View Poll Results: Please vote for the French book you would like to read in May by May 1st!

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  • Papillon

    8 18.60%
  • The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

    4 9.30%
  • Ninety Three

    2 4.65%
  • Madame Bovary

    7 16.28%
  • Candide

    10 23.26%
  • The Red and the Black

    5 11.63%
  • A Woman's Life

    1 2.33%
  • Gargantua and Pantagruel

    2 4.65%
  • The Lover

    0 0%
  • Wall

    4 9.30%
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    Good choices! (Ya'll are both old enough right?)

    Janine? Scher? Niamh?
    papayahed, you kiddin'...lets see now, if 21 is the legal drinking age, I would be legal nearly 3 times over...not quite, but close! eeeekkkkk

    I do need a drink after admitting that one! I will take a sip of each - they all look delectable! Thanks....
    Last edited by Janine; 04-21-2008 at 12:03 AM.
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    I wouldnt mind a Mojito or a WooWoo if you got one!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drkshadow03 View Post
    You know, I kind of feel bad for The Lover. It's the only books on the whole list that hasn't gotten a single vote.
    Quote Originally Posted by Antiquarian View Post
    I kind of feel bad for it, too. Even the person who nominated it hasn't voted for it. I haven't read the book, but I saw the movie and it was pretty good.
    I nominated it. I haven't seen the movie but the book was excellent. I highly recommend it. I wound up voting for The Red and the Black since I've been meaning to read that for the longest time and thought this would be a good opportunity.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Hi Mickitaz. Only members who have 50+ posts are able to vote in the polls. However, like Janine said, it is easy to increase one's post count easily; visit our Games section!
    Thanks Janine and Scheherazade. I have been posting sporadically between here and the fantasy forums.. seeing as the fantasy books are my first passion in books. I will take a look around and see if I can build up posts.

    I know that the pole closes May 1, so I have some time. I appreciate the warm welcome. Thank you again!

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    I will go for Rableis or Stendhal; but not yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Antiquarian View Post
    Welcome to a great literature forum. If you play some of the games, your post count will go up quickly.

    I can testify to that!

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    Thanks, guys.. I have been taking your advice and I am slowly getting there... My husband is wondering what I am doing... cooking dinner.. then running over to the computer to post a reply. But then, he already knows that I am just not right in the head

    I am getting to meet some really interesting people here. I am glad that people here are so open and friendly. Since I seem "lost" in the way of which way to go for reading material.. I decided for May I would simply start with the winner of the pole, and work my way down the list.

    I am lucky enough to live four blocks from my public library... and with the wonderful weather we have been having.. I can just walk down to pick up new books.

    Thanks again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mickitaz View Post
    and with the wonderful weather we have been having.. I can just walk down to pick up new books.
    Not living in the UK, are ya?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Not living in the UK, are ya?



    User Pseudōnumos has been banned from the site so his vote will not be taken into consideration at the end of poll.
    you not having nice weather across the sea Scher? Suns shining in Ireland.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Sun??? That is a mere urban myth here... Noone has seen it or noone has seen anyone who has seen it...
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    Sunny here too in New Jersey, that is a rarity as well....and I think it is about 80 here too. We seem to be having a very nice drier spring this year. Lots of pretty flowering trees out now and some gorgeous tulips in my yard and my neighbor's.
    Sometimes it does rain all the time in South Jersey, and you wonder where the sun ran off to. So sorry Scher, that Mr. Sun has not visited you lately. It sure can get depressing seeing rain and mist and fog all the time...although I like fog but it is dangerous to travel in and so dampish.
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Sun??? That is a mere urban myth here... Noone has seen it or noone has seen anyone who has seen it...
    Well hopefully it will be sunny in the UK at the weekend because i'll be there!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer


    my poems-please comment Forum Rules

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    Well hopefully it will be sunny in the UK at the weekend because i'll be there!
    Hi Niamh, for you sake and Scher's I sure hope it is. Enjoy your stay and think 'sun!"
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

    Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    It's going to be warm apparently but I don't know about sunny, that might be pushing it

    Well I just finished Candide so I guess I have a head start if it's the winner, one thing I always hate about foreign books is that I'm hopeless at pronouncing the names.

    Candide for example, I imagine (probably incorrectly) is pronounced can-DEED but how on earth do you pronounce Cunegund?

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