I agree, the point of the 6-mo rule is to prevent a single book coming up all the time, not to prevent a book from being nominated again a year later.

LOL!!! OK, I will withdraw my nomination of Dr. Moreau!

If there is another HG Wells book that someone would like to read, I will be happy to support it. But until someone speaks up, I will go again with The Invisible Man.

Who knows, it may come in second again, and then we'll see it again in January! :)

Of the nominations so far, I've not interested in any of the ones I haven't read. My first nomination is clearly going nowhere (too expensive/unavailable, I guess) and I've obviously read that. I'll have to pick something I haven't read for my third nomination. I'll have a think...

[Hmm... a lot harder. I can think of several that I've enjoyed, but obviously I've read them. I guess I'll just have to wait for someone else to nominate something that looks interesting, and preferably written within the last 10 years or so!]

H G Wells - you can't avoid a nomination for him in a Sci-Fi month can you?

I don't necessarily get a big Sci-Fi vibe from The Atrocity Archives, but I'm going to give it a second anyway. I do want to read it and I happen to own it - so why not?

And just to add to a general sense of inevitabilism, I'll also give a nod to The Invisible Man, one of Wells' novels I haven't read yet.

I'm out of nominations, but it sure would be nice if someone were to nominate Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. I just had this title recalled to mind after asking for help in the "Name that book?" thread. It's been around 50 years since I've read it and it's time for a re-read.

Just to be obliging, I'll spend my last nomination on Stranger in a Strange Land.

Has it really been five years since The Island of Dr. Moreau? Wow. How time flies; it seems like only yesterday. It's hard to believe we're all half a decade older than we were when we discussed that book.

Now there's a book that I wouldn't mind re-reading. But mostly to see how well it has held up. I suspect not that well, though it was a big book of my youth. But I have no tokens left.

The other Heinlein nomination seems more appealing to me; I suspect this is the sort of classic tome that would put me off the genre forever. ;)

Several of this month's nominations look like fun to this non-SciFier, but that might not be much of a recommendation for the hard-core types. :D

Here's the passage from that book that has stayed with me for five decades:

Oh, I quite agree. This would not be the Heinlein I'd recommend as a first choice for you. OTOH, I think both of those I nominated would, in very different ways, be good choices. (I admit, I was actually thinking of you a bit when I put them forward.)

Thank you, Charlie, I did note that! ;) I appreciate your being gentle with me. :)

Not so much gentle as wanting to help you discover something new and fun. I get almost as much pleasure out of others enjoying a book or author as I do out of reading the author myself. For example, consider our discussions around Patrick O'Brian. And I could be totally wrong - it wouldn't be the first time. But oh the joy of success. :D

I share your philosophy, in fact. And if a suggestion never goes wrong, you're (I'm) not trying hard enough; we're playing it too safe.

In a related vein, years ago Earl Nightingale used to say that if you accomplished everything on your to-do list for the day, the list was too short.