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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 22 25.88%
Risen by Jan Strnad 41 48.24%
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay 22 25.88%
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Old 10-04-2010, 09:13 PM   #76
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I'm not sure if I protested in the nomination thread. But I did protest in this thread. And to be honest, because the Dexter book was allowed, I do feel that the entire vote is wrong and should be redone with just the two books.
Jon, you're not happy with the nominations or the vote and want to void it all. Well... that's a change... usually you are so contented.

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I'm not sure if I protested in the nomination thread. But I did protest in this thread. And to be honest, because the Dexter book was allowed, I do feel that the entire vote is wrong and should be redone with just the two books.
I just downloaded a sample of Darkly Dreaming Dexter. It's not exactly horror, but what other category would you place a book in whose hero is a serial killing psychopath? It doesn't fit the Romance or Humor categories. Poe's "The Black Cat" is considered horror, and there's not a supernatural element in it. In fact, there's very little if any of the supernatural in the writings of the "Master of the Macabre."

I just finished Risen and loved it. I hope to read all three of this month's selections before Seth calls me home.
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Poe is "psychological horror", Tom.

The "Dexter" books are thrillers.
Serial killer/vigilante thrillers, to be exact.

If they are horror, Stephen King's "Misery" is romance.
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Jon, you're not happy with the nominations or the vote and want to void it all. Well... that's a change... usually you are so contented.

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But why was a book that's not horror allowed into the vote when the category is horror? Now we have a skewed vote because the Dexter book is not horror at all. It is a thriller as reculse said previously. All the votes for the Dexter book could possible have gone to the other losing book making it a winner. So really, all the votes for the Dexter book should be recast for one of the other books. I know it was said that if three people think it's horror, it is, but they were incorrect. So if three people wanted Gone With the Wind, would it be classed as horror also?
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If they are horror, Stephen King's "Misery" is romance.
That's the best comparison I've seen, and it made me laugh LOL.

Dexter isn't horror, I don't even have it in my catalog as horror, or Thriller, it's just under Fiction.
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But why was a book that's not horror allowed into the vote when the category is horror?
What was your nomination? I missed it.
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What was your nomination? I missed it.
I didn't nominate. I missed the fact that the nomination thread was going to on;y run for way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too short a time.
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I didn't nominate. I missed the fact that the nomination thread was going to on;y run for way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too short a time.
It ran for the same amount of time any other nomination thread ran for. As a matter of fact, it ran longer... because previous months recently we have gotten to 10 books quite quickly.

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It ran for the same amount of time any other nomination thread ran for. As a matter of fact, it ran longer... because previous months recently we have gotten to 10 books quite quickly.

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Did we start discussing this somewhere yet? Did we even declare the winner? Unbelievable as I find this, it's October already!
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Did we start discussing this somewhere yet? Did we even declare the winner? Unbelievable as I find this, it's October already!
The winner is _Risen_ see the poll. THe discussions starts on the 20th of the month.

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