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Sub-Saharan Africa | 2 | 18.18% | |
North Africa & The Middle East | 1 | 9.09% | |
Southeast Europe | 3 | 27.27% | |
Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain & France | 1 | 9.09% | |
North & Central Europe | 1 | 9.09% | |
Ireland & The U.K. | 1 | 9.09% | |
Canada & The U.S.A. | 9 | 81.82% | |
The South Pacific | 2 | 18.18% | |
Southeast Asia | 4 | 36.36% | |
Japan | 2 | 18.18% | |
The Korean Peninsula, Mongolia & China | 2 | 18.18% | |
South Asia | 2 | 18.18% | |
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02-02-2013, 04:07 PM | #46 |
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I'll second The Old Man and the Sea for my last choice.
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02-02-2013, 04:10 PM | #47 |
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There's the old saying, "The best laid plans of mice and men go often awry".
The real kicker is that there'd have been no controversy at all and we'd have had a perfect category for our recent interests if Time Period had been rightly listed. Well, in any case the mix-up has led to an interesting nominating month. ETA - I second Up From Slavery. Last edited by sun surfer; 02-02-2013 at 04:49 PM. Reason: to add more and to add a second |
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02-02-2013, 05:04 PM | #49 |
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And from me too.
I third Up from Slavery. |
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I reread very little these days, but I decided I'd be doing this category a disservice if I didn't nominate my favorite Canadian novel, Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies. From Goodreads:
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I've read a bunch of the recent nominations, so I guess I'll pick the one I liked the most to use up a nom and third The Good Earth. PS: Catch-22 sucks. |
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Thanks for the thanks.
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02-03-2013, 02:55 AM | #55 |
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I give my votes to Hemingway, Washington and Davies.
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02-03-2013, 06:46 AM | #56 |
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Fourth The Old Man and the Sea
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02-03-2013, 09:46 AM | #57 |
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Fourth The Good Earth.
Nominate The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. From Wikipedia (to those few who may not be familiar with this novel) Spoiler:
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Second Grapes of Wrath.
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I'll third Grapes of Wrath.
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I third Fifth Business. The description didn't pull me in right away, but issybird saying it's her favourite Canadian novel has me intrigued.
With my last nomination I had a hard time deciding between three books including The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (Canadian) and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston (Canadian), but I finally chose (the one from the U. S.): I nominate A Separate Peace by John Knowles. From Amazon: Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic. "A masterpiece." - National Review "A model of restraint, deeply felt and beautifully written." - The Observer |
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