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View Poll Results: Which books are your picks for the March 2015 MobileRead Book Club selection? | |||
West with the Night by Beryl Markham | 12 | 50.00% | |
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby | 4 | 16.67% | |
Timeline by Michael Crichton | 6 | 25.00% | |
Lost Horizon by James Hilton | 12 | 50.00% | |
A Lady Cyclist's Guide To Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson | 3 | 12.50% | |
South by Ernest Shackleton | 1 | 4.17% | |
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Albert Lansing | 10 | 41.67% | |
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain | 8 | 33.33% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll |
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03-04-2015, 07:52 PM | #16 | |
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As for Horizon, for me it's one of those rare cases where the movie is better than the book (the Ronald Colman version, of course). |
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03-05-2015, 02:01 AM | #17 |
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I went for Lost Horizon. It's the only book that I already had an interest in and I was rather pleasantly surprised to find that in Australia it's actually public domain. I suppose I'd read Timeline too, but it's not really high on my list.
This theme isn't a great one for me. Non-fiction is almost always a "pass". There are exceptions, but they are rare. |
03-05-2015, 08:41 AM | #18 |
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Wow, that was a quick change! I purchased both front runners last night having just finished the book I was reading and knowing I wanted to read both. I started West with the Night, anticipating it would be the winner.
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03-05-2015, 12:07 PM | #19 |
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Interesting. If this continues we will have our second run-off vote of the year and it is only March. We didn't have any last year.
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03-05-2015, 12:12 PM | #20 | |
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03-05-2015, 01:57 PM | #21 |
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I'm still strongly advocating Beryl Markham's masterpiece. Really, folks, this is one of the great books of the English language, and deserves a win here. And besides all that great book stuff, it's just a really excellent read.
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03-05-2015, 03:12 PM | #22 |
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It's certainly been an entertaining vote to watch.
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03-05-2015, 04:26 PM | #23 |
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I requested the front runners from both the regular and literary clubs. Hope they show up by mid next week.
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03-05-2015, 06:59 PM | #24 |
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And someone wanted to get rid of this category? -- it looks to me like we have at least three choices that folks are interested in reading. And I admit, I've already finished reading one of them, and have the other two on my Kindle.
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03-05-2015, 11:45 PM | #25 |
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Looks like a possible tie vote.
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03-06-2015, 12:42 AM | #26 |
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Woot! Second runoff vote in 3 months!
I voted for West with the Night, but I can't get it from my library as an e-book. I can get Lost Horizon though and it does seem interesting enough so I am fairly split in how I want this to turn out. Maybe I can try WwtN as an audio book? Not sure what I think about that, audio books have a hard time keeping my attention because I need to do something with my hands when I am listening to things and that tends to become my focus. |
03-06-2015, 07:56 AM | #27 |
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Looks like we'll be having a run off vote. I'm a bit busy at the moment, but in a couple of hours I'll set it up.
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03-06-2015, 10:15 AM | #28 |
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The runoff poll has been posted. Since this is a Friday, I decided to allow four days for voting instead of the normal three, since weekends tend to be slow around here.
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