October/Dickens Reading Poll

[Scheherazade]

I'm sorry...but I have a newbie-kinda-question..lol
I'm new here and obviously the poll is closed...
Is the book chosen is the one with most votes?! Hrd times?!

I see Nossa has the same problem as me! Cannot vote.
Nossa this is my first day on the forum as well (not the website though).

Hi Nossa and Bita,

Welcome to the Forum!

In order to be able to vote/nominate in the Book Club, members need to have at least 50 posts (not too many if you start visiting the General Chat and Games sections, believe you me! ). If you get your posts counts up before the end of the month, you can vote for the Dickens book you would like to read as well (and nominate an author for the next year!): http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=18930

You can find more about the Book Club procedures and rules here.

If you have any further inquiries, please do not hesitate to PM me.

[Schokokeks]

If the three-way tie stays like that, let's read them all ! (weather's usually bad in October anyway ! )

[Scheherazade]

If the three-way tie stays like that, let's read them all ! (weather's usually bad in October anyway ! )

We will be having a Halloween reading towards the October as well so save some time for that too!

Saw David today while at the library and borrowed it just in case and was surprised to discover that it is a very long book (mine is 870 pages). Wonder how I managed it so many times as a kid. Of course I read only the translation in those days so they might have done some 'editing'.

[Schokokeks]

We will be having a Halloween reading towards the October as well so save some time for that too!

Saw David today while at the library and borrowed it just in case and was surprised to discover that it is a very long book (mine is 870 pages).

Oh cool, a Halloween reading ! With candles and mass-cuddling against being scared and all ?
My copy of David Copperfield has 1238 pages Must be the large print...Isn't there a page restriction for Book Club nominations ? But then, inveterate bibliophils don't really need to sleep between reading, do they ?

[aeroport]

The people have spoken, and the people have said "David Copperfield"! I say we simply close the poll now and get on with it. Clearly Copperfield wins out. Whuddya say, Scher?

[bazarov]

Maybe somebody will vote for The Great Expectations...

[Scheherazade]

The people have spoken, and the people have said "David Copperfield"! I say we simply close the poll now and get on with it. Clearly Copperfield wins out. Whuddya say, Scher?

Good try, Jamesian but I think we will have to wait until September 30th when the poll closes!

Maybe somebody will vote for The Great Expectations...

Please, please don't! Expectations is one book in that list I cannot bring myself to read again! Everytime I read I feel like hitting Pip on the head with the very book he is the hero of!

[kilted exile]

Hmmm, this fits in with my effort to read everything by Dickens this year. I just finished Bleak House (finally) a couple of weeks ago, it is good but took me a while to get into because of the 2 narrators.
Next up on my list is Pickwick Papers.

I think I once saw a movie (starring Ethan Hawke) that intrigued me and was called Great Expectations and I'd like to compare with the book

I had the misfortune to see that version as well, complete and utter tosh, led me to wonder if they had even bothered to read the book.

Hard Times is just not funny.

What? how can anyone not find Hard Times funny. It is Dickens at his satirical best.

[aeroport]

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I had the misfortune to see that version as well, complete and utter tosh, led me to wonder if they had even bothered to read the book.
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I had wondered if that had anything to do with the novel. The cover of the thing alone does not exactly bring Dickens to mind...

[bazarov]

How can I know who voted for what?

[Nightshade]

We will be having a Halloween reading towards the October as well so save some time for that too!

Saw David today while at the library and borrowed it just in case and was surprised to discover that it is a very long book (mine is 870 pages). Wonder how I managed it so many times as a kid. Of course I read only the translation in those days so they might have done some 'editing'.

870? really so what did I read then? Im sure my copy wasnt more than 250 pages long but I read it like a dozen times when I was younger .

[Schokokeks]

I had the misfortune to see that version as well, complete and utter tosh, led me to wonder if they had even bothered to read the book.

Hm, I had (and still have) no clear idea what the book was about when I saw the movie, and I didn't expect it to be a close adaption of the book, as I don't expect Pip to become a painter of modern art in a Dickens book But nevertheless, I'd like to compare where there are ideas or motives transformed, where the characters resemble, etc.
But if, as you say, kilted, there are not many detectable links whatsoever, it's no use re-watching the movie and comparing.
But I'd like to read the book anyway

[Schokokeks]

How can I know who voted for what?

Just you click on the nummer of voters after any nomination . They are links that open a new version of the poll where you can see the names of the voters after each nomination.

[bazarov]

It works, thank you.

[Scheherazade]

Hmmm, this fits in with my effort to read everything by Dickens this year. I just finished Bleak House (finally) a couple of weeks ago, it is good but took me a while to get into because of the 2 narrators.
Next up on my list is Pickwick Papers.

Don't forget to vote in the poll!