I'm halfway through And Another Thing at the moment. I am pretty sure I'll be finished by January, but anything can happen when it's me reading a book. Anyhow, it might be very uncool to take part if I've actually just finished it, right? In the event it was chosen...
Regarding the other choices, Philip K. Dick is one I might be able to finish along with other readers (ie.keep up with them), but I'm going to be very cautious and just not vote.
What I said before!Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Not many people are planning to read a book in January?
C'mon folks... There is life after Christmas...
Hey, just discovered that quoting oneself is such a delight!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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"the last september" has no chance. so I used my vote for "one of ours"
Going once...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I thought for sure I bought that book; I will have to go hunting it. It was before Christmas...it's here somewhere.....amongst the book stacks.....*searching furiously*.....
Yes, hopefully life does go on after Christmas! Good quote Scher!
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I reeaaallly would like to read One of Ours so please keep voting, peeps!
Janine> It ain't over yet!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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This forum is suspiciously devoid of De Lillo fans.
I'm trying to read more SF so I'm going with Androids.
'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.' - Groucho Marx
Yeah, I know; it was just hopeful thinking on my part....I reeaaallly would like to read One of Ours so please keep voting, peeps!
Janine> It ain't over yet!
vote people, vote....
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Going twice...
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Who is the author of "Humboldt's Gift"? I am afraid I never heard of the novel before. What's the novel about?
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saul Bellow. I read two other books by him but not this one so haven't got a clue.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I have spent so much money on books since I purchased the kindle that my prided frugality has now taken on the tincture of a constructed myth, but I was going to buy Dick's cult classic yesterday, and now I have a flimsy justification.Instant gratification does not really ease psychic pain, but I tell myself I am stocking my fortress.
As to Dick, I haven't read all his stuff, and I should not like him, given my taste for complex realism and *high* modernism, and I do not know all his novels, but there is just something about his work that resists being dated, or tucked into genre, and I do like those of his stories I know. I read up @ Amazon on the controversy between Blade Runner and the original text, and think I have room for both variations. I just need to check a couple of things, and then, whoosh!
if Androids wins count me in
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What the heck, I'm in for Androids too. Sounds like a fast and interesting read, and something different from what i normally would read. Ok, I'm in.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
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Well, I wooshed this morning, had pop tarts, went to the bank, did my shopping, fed kitties, and have to put a pad lock on my Amazon account at this point. I was supposed to have my book splurge last year. I will not start reading until after midnight--and not to worry. I wanted the title, just clarifying in case of a last minute surge or what.
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