View Poll Results: Please vote for the historical novel you would like to read in June by May 31st.

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  • The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston

    1 3.33%
  • Julian Gore Vidal

    2 6.67%
  • Katherine by Anya Seton

    1 3.33%
  • The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

    0 0%
  • The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

    6 20.00%
  • Ivanhoe

    8 26.67%
  • Waverly

    0 0%
  • The Boy in the striped Pyjamas

    2 6.67%
  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

    1 3.33%
  • Rob Roy

    9 30.00%
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    awww I thought it was robinhoody *Sigh* ah well .
    there is plenty of action too
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    good good, else i will be forced to read Foul play by Charles Reade . !
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    C'mon Ivanhoe! You can take the Scottish upstart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    C'mon Ivanhoe! You can take the Scottish upstart.
    I do belive they were both written by the same Scottish person?
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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    C'mon Ivanhoe! You can take the Scottish upstart.
    haha..."Ivanhoe" had a sudden resurgance of interest. I read that book way back when and loved it. I was sure "Rob Roy" would win, but I have never heard a thing about the novel.

    Yes, Nightshade, they were both written by Sir Walter Scott! ...good observation.

    I just got done watching the film version of "Ivanhoe" starring Anthony Andrews and Sam Neil, Olivia Hussey. I loved it, of course! Handsome knights, jousting, chivilry, beautiful ladies and two cute leading men, also the appearance of Robin Hood and his merry men to aid the king....miniseries was a little dated, but still a good film and a lot of fun.
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    ahhh...need more votes for Ivanhoe.....there is still time......
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

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    come on Rob Roy! I'm content now to read it... or listen to it as an audio seeing as reading is an issue.
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    Oh man, my library only had Ivanhoe! Can I change my vote?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Page Turner View Post
    Oh man, my library only had Ivanhoe! Can I change my vote?
    unfortunately you vote isnt valid because you have less than 50 posts. (get thee to the games forum! )
    "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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    Yes, Page Turner, as Niamh so wisely advised, "Get thee to the games forum!"
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

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

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    Comeone just one more vote for Rob Roy!!!!!


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    Knowing 'Rob Roy' was winning, I've started reading. As a 15-year-old I had won 'Old Mortality', published a year before 'Rob Roy', as a school prize but found the writing incomprehensible. Now, decades later, I am wondering whether Sir Walter Scott is more accessible. After half a dozen pages the answer was unquestionably, 'No'.

    But soldiering on, readability is improving. So, with 'Julian' lost, I cast my vote.

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    I am going to sit this one out; maybe when I can catch up on my life I can do something in fall or winter. I simply have never been very good with cyber reading schedules, though this is a frustrating personal hang up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jozanny View Post
    I am going to sit this one out; maybe when I can catch up on my life I can do something in fall or winter. I simply have never been very good with cyber reading schedules, though this is a frustrating personal hang up.
    Hehe, I am no good at reading anything I am supposed to . I can really really want to read a book, the minute I am told I need to my heels begin to drag and the month is over and Im like, now wy did I do that ?
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