In Search of April Raintree
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
C - Tom McCarthy
The Shining
Please nominate the novel you would like to read in October in this thread by August 31st.
Please remember that:
- Only those members with 50+ posts can nominate.
- One nomination per member.
- Only the first 10 nominations will be included in the poll.
The Book Club readings are for those who would like to read and discuss books together with other members.
If you are not able to take part or unwilling to (re)read your own nominations, please refrain from taking part in the process.
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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'd like to nominate In Search of April Raintree
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
I love this book and I hope to read it again here:
Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
from Publishers Weekly
In 1854, when the U.S. Navy's Commodore Perry sailed into Edo (now Tokyo) with the grand goal of opening Japan to trade, he brought major change and minor entertainment—a black-face minstrel show that amazed and perplexed its audience. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Wiley, shifting perspectives with deft ease, follows two fictional white minstrels, Ace Bledsoe and Ned Clark, as they confront Japanese society, while he subversively engages the reader in a deeply allegorical reading of cultural exchange. Ace and Ned come under the wing of interpreter Manjiro Okubo, whose powerful family is locked in an old clan rivalry. The rivals' plot to kidnap musicians sets off a train of events romantic and tragic, with touches of Keystone Kops: with tantalizing authorial discretion, lovers enjoy one another, villains flash lethal swords, beauty balances bawdy, and rivalries and enmities explode. (Readers need not have read Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award–winning Soldiers in Hiding, for which this novel is a way-back prequel.) This absorbing and immensely pleasurable book achieves momentum through Wiley's fluid style, the lightness with which he bears his learning, and the vitality and wit with which he brings a vanished world to life.
Revolutionary Road- Richard Yates
I would like to nominate Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Nominations so far:
1. In Search of April Raintree
2. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
3. Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
4. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
And I would like to nominate Empire Falls by Richard Russo.
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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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Yay! I am glad that I did not miss the oppertunity to nomminate something and there is still space open.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
I think The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck deserves a read.
Nominations so far:
1. In Search of April Raintree
2. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
3. Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
4. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
6. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
7. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
8. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
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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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C - Tom McCarthy
"C" follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect. What follows is a stunning tour de force in which the eerily idyllic settings of pre-war Europe give way to the exhilarating flight-paths of the frontline aeroplane radio operator, then the prison camps of Germany, the drug-fuelled London of the roaring twenties and, finally, the ancient tombs of Egypt. Reminiscent of Bolano, Beckett and Pynchon, this is a remarkable novel - a compelling, sophisticated and sublimely imaginative book uncovering the hidden codes and dark rhythms that sustain life.
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Nominations so far:
1. In Search of April Raintree
2. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
3. Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
4. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
6. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
7. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
8. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
9. C - Tom McCarthy
Last nomination up for grabs!
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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 Shining.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I've been meaning to read Blood Meridian for a while now, but I couldn't live with myself if I didn't support my own nomination.
Nominations for September:
1. In Search of April Raintree
2. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
3. Commodore's Perry Minstrel Show by Richard Wiley
4. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner.
5. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
6. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
7. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
8. The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
9. C - Tom McCarthy
10. The Shining.
There are 3-4 books in the list that I won't mind reading.
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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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