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On The Beach by Nevil Shute |
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12 | 35.29% |
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov |
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22 | 64.71% |
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The MobileRead Literary Book Club June 2011 Run-Off Vote
Help us choose the June 2011 selection to read for the inaugural month of the MobileRead Literary Book Club! The run-off poll will be open for one day.
We will start the discussion thread for the selected work on June 17th and a thread for July's nominations will be created five days later on June 22nd. I will start the threads, but the discussion thread may have a "discussion leader" if one volunteers. Everyone can post whatever thoughts they wish on the month's selection, but the discussion leader's goal will be to continue the dialogue in a thought-provoking direction with discussion questions and the like. Unlike pilotbob with the general book club, I will vote in this 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 five of its initial nominations first. Select from the following works: On The Beach by Nevil Shute Spoiler:
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Spoiler:
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Apologies On the Beach, but I voted for you previously only to vote against you now.
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Ha! Dead heat so far. I really want to read On the Beach and if it wins, will promise to lead a good discussion on it (since I was the nominator).
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I just finished On the Beach, so even though I thirded (or fourthed) it, I'm voting for The Master And Margarita... and starting it. I figure I win either way.
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My original choice didn't even come close. The Master And Margarita caught my attention when I looked at the two in the lead, so it gets my vote.
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I've read On the Beach and it's merely a popular novel, IMO, and not especially worthy. I also suspect it hasn't aged well.
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My own nomination didn't make it but I would be happy with either of these two.
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It's a hard choice for me. I found all five of the nominations interesting.
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I voted for The Master And Margarita as coincidentally they mentioned it on the Book Review on the BBC a couple of days ago, citing it as an example of the best in it's class.
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Since I nominated the book, I will volunteer to be the "discussion leader" but if anyone else wants to be a co-leader I would be happy to share.
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Too bad. The better book didn't win.
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And so we have our selection!
Personally I want to read the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation; that's the translation I'm reading of Anna Karenina and I think they're very good. Does anyone know where I can get that version in a format that will read on my Sony? |
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