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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Posts like these make my day and confirm my love for MR. I nominated Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins not only because it deserves more attention for both the humor and the audacious tackling of the most sensitive issues of the decade, but it also makes for a more interesting list. I say, nominate whatever we have most loved and let it all get sorted out in the end. Better than copying lists from the 'experts'. I'm delighted with the interesting nominations.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Exactly so. I want personal nominations of books that people have actually read and consider 'best' by whatever criteria they want to judge 'best'.
There's no point in nominating a book by reputation.
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I couldn't agree more with you. Mixed in with my 1950's authors/books is Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat.
I loved his books when I was being introduced to reading, and I used them to learn new words and a different way of looking at things (and I've always loved cats).
On another note - Paul I'm still trying to work through how the voting is going to be anything other than an outcome that identifies the greatest number of people who have read a particular author/book during a particular ten year period.
By that I mean that I know I'm only going to vote for a book that I've read, and that for me is the best in the decade, and I would imagine that is how people are intended to voted. So, that being the case, it seems to me that the book that generates the most votes will in fact be the
most read book of that decade and therefore considered 'the best book' of the decade (whatever that should mean to the individual), by default.
As the greatest number of participants are likely to be US citizens then the vote will be weighted to reflect the greatest number of US citizens who have read the author/book in any given decade.
My thinking flawed?
What I'm getting out of this thread is the enjoyment of reading people's nominations and an updated reading list, and whilst I will put my list forward, the outcome of the vote isn't of particular importance - but it will be of interest.
