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View Poll Results: Which book shall we read for February's discussion? | |||
Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan | 13 | 20.63% | |
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | 14 | 22.22% | |
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy | 5 | 7.94% | |
The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick | 8 | 12.70% | |
Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold | 10 | 15.87% | |
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon | 14 | 22.22% | |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | 10 | 15.87% | |
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute | 24 | 38.10% | |
Love Story by Erich Segal | 11 | 17.46% | |
Stardust by Neil Gaiman | 22 | 34.92% | |
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01-28-2013, 10:41 AM | #121 |
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I don't think the rule is needed. Nominations and category selections should keep most books out of repeated nominations. I thought it was the nomination and voting process itself that was supposed to monitor appropriateness of titles for a given category within the bounds of what the category nominator defines.
If I went to the library and went to the romance section at least four of the nominated books wouldn't have been on the shelf there. Genres are open to interpretation and I like the fact that we nominate oddities and get a lot of opinions. Is it always going to work? No, but the process that is there for nominating and voting should get us to at least a partial-majority wanting to read a book, independent of what we choose to label it as. |
01-28-2013, 11:16 AM | #122 |
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I think the point of the rule is that seeing the same book nominated again and again and again turns off many members, and it only takes three members to do it. Nominating a book month after month despite the category hoping it'll finally get lucky is sort of a perversion of the process. The rule also encourages people to nominate a book in a month it fits well since it only gets one shot every six months.
But by all means, let's be able to nominate Lolita every month. |
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Lolita doesn't fit into any category we have. Unless I missed something and we have perverted books as a category. |
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01-28-2013, 12:10 PM | #125 |
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Classical Literature, published at least 25 years ago Classics (it's certainly been influential and survives as a work of important literature) Free-for-all Lottery Suspense/Thriller (or whatever genre Silence of the Lambs belongs in) Non-genre literary (no idea how that works) I don't think it's won any specific awards, but it's been included on several "100 most important books" lists. We could, hypothetically, have a "perverted books" category. Lolita, the works of V.C. Andrews, Twisted Fairy Tales, some of Heinlein's more incest-condoning novels, the Gor series... Hm. I bet we'd have a lot of fun discussing a "perverted books" category even if we didn't want to use them for the book club. Or maybe it could be a good category. After all, the plan isn't "read every book nominated or discussed;" it's "read one book"--and I bet we could have a great discussion about what makes one of those books a "perverted" book. |
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01-28-2013, 05:27 PM | #131 |
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I think it's a good idea. I've already thought it would be a good idea to have a banned book category. That would include books from The Grapes of Wrath to The Jungle to Lolita and many other great books.
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01-28-2013, 05:33 PM | #132 |
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I think if we do a banned book month it should be in September to coincide with Banned Books Week.
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01-28-2013, 05:34 PM | #134 |
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01-28-2013, 06:06 PM | #135 |
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Didn't someone post about The Dresden Files qualifying as biography because it was about Harry Dresden? Using that logic, Lolita qualifies as autobiography/memoir by Humbert Humbert.
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