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A Night to Remember by Walter Lord | 11 | 42.31% | |
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna | 15 | 57.69% | |
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06-27-2013, 07:09 PM | #1 |
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July 2013 Special Run-Off Vote
July 2013 Mobile Read Book Club Special Run-Off Vote
Since this month's vote resulted in a tie, we are having a Special Run-Off Vote between the two leading candidates. I will not vote in this poll unless my vote is needed to break a tie. This poll will be open for 3 days, and all MobileRead members are invited to participate. This is a visible poll. It is NOT multiple choice. We will start the discussion thread for this book on July 20th. Select from the following Two Choices: • A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Amazon UK Spoiler:
• Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
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06-27-2013, 07:42 PM | #2 |
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Go, Fanny and Stella!
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06-27-2013, 07:50 PM | #3 |
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This is not good. Here we have two old and moldy books to choose from. Neither are interesting, modern, fun, enriching or educational. Sorry, but this month had a chance to be good, but soon went into the toilet fast.
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06-27-2013, 08:03 PM | #4 |
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Uh, Fanny and Stella was published this year. And while the setting is Victorian, I think the subject matter sounds to be both fun and tragic in its own way as well as highly relevant to issues today. It would make for a great discussion.
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06-27-2013, 08:20 PM | #5 |
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What happened to Gulp? I already started reading it. It's brilliant.
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06-27-2013, 09:57 PM | #6 |
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It didn't get enough votes.
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06-27-2013, 10:34 PM | #7 |
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Yes it was published this year, but the subject matter is old and stale.
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06-27-2013, 10:36 PM | #8 | |
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The problem is that people just didn't listen and didn't vote for the best book in the list. They decide old, stale, moldy subjects were preferred. They didn't want something fun, fresh, modern and enjoyable. |
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06-27-2013, 10:40 PM | #9 |
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06-27-2013, 10:51 PM | #10 |
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The setting is Victorian. That's the problem. It should have been set now. But because of the Victorian bit, that's what ruins it.
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06-27-2013, 11:22 PM | #11 |
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If it was set now, I don't think there would be much of a drama about it! Society has, thank goodness, progressed a bit since then.
But it's very important for us not to lose sight of how things were, or the bigots will try to push society back to the same or similar laws against people who are different from the norm, ie what they (the bigots) think is right. |
06-28-2013, 01:00 AM | #12 |
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For what it's worth, Jon, at the moment I'm reading a biographical graphic novel on my iPad about a man whose life began in the Victorian era on October 12, 1875 and ended on December 1, 1947 and it's very interesting. Like Fanny and Stella, this gentleman shocked England; him with his drugs, his occult claims that he was put on Earth to proclaim that the only law is "Do what thou with", and his wild sexual escapades that involved both men and women. He was denounced by the popular media of his day as "the wickedest man in the world". You should check it out before declaring any book about an earlier era than our own being by definition old, stale, and musty.
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06-28-2013, 01:02 AM | #13 |
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So there are two books left now, a book about an accident that caused the death of thousands and a book about victorian cross-dressing.
Oh well.. On the other hand, maybe this fun, fresh, modern and enjoyable stuff is not suitable for everybody here. We can't force people to read good books, can we? |
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Vote for "A Night to Remember". You know it makes sense!
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06-28-2013, 01:09 AM | #15 | |
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