choice to one author. For those who don't want to double authors, we could include a rule that a random nomination may not be written by any author of the month.
Good point, Virgil
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
I'd like to nominate James F. Morin he wrote a book called Rothshield: Chasing Shadows. He's on amazon and I'd bet you would all be suprised at how good and different he is. He also writes from first person point of view, which is a nice change. I know I won't have much influence but I thought I'd put my 2cents in anyway.
I would like to remind that only members with 50+ posts can nominate books and the nominations are strictly one author per member.
As for having a mixture of Authors and Random nomination system: Last month we voted to determine the system favoured most by the members and the Author of the Month has been the most popular and will be the system adopted during 2007. Having a mixture of systems would make it both confusing and hard to manage, unfortunately.
Nominations so far:
Arkadi and Boriss Strugatski
John Updike
Salman Rushdie
Cormac McCarthy
Truman Capote
Kurt Vonnegut
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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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Oscar Wilde.
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
O_O oooh yes Wilde
and my nomination
Wodehouse
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I'm sorry. I didn't know that you only know if its a good book if you have over 50 posts. That's not a very good way of welcoming new members. I thought this site would be a good way to find out about good books, not being repremanded like a child by some book snob. I know I'll most likely get banned for this but I don't care. I'd rather find a site thats fun to go to than one where they ignore you unless you're a select few.
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