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08-24-2011, 08:35 AM | #16 | |
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I'll nominate Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
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08-24-2011, 08:42 AM | #17 |
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For my last nomination, I'm suggesting Christ Stopped at Eboli. Carlo Levi was a doctor subjected to banishment for anti-fascism in the mid 1930s. This is his powerful account of his time in exile in a primitive area in southern Italy.
The Italians in the club have no doubt read this, but perhaps they can weigh in. |
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Christ stopped at Eboli is a great book, which I read eons ago, so glad to second it. Now I've got to think carefully about my third nomination... |
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Vandy has been keeping a nice tally of nominations in prior months; I'm not sure where s/he is now (perhaps on August vacation?). I will tally when I can but if anyone else wants to help out if it's been awhile since the last tally, then that would be great.
Here's a tally of the nominations so far: People Of The Abyss by Jack London - 5 In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - 1 Insurgent Mexico by John Reed - 4 Letters by Heloise & Pierre Abelard/Historia Calamitatum by Pierre Abelard - 2 Garden Of The Beasts by Erik Larson - 1 Unbroken: A World War II Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - 1 Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi - 2 Please let me know of any corrections/mistakes. Last edited by sun surfer; 08-24-2011 at 01:34 PM. Reason: fixed carlo levi |
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September Nomination Results
Hey, All.
Vandy is still here and kicking. HE has written up the nomination choices and will be keeping it up to date. *** NOMINATION RESULTS FOR THE SEPTEMBER BOOK CHOICE *** Choices are shown in Vote order first then alphabetically. NOTE: Nomination will continue until 27 AUGUST or when five books receives five votes each. Nominations . . . . . Book Title / Author( (5) . . . . . . . . . . . Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi (5) . . . . . . . . . . . Insurgent Mexico by John Reed (5) . . . . . . . . . . . People of the Abyss by Jack London (5) . . . . . . . . . . . Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survial by Laura Hilenbrand (3) . . . . . . . . . . . Letters by Heloise and Pierre Abelard and Historia Calamitatum by Pierre Abelard (2) . . . . . . . . . . . Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward Said (2) . . . . . . . . . . . In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1) . . . . . . . . . . . Bardo Thopal, aka The Tibetan Book of the Dead edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1) . . . . . . . . . . . The Garden of the Beast by Erik Larson (1) . . . . . . . . . . . The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates Last edited by Vandy; 08-26-2011 at 08:39 PM. Reason: Create Nomination Results for September, 2011 |
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08-24-2011, 01:32 PM | #21 |
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08-24-2011, 03:51 PM | #24 |
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I will second In Cold Blood.
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Driving South from Naples, there is a place, more or less around where Eboli is, when one perceives that Europe stops, and something else starts. Even now. It is more noticeable driving from South to North, as one can see, after endless miles in a panorama that belongs to Homerus' times, the fertile fields, the factories, the power lines of modernity. So the tale of Carlo Levi is very true. He was a great man, a father of the country, although always kind and modest. He tells of his time in this God forgotten corner. Tells the story of the humbles, the violence that they suffer from the powerful, divided in the modernistic - on the side of the current government -and in the old fashioned - on the side of the brigants, the bandits - divided in factions but always united in taking advantages, in spoiling. Exactly like now, literally. Unfortunately for us, the artist Levi tells the story, with much human warmth and sympathy for the humbles. He touches our heart, rather than our minds. I consider it a novel. A narrative. An example of minor neorealism ( the early Calvino and Pasolini belonging to the major, with Carlo Emilio Gadda leading by far). I reread it quite recently as EBook. I enjoyed it, I liked the fresh prose, the warm humanity. But, being in Italy, I became so used to the drama of our deep South, to its hard crust, to its inclination to complain, and its resistence to change, that I could not finish it for the second time. A dejavu. That is why I do not third it. |
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I nominate The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates.
It is a while that I am reading by Frances Yates the Art of Memory, that I would have happily nominated, but there is no clean ebook that I know. so much knowledge of our past, so many occasions to learn, to deviate toward unexpected marvels. (I got a PDF somehow, somewhere). Here is the description of the book I am nominating. Spoiler:
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I'll third Letters by Heloise & Abelard
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My first pick would be Montaillou: Promised Land of Error but it's dead tree only.
I'll nominate the first English translation of Bardo Thopal, aka The Tibetan Book of the Dead edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Most are probably passingly familiar with this text, intended to be read aloud to the dying as a guide through the experiences accompanying death. I'll also add a nomination for Christ Stopped at Eboli, and reserve one nomination, but I'm pulling for the Jack London book. |
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