MobileRead March 2011 Mobile Read Book Club Vote

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Lloyd Simcoe

Game over ...
"Voters: 63. This poll is closed"

Ah well. I was hoping the better book would have won.

[CHunter_Author]

I hardly read non-fiction but that Cleopatra book is a page turner. No wonder it's an award winner.

[issybird]

The winner is the only one I've read, so very many years ago that I'll give it a go again. Several of the others are now on my TBR list, including the runner-up (which had my vote). Special thanks for the nomination of Nobility of Spirit.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Ah well. I was hoping the better book would have won.

Hey, my first choice would have been from a couple of the books nominated, but didn't even make it to the vote. That said there is only one of the set that did come into the voting, well maybe two, that I would have declined to participate had either won. But then I'm just not a sky pilot type of guy.

It is a bit much to pronounce one book (I presume you mean Unbroken) as the "better book." I don't see that anyone can say that, except as just as more "I liked this one more" sense about what are all good books. Not that one cannot say one book is better than another, as for example The Trial is better than The Da Vinci Code.

[jgaiser]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Ah well. I was hoping the better book would have won.

Honestly Jon... By what measure was your pick the better one? The one that the most people wanted to read was the winner.

Has there *ever* been a Book Club vote that you have ever agreed with???

[Asawi]

Well, I probably won't be reading this month's book, but I'm really pleased to see a couple of the other nominees really spark my interest. So I'm a happy camper anyway!
After all, if everyone liked the same stuff I do this world would be really weird place!

[beppe]

Originally Posted by issybird

The winner is the only one I've read, so very many years ago that I'll give it a go again. Several of the others are now on my TBR list, including the runner-up (which had my vote). Special thanks for the nomination of Nobility of Spirit.

I imagine that I can thank you for those, as I think it was me that proposed the book. I just finished it. It is a little book, and somehow I am glad that it was not elected. After reading it I have serious doubts that it would have generated a lively discussion.

I read it hoping to find analysis and arguments of a certain "usefulness". About that I was deceived. But I found other things, maybe more important and maybe, on the long run, more profitable, for me at least. I found the stimulus to reread Thomas Mann and Goethe, which I have not been reading since my youth. Too bad that I will have to read them in Italian. I never shared the concept of the centrality of the German Culture of the author and of Mann, although I am a big admirer of it. Nevertheless the message reached me strong and clear and with it the motivation to look back in time and there find new energy and scope.

If anybody would like to discuss this interesting little book with me, just drop me a word in my personal page and I will open a thread to that purpose.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Honestly Jon... By what measure was your pick the better one? The one that the most people wanted to read was the winner.

Has there *ever* been a Book Club vote that you have ever agreed with???

No.



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[Gatton]

My Library of America subscription book this month just happens to be a collection of Franklin's writings including the Autobiography. Looking forward to the discussion. Cheers.

[Nyssa]

I don't think I'm going to get to this one, this month, there is just too much going on in RL. It is, however, still towards the top of my Must Read list.

[JSWolf]

From the little I've looked at the book, there seems to be a lot of his life missing.