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Kim by Rudyard Kipling 6 10.00%
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann 3 5.00%
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 10 16.67%
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 2 3.33%
The Virginian by Owen Wister 0 0%
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 4 6.67%
The Riddle of the Sands by Robert Erskine Childers 1 1.67%
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 5 8.33%
The Golden Bowl by Henry James 3 5.00%
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4 6.67%
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 4 6.67%
The Psammead Trilogy by Edith Nesbit 2 3.33%
The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain 0 0%
Before Adam by Jack London 1 1.67%
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 11 18.33%
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson 1 1.67%
Where Angels Fear to Tread by Edward Morgan Forster 0 0%
Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster 3 5.00%
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Old 05-15-2015, 08:52 AM   #46
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Voting is now open. There's no need to hurry - the poll will be open until the 15th June, that's four weeks and five weekends.

Do feel free to discuss the selections before making your choice. Try to read some you haven't read yet - at least a chapter or two - before making your choice. I shall certainly do so.

When you've voted, you might also like to vote in Lynx-Lynx's poll of which books you have read, see this thread.

Both polls will hide the results until the polls have closed. Note that the polls are not anonymous - people will be able to see what you've voted for at the end of the poll.
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Old 05-15-2015, 03:26 PM   #47
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I won't be voting in this poll, since I've only read one of the books.
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Old 05-15-2015, 03:44 PM   #48
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I won't be voting in this poll, since I've only read one of the books.
You have time to sample the rest!
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Think about it this way, a public poll is a specific choice to shed a layer of anonymity.

@pdurrant -- suggest something to me? My knowledge of books written before at least ~1950-60 is rather sketchy. A problem, I know perhaps this is the right opportunity to amend that.

I mainly read Sci-Fi/Fantasy, although I do enjoy mysteries as well -- Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes (that's the one I read).

And I can't stand books with animals as the characters.
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@pdurrant -- suggest something to me? My knowledge of books written before at least ~1950-60 is rather sketchy. A problem, I know perhaps this is the right opportunity to amend that.

I mainly read Sci-Fi/Fantasy, although I do enjoy mysteries as well -- Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes (that's the one I read).

And I can't stand books with animals as the characters.
Kim has elements of mystery in it. It's my nomination, so if you haven't read it, I'd urge you to give the first chapter a go, and see if it captures your interest.

Clearly, The Wind in the Willows doesn't appeal to you on the surface. But they're not really animals (i.e.. not Watership Down) so you might like it.

I like the Psammead Trilogy myself, but it's dated more than the others, perhaps.

I'm sure I've read The Call of the Wild, but I remember very little of it.

I'm sure you'll have read The Hound of the Baskervilles.

And there we reach the limits of my knowledge. It seeems I have some previews to read myself!
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Anne of Green Gables is an ok book.
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Anne of Green Gables is an ok book.
Must you gush so???
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You don't often see lightsaber-wielding Elves gush over books
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You don't often see lightsaber-wielding Elves gush over books
No. That is a very niche website indeed
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Mind telling us all what specifically you feel makes it an "ok book" (complete with underexaggerated enthusiasm)?

Unless you only wanted to preach to the choir (I'm sure there is one in this thread).
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Think about it this way, a public poll is a specific choice to shed a layer of anonymity.

@pdurrant -- suggest something to me? My knowledge of books written before at least ~1950-60 is rather sketchy. A problem, I know perhaps this is the right opportunity to amend that.

I mainly read Sci-Fi/Fantasy, although I do enjoy mysteries as well -- Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes (that's the one I read).

And I can't stand books with animals as the characters.
Okay, what about Kafka's The Trial? Have you read it? It's in the 1920's voting period, and whilst this book very likely isn't normally associated with sci-fi, Kafka bends time and space with great particularity in order to tell the story.

And one of the major themes, justice, is as totally relevant today as it was at the time of writing (circa 1913).

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One of my comments to self was that Kafka must have been seeing little green fairies* at the time of devising various scenes in the book, and again at the time of writing other aspects.

(*after absinthe consumption)

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Every Canadian child reads Anne of Green Gables in school and it is one of the (few) books from my school curriculum that I really enjoyed. Despite having read none of the other books from the list of nominees, I am not inclined to attempt any others before the voting closes because Anne has my heart for this decade.
I was educated in Alberta, and we never read the book in school. At least in my case, that was probably a good thing. I was a boy who was interested in science and detective stories, and who didn't have the maturity to accept much beyond that. Having read it as an adult, I was able to accept both Anne and her imagination.
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I was educated in Alberta, and we never read the book in school. At least in my case, that was probably a good thing. I was a boy who was interested in science and detective stories, and who didn't have the maturity to accept much beyond that. Having read it as an adult, I was able to accept both Anne and her imagination.
I knew as soon as I posted that there would be an exception. But it is probably one of the most widely read Canadian books in school. I don't have any data, but I would assume that Anne tops anything written by Farley Mowat or Margaret Atwood. What books by Canadian authors did you read in (public) school?
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Well, I voted AoGG.
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I was educated in Alberta, and we never read the book in school. At least in my case, that was probably a good thing. I was a boy who was interested in science and detective stories, and who didn't have the maturity to accept much beyond that. Having read it as an adult, I was able to accept both Anne and her imagination.
Very cool insight. I've been quite fascinated by my own changes in preferences over the years when it comes to reading various genres and age related books.
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