The Black Monk – Chekhov
Berenice – Poe
The Depressed Person – David Foster Wallace
The Gentle Boy - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher – Poe
The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen
The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs – Ray Bradbury
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge – Ambrose Bierce
The Black Monk – Chekhov
Berenice – Poe
The Depressed Person – David Foster Wallace
The Gentle Boy - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Fall of the House of Usher – Poe
The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen
The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs – Ray Bradbury
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge – Ambrose Bierce
Can i vote for the one i suggested?
(edit: it seems it is common practice, so i did)
Last edited by Kyriakos; 09-15-2010 at 12:22 PM.
mmmmm... I don't know which to vote: the one by Bradbury I nominated or the one by David Foster Wallace. I hope they both win hehe...
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Only about a week to go on voting... looks like Poe is in the lead but there is a 3-way tie between Checkov, Machen, and Bradbury that someone will need to break
This forum is great. Honestly, I pretty much work all day and rarely have time to discuss books or about anything academic...Lol. So you guys make a poll about which book to read for the next month and discuss it as soon as you finish reading it? I'm new, so a few tips would be welcomed
Went for Berenice as i probably already have it in my collected works of Poe, but have yet to read it unlike TFOTHOU.
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T for Tea.
Yea that's pretty much how it works, we do two short stories a month, currently we are reading Araby if you want to get in on that before the months out. There is also another forum dedicated to book of the month club, where one book is read each month and discussed.... it looks like for October the book will be Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthyOriginally Posted by FROADS
I haven't read anything by Poe yet so it would be awesome to give him a chance
It'd be nice if the short story threads were temporarily stickied to make them easy to find.
I second that motion. And third it too (i'm a big fella).
T for Tea.
Looks like it's a 2 horse race with 2 days to go.
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Give a nod to Chekhov
My nod's for Poe
Yeah, Poe's great..but I personally think The Fall House of Usher is a highly regarded work that most people have, at some point, read...It's well known, that's my point. Chekhov, on the other hand, is considered to be one of Russia's greatest short story writers. Yet his works have remained obscure to contemporary America, I don't know maybe I'm generalizing..I probably am, lol, Let's give Chekhov a chance though since I haven't read that story and am currently searching for it online.
Poe takes the lead
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