Book Club Proposal - 2008

[Alexei]

There is only a week more left. For now Country is ahead, but I wonder whether there will be changes.

[applepie]

Come on everyone. Random sounds like a good way to go, and we're almost out of time to vote.

[Dori]

I put my vote in yesterday for Country of the Month. It seems the most logical choice, to tell the truth.

[grace86]

AAARRRGGGH someone quick help me rig the votes!

[Alexei]

There are only four days left, I think that this year will be country of the month, though there is still chance for something else.

[Scheherazade]

Going once...

[Niamh]

vote country

[Virgil]

I think people will regret this. It may not be easy to get a hold of novels from some countries. And i bet most will never have heard of some of the writers, which may make people lose interest. Just my thoughts.

[plainjane]

I think people will regret this. It may not be easy to get a hold of novels from some countries. And i bet most will never have heard of some of the writers, which may make people lose interest. Just my thoughts.

Absolutely agreed.
For me at any rate.
Although I know some that are doing the Olympic Challenge and find it fascinating. Not my cuppa though.

[Nossa]

^^You can't possibly know each and every writer in the entire world. And I believe that the suggesttions that will be made, will be from people who thought that the novel is worth reading. You don't have to know the name of the novel/author in order to read a book, you just need a good recommecndation and googling its name to see if it interests you. That's what I think at least.

[papayahed]

I'm hoping for anything besides authors. If it can't be random or genre - countries is great. It's always the same stuffy authors, this time we'll be forced to try new authors, or at least new to some of us..

[Alexei]

I think people will regret this. It may not be easy to get a hold of novels from some countries.

Totally agreed! Sometimes it's very hard for to find some books that are by English/American authors and they usually are quite famous works, I can't imagine what will be trying to find some written in Holland for instance (I pick this example, because last year I have tried to find such novel and it was a total failure, I have th feeling that there are a lot novels that aren't available here). And the main problem is that I can't use internet orders *sigh*

[Virgil]

Totally agreed! Sometimes it's very hard for to find some books that are by English/American authors and they usually are quite famous works, I can't imagine what will be trying to find some written in Holland for instance (I pick this example, because last year I have tried to find such novel and it was a total failure, I have th feeling that there are a lot novels that aren't available here). And the main problem is that I can't use internet orders *sigh*

And not only that, we will need to find a translation in many cases.

[NickAdams]

We will just pick authors that were poplar enough to be translated.

I didn't recognize you Virgil.

[Scheherazade]

To those who are "worried" about the "country" option> It is mentioned in the OP that if we decide to go with this option, we will only nominate/pick works that are available on amazon in English.