View Poll Results: Please vote for the South African book you would like to read in January!

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  • Cry, Beloved Country

    3 17.65%
  • Slow Man

    3 17.65%
  • The Conservationist

    0 0%
  • Coconut

    3 17.65%
  • The Power of One

    2 11.76%
  • Disgrace

    1 5.88%
  • My Son's Story

    1 5.88%
  • Martha Quest

    2 11.76%
  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    2 11.76%
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Thread: January / South African Reading Poll

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    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
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    A three-way tie? My favorite!
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    Still a long way to go though!

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    I'm not sure if I'll be able to catch up..I have exams till Jan. 14th!
    But I'll just nominate Disgrace...it seems like a good read.
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    With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.

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    JM Coetzee has a new book out and it appears to have many metaphysical ramifications:

    http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts...155838,00.html


    ''Diary of a Bad Year'' does appear to have a great many merits.

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    Now that would be telling it, wouldnt it?
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    Oh come on... a 3 way split? Thats means I cant go looking foir the book till january ...grumble
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    I've heard great things about The Power of One as well. Should be good.

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    Going once...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Going once...
    What happens if we don't get more votes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastmelon View Post
    What happens if we don't get more votes?
    That's when the trusty coin comes out.
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    Going twice...
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    Sold.

    Slow Man by Coetzee
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Nominations so far:
    8. Martha Quest by Doris Lessing
    I was just thinking, how come she could get nominated for South Africa? Daughter of a man and woman from Britain, born in Persia, moved to southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and later moved to England.

    Was she nominated just because she was campaigning against nuclear arms and South African apartheid? Cause, she's not really South African.

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    It was obviously in error but the voting is well over now and Slow Man was selected so....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    It was obviously in error but the voting is well over now and Slow Man was selected so....
    Yes, I know that. It was just something that I thought about before, because I am to read a book by Lessing now myself and wanted to look her up before I read. And so I got confused. That's all.

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