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Old 10-25-2015, 07:07 PM   #31
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I'm out of nominations, but I'd love to see this chosen. It would be just the goad I needed to get it read, also!
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Old 10-25-2015, 10:51 PM   #32
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I'll second Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar.
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Old 10-26-2015, 12:59 AM   #33
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I'm out of nominations, but I'd love to see this chosen. It would be just the goad I needed to get it read, also!
I'm not sure I'll vote for it, but I'll happily use my third for it, Issy. Then we can let the vote decide.
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Old 10-26-2015, 07:37 AM   #34
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I'm not sure I'll vote for it, but I'll happily use my third for it, Issy. Then we can let the vote decide.
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Old 10-26-2015, 07:47 AM   #35
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I'll third Kafka on the Shore and provide a description from Goodreads:

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Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their odyssey, as mysterious to them as it is to us, is enriched throughout by vivid accomplices and mesmerizing events. Cats and people carry on conversations, a ghostlike pimp employs a Hegel-quoting prostitute, a forest harbors soldiers apparently unaged since World War II, and rainstorms of fish (and worse) fall from the sky. There is a brutal murder, with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle - yet this, along with everything else, is eventually answered, just as the entwined destinies of Kafka and Nakata are gradually revealed, with one escaping his fate entirely and the other given a fresh start on his own.
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Bad news- I just went to find ebook links to post here for Memoirs of Hadrian and found that it isn't available as an ebook. I should've checked before posting. I think that means that it's not eligible for this club, so I withdraw it. Sorry for bursting your bubble issybird; I was looking forward to the possibility of it too!
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Old 10-26-2015, 02:40 PM   #37
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I know it's the eleventh hour but let me try again-

I nominate The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe, originally written in Japanese; it sounds intriguing.

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The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers that the locals have other plans. Held captive with seemingly no chance of escape, he is tasked with shoveling back the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten to destroy the village. His only companion is an odd young woman. Together their fates become intertwined as they work side by side at this Sisyphean task.

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I'll use the rest of my nominations on Resurrection and Roadside Picnic. The Manuscript Found at the Saragossa looks interesting too but I have no more votes.
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Old 10-26-2015, 02:45 PM   #38
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Bad news- I just went to find ebook links to post here for Memoirs of Hadrian and found that it isn't available as an ebook. I should've checked before posting. I think that means that it's not eligible for this club, so I withdraw it. Sorry for bursting your bubble issybird; I was looking forward to the possibility of it too!
Oh, I knew it wasn't an ebook; I just assumed the rule had been relaxed.
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Old 10-26-2015, 02:46 PM   #39
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I'll second The Woman in the Dunes. It's on my list of books from Japan to read.
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Oh, I knew it wasn't an ebook; I just assumed the rule had been relaxed.
Ah, well, in that case we'll need a ruling from the Grand Muckity-Muck! I'd still love for it to win.
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Ah, well, in that case we'll need a ruling from the Grand Muckity-Muck! I'd still love for it to win.
Nominations end tonight and it won't be keeping anything else from the slate, so I hope he's lenient. I really don't know the current status of that rule; I thought it had been changed, but that could be wishful thinking.
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Old 10-26-2015, 03:51 PM   #42
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Bad news- I just went to find ebook links to post here for Memoirs of Hadrian and found that it isn't available as an ebook. I should've checked before posting. I think that means that it's not eligible for this club, so I withdraw it. Sorry for bursting your bubble issybird; I was looking forward to the possibility of it too!
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Oh, I knew it wasn't an ebook; I just assumed the rule had been relaxed.
Correct me if Im wrong, but I can't recall ever having a rule that a nomination must be available as an ebook, although it certainly lessens a book's chances in the poll if it isn't.
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I'll second Resurrection. I like offbeat detectives.

And I'll let the nomination stand for Memoirs of Hadrian stand as is unless it turns out we really do have a rule. CRussel has already given a third to it.
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Great! Then I've used one too many votes, so going by order listed would rescind my support for Roadside Picnic, unfortunately.
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