Literary Billi Vote • December 2014

sun surfer · 12-02-2014, 12:53 AM

Help choose the December 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days and a discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen.

The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. If you vote for the winner it is hoped that you will read the selection with the club and/or join in the discussion.

The rotating nominator (this month - Billi) may not vote in the poll. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day non-multiple-choice run-off poll where the rotating nominator again may not vote. If the run-off also ends in a tie then the tie will be resolved by the rotating nominator.

Select from the following works:

The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine

Spoiler:

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Spoiler:

The Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig

Spoiler:

The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

Spoiler:

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

Spoiler:

Mother by Maxim Gorki

Spoiler:

Three Soldiers by Jon Dos Passos

Spoiler:

Island Tales by Jack London

Spoiler:

Bookpossum · 12-02-2014, 04:49 AM

I'll wait until I get home to vote, so I can think about the list.

HomeInMyShoes · 12-02-2014, 10:03 AM

I'm not going to think too hard about this one and just vote for the two that really stood out for me on reading the snippets. The Trial would have been an easy vote, but I've already read it.

Hamlet53 · 12-03-2014, 05:43 PM

Much as I love both Kafka and Gorki, and despite how interesting I think a discussion of The Trial might be, I decided to cast votes only for authors that I have never read. (Chess Story by Zweig was the April 2013 selection).

I enjoyed going through the list of authors on this web site that was provided by Billi and trying to guess just what about them made the Nazis want to ban them, to burn their books. Some seem obvious—Kafka was Jewish and if not a book like The Trial would probably have been enough—but others seem a little puzzling. One nice thing about the Internet, and ebooks I suppose, is that any government preventing access to books has likely become impossible.

Billi · 12-04-2014, 06:25 AM

Thanks Hamlet. This was one of the points I wanted to make - to make aware of the book burning and what an incredible wide range of writers from all over the world have been forbidden. And what a sad remainder in the bookshops, besides the classics of Goethe and Schiller that they didn't dare to touch.

Hamlet53 · 12-05-2014, 06:59 AM

Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse Kindle edition at $0.00.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...6YW3HWK55XCGG2

View Poll Results: Billi Vote • December 2014, Multiple Choice
The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine	1	9.09%
The Trial by Franz Kafka	4	36.36%
The Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig	4	36.36%
The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler	4	36.36%
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse	6	54.55%
Mother by Maxim Gorki	4	36.36%
Three Soldiers by Jon Dos Passos	4	36.36%
Island Tales by Jack London	3	27.27%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll

12-02-2014, 12:53 AM	#1
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44637926 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	Billi Vote • December 2014 Help choose the December 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days and a discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen. The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. If you vote for the winner it is hoped that you will read the selection with the club and/or join in the discussion. The rotating nominator (this month - Billi) may not vote in the poll. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day non-multiple-choice run-off poll where the rotating nominator again may not vote. If the run-off also ends in a tie then the tie will be resolved by the rotating nominator. Select from the following works: The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37478 The Trial by Franz Kafka Spoiler: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ighlight=Kafka http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849 The Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45755 The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45895 Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4380 Mother by Maxim Gorki Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3783 Three Soldiers by Jon Dos Passos Spoiler: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6362 Island Tales by Jack London Spoiler: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ht=Jack+London

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12-02-2014, 04:49 AM	#2
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	I'll wait until I get home to vote, so I can think about the list.

12-02-2014, 10:03 AM	#3
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	I'm not going to think too hard about this one and just vote for the two that really stood out for me on reading the snippets. The Trial would have been an easy vote, but I've already read it.

12-03-2014, 05:43 PM	#4
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Much as I love both Kafka and Gorki, and despite how interesting I think a discussion of The Trial might be, I decided to cast votes only for authors that I have never read. (Chess Story by Zweig was the April 2013 selection). I enjoyed going through the list of authors on this web site that was provided by Billi and trying to guess just what about them made the Nazis want to ban them, to burn their books. Some seem obvious—Kafka was Jewish and if not a book like The Trial would probably have been enough—but others seem a little puzzling. One nice thing about the Internet, and ebooks I suppose, is that any government preventing access to books has likely become impossible.

12-04-2014, 06:25 AM	#5
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	Thanks Hamlet. This was one of the points I wanted to make - to make aware of the book burning and what an incredible wide range of writers from all over the world have been forbidden. And what a sad remainder in the bookshops, besides the classics of Goethe and Schiller that they didn't dare to touch.

12-05-2014, 06:59 AM	#6
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse Kindle edition at $0.00. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...6YW3HWK55XCGG2