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View Poll Results: What are your choices for the August Book Club book?
The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin 16 47.06%
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie 8 23.53%
The City at Worlds End by Edmond Hamilton 9 26.47%
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner 7 20.59%
Halting State by Charles Stross 2 5.88%
The Martian by Andy Weir 8 23.53%
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 5 14.71%
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke 10 29.41%
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 7 20.59%
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells 12 35.29%
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Old 07-28-2014, 07:22 AM   #46
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The Dispossessed it is.

I have updated the selections list thread with this and will add the discussion thread to that when it gets created.
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Old 07-29-2014, 03:55 PM   #48
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The Dispossessed it is.

I have updated the selections list thread with this and will add the discussion thread to that when it gets created.
And what a crappy choice it is too. Sorry, but it's all fluffy words and a waste of time to bother reading. Would have been better off with any of the others except the Rama one (that is also awful). The worst one won.
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And what a crappy choice it is too. Sorry, but it's all fluffy words and a waste of time to bother reading. Would have been better off with any of the others except the Rama one (that is also awful). The worst one won.
A rousing endorsement! You've made me excited to read it. Thanks!
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A rousing endorsement! You've made me excited to read it. Thanks!
If the book gets you excite, I'd have to see how excited you get for a good book.
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And what a crappy choice it is too. Sorry, but it's all fluffy words and a waste of time to bother reading. Would have been better off with any of the others except the Rama one (that is also awful). The worst one won.
I really liked Rama when I read it last year after it was nominated for this category. No, it doesn't have a lot of fast-paced action, but not every book needs to have that.

This isn't the first time a book that has been bashed, and thus publicized, has won in part because of that bashing when people who had previously been on the fence payed more attention to it. (Raises hand!)
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At least Wispersync is available for an extra $13 in addition to the regular ebook price. Not my first choice, but plodding through a 400 page tome is easier with the ears than it is with the eyes. And who knows? As a wit said of Wagner's music, it might be better than it sounds.
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And what a crappy choice it is too. Sorry, but it's all fluffy words and a waste of time to bother reading. Would have been better off with any of the others except the Rama one (that is also awful). The worst one won.
Jon, have you read The Dispossessed?

I haven't read LeGuin in a while, but I don't recall her being as bad as you describe.
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Jon, have you read The Dispossessed?

I haven't read LeGuin in a while, but I don't recall her being as bad as you describe.
Well, I have, and I expect the discussion to end up on the P & R restrictions Mach Schnell.

<shrug> It's in the subcategory of science fiction called 'Utopia fiction". Either you like it or you don't...

Is there a starting time for the discussion?
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Well, I have, and I expect the discussion to end up on the P & R restrictions Mach Schnell.

<shrug> It's in the subcategory of science fiction called 'Utopia fiction". Either you like it or you don't...

Is there a starting time for the discussion?
August 20 (see first post).
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I haven't read LeGuin in a while, but I don't recall her being as bad as you describe.
No, I've not read The Dispossessed. But I have read enough of her work to not want to read any more. I don't like the way she writes.
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Argh! I just realized that my library only has Adobe EPUB and Adobe PDF formats of this book. I guess I will need to find a different source. I wish I had remembered to check that but it is fairly uncommon anymore for them not to be available in Kindle format.

On the plus side, it is now available for anyone in the Oregon Digital Library Consortium who can use one of those formats.
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I've seen a number of eBooks from Overdrive only in ePub. It's not as uncommon as you think.
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No, I've not read The Dispossessed. But I have read enough of her work to not want to read any more. I don't like the way she writes.
Hi, I'd like to know some of your favorite titles.
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