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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia | 6 | 66.67% | |
Purge by Sofi Oksanen, Estonia | 5 | 55.56% | |
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Russia | 2 | 22.22% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 9. You may not vote on this poll |
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11-05-2012, 09:10 AM | #1 |
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Central Asia, East Europe & Russia Vote • November 2012
Help us choose the November 2012 selection to read for the MR Literary Club! The poll will be open for two 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: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia Spoiler:
Purge by Sofi Oksanen, Estonia Spoiler:
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Russia Spoiler:
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11-05-2012, 04:16 PM | #2 |
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I had forgotten that voting for multiple options was possible. I feel that if I do that I have done nothing to further an outcome. Doctor Zhivago is one I will read sometime [my Nobel Prize winners quest], so I will choose between the other two. It's a tough call, but I am going with We.
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11-05-2012, 04:49 PM | #3 |
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I had hoped to avoid a Russian book this time; I look upon the region month as being a horizon-expander, a time to read something from somewhere less trodden. So I'll be voting for Plunge. As an aside, I've read Dr. Zhivago and I've got so many books I'd like to read by year-end that it's hard to justify a re-read (and I don't remember it well enough to discuss it without one).
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11-06-2012, 05:44 AM | #4 |
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I voted for Purge. I read Zhivago earlier in the year. So its time for something new.
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11-06-2012, 06:07 AM | #5 |
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I stuck with my nomination because I can't go past the grandfather of dystopian fiction.
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11-06-2012, 10:21 AM | #6 |
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I've always wanted to read Doctor Zhivago, couldn't help nominating it and if it wins I'll gladly finally get to read it, but, after seeing the rest of the nominations and considering its length and the other books I'm trying to read before the end of the year, I'll be fine with it not winning this month.
We sounds interesting and honestly I've barely ever heard of it before so it's something new to me, but, though the film The Blue Angel is great, I've never been a fan of that kind of storyline and the description compared them, so that makes me hesitant, but I'll still be happy to read it if it wins. Purge sounds very serious and with a newer unknown writer I'm unsure how good the writing will be, but the description is intriguing and I do think it would be interesting to read a book from a lesser known country from our chosen region such as Estonia, so for those reasons I think I'm slightly pulling for Purge to win. |
11-06-2012, 10:41 AM | #7 |
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Purge won several literary prizes, so I'm assuming it's not as trashy as the synopsis suggests. I think it would be a good perspective on Soviet occupation and subsequent liberation in any case.
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11-06-2012, 11:16 AM | #8 |
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Can't decide. Always wanted to read Doctor Zhivago. However, Purge looks really, really good. At any rate, I'm thankful to whomever nominated Purge, I may never have discovered it otherwise. (Like my to-read list isn't long enough already)
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11-07-2012, 10:02 AM | #9 |
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I had We on my potentail read list so maybe this pushes me to bring it to the top, well, topish of the list. I put a request in to my library for a copy when it's available.
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11-07-2012, 05:16 PM | #10 |
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I stumbled across the original translation of this work in English which is actually public domain (it seems).
The translator was Gregory Zilboorg. http://mises.org/books/we_zamiatin.pdf Unfortunately it's PDF only. If I had time I would convert it to epub, but I think I'll read this version. I've read also that the Alexander Glinka translation is not as good to read as the Natasha Randall version, both of which are available in Amazon and B&N. |
11-07-2012, 07:37 PM | #11 |
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Many thanks for the link!
(Never been to mises pretty awesome site.) |
11-08-2012, 04:31 AM | #12 | |
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