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Akhenaten by Naguib Mahfouz | 5 | 50.00% | |
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul | 2 | 20.00% | |
Desert by J.M.G. Le Clézio | 3 | 30.00% | |
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata | 4 | 40.00% | |
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago | 4 | 40.00% | |
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer | 4 | 40.00% | |
The Passport by Herta Müller | 4 | 40.00% | |
No Man's Land by Harold Pinter | 1 | 10.00% | |
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek | 3 | 30.00% | |
The Pathseeker by Imre Kertesz | 3 | 30.00% | |
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04-01-2014, 12:32 PM | #1 |
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Hamlet53 Vote • April 2014
Help us choose the April 2014 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for three days.
The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. The Rotating nominator (this month - Hamlet53) may not vote in the poll. A discussion thread will begin shortly after a winner is chosen. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day non-multiple-choice run-off poll (where the Rotating nominator again may note vote). In the event that the run-off poll also ends in a tie, the tie will be resolved by the Rotating nominator. Select from the following works: Akhenaten by Naguib Mahfouz Spoiler:
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Spoiler:
Desert by J.M.G. Le Clézio Spoiler:
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata Spoiler:
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago Spoiler:
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer Spoiler:
The Passport by Herta Müller Spoiler:
No Man's Land by Harold Pinter Spoiler:
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek Spoiler:
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04-01-2014, 01:02 PM | #2 |
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Each new batch of rotating nominations is "a time of gifts" (). Mulling over them is a pleasure.
I need to think about this batch a bit before voting. There is a French/Austrian film of The Piano Teacher that is really fantastic, though dark (it is the same director as Amour). Isabelle Huppert gives another stellar performance as the title character. |
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04-01-2014, 06:59 PM | #3 |
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What a terrific selection Hamlet - I want to read them all! Like sun surfer, I need to take a bit of time to work out my priorities, and also the availability of the books.
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04-02-2014, 12:07 AM | #4 |
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I will definitely be voting for Saramago as that is already on my TBR list. However, I know almost none of the others, so I think I'll do a bit of research before I make my choice.
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04-02-2014, 02:00 AM | #5 |
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Hamlet, I've always found your goal interesting to read all the Nobel prize winners and I was thinking if I could "borrow" it. So, this month seems to be a good start into a very long literary adventure!
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Great choices, Hamlet53. I think it is going to be another month of close votes!
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So I hope that with ten different authors to select from the final choice will be good with everyone. |
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04-03-2014, 01:17 AM | #8 |
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04-03-2014, 08:59 PM | #9 |
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Starting to look like a tie!
I'm barracking for Akhnaten - such an interesting man to make such radical changes. |
04-04-2014, 01:31 PM | #10 |
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Thanks for voting all. So it will be Akhenaten. It sounds interesting to me, and all of these are on my TBR list anyway so I could not lose.
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04-04-2014, 02:03 PM | #11 |
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Even though I didn't vote, I'm delighted Akhenaten won and look forward to reading it. I just returned to wifi range a couple of days ago and haven't yet caught up on the MR forums or reading. Just finished On the Trail of Genghis Khan yesterday and am reading a book with an Albuquerque setting (where I am now) before wading into April's club choices.
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04-04-2014, 05:44 PM | #12 |
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Akhenaten it is!
I would've read any of the ten that won, but I'm happy for Akhenaten out of the ones I didn't vote for. If I had voted for four instead of three, then I would've voted for it as well. The only reason I left off is because I noticed it was rather short and I thought the others I voted for might be a meatier read for a club selection. It was an easy reason to eliminate one but that was a superficial elimination since any length of work can be mentally stimulating and engrossing if well written. This looks to be an interesting read and discussion and I'm excited to finally read something by Mahfouz (though I could've said that about most of them as I haven't read anything yet by nine of the ten!). I'll have the discussion thread up within a day. |
04-04-2014, 06:32 PM | #13 |
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I'm looking forward to it - sounds fascinating.
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04-04-2014, 10:20 PM | #14 |
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Just downloaded it: there are some 50% off codes at Kobo, shown on the front page, for those who use epub.
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Although I didn't vote for this one, I reconsidered my interest when I looked at it again and I snapped it up on Amazon. Interestingly, this is the first time I've coughed up $9.99 at Amazon for a long, long time.
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