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Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad, 1911 | 7 | 53.85% | |
The Gods Are Athirst by Anatole France, 1912 | 3 | 23.08% | |
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, 1905 | 3 | 23.08% | |
The Mother by Grazia Deledda, 1920 | 3 | 23.08% | |
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, 1915 | 7 | 53.85% | |
Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Max Beerbohm, 1911 | 5 | 38.46% | |
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford, 1915 | 2 | 15.38% | |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 1920 | 5 | 38.46% | |
Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott by Sinclair Lewis, 1920 | 4 | 30.77% | |
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05-06-2014, 11:24 AM | #1 |
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1901-1920 Vote • May 2014
Help us choose the May 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. 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. In the event that the run-off poll also ends in a tie, the tie will be resolved in favour of the selection that received all of its initial nominations first. Select from the following works: Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad, 1911 Spoiler:
The Gods Are Athirst by Anatole France, 1912 Spoiler:
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Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott by Sinclair Lewis, 1920 Spoiler:
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05-06-2014, 07:40 PM | #2 |
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Some great choices once again - what a team we are to be sure!
The hard decision was which ones to leave out, but I'm sure I would be happy to read any of them. |
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05-06-2014, 07:56 PM | #3 |
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In case it helps the choice, both The Gods are Thirsty and Main Street are available in the Adelaide University ebooks collection.
If you don't know it, it's worth adding to your collection of ebook sources, as all the ones I have had from there are good clean copies, and they are available in either Kindle or ePub. The website is http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au |
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I went with the 39 steps which is available here at MR.
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05-09-2014, 11:47 AM | #5 |
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And we have a tie! Looking at who had yet to vote, I thought that that might happen at the last minute...literally.
For my part, I thought the selection this month was really good and couldn't decide at the beginning nor at the end, so decided not to vote since voting for all of them would be pointless (and, near the end, thought that with the probably-happening tie that I could wait until the run-off to decide, if I must...perhaps the run-off will be more lop-sided and therefore easier). I will put up the run-off in awhile, to give people a chance to see the that there's a tie first. Last edited by sun surfer; 05-09-2014 at 11:51 AM. |
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I voted for both of these so it looks like I'm going to be happy regardless of the outcome.
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I'm barracking for Conrad, as I haven't read that one and, I have read Buchan a couple of times during my misspent youth and adulthood. |
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05-10-2014, 01:02 AM | #9 |
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I don't think I'll know what I'm going to vote until I click the button. On the one hand, I nominated Buchan because I haven't read this book and it's on my TBR pile. On the other, the Conrad book looks good and wasn't on my TBR pile.
So it's a matter of deciding whether to go for the book I wanted to read and probably will read when I get to it, and a book that looks good, but that I wouldn't have thought of reading if it weren't for this book club. It's tempting to opt out and just let the remaining voters decide for me. |
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