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Old 01-20-2012, 07:20 PM   #16
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I'm seconding Tender is the Night.
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Old 01-20-2012, 08:33 PM   #17
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I suggest you ask for your nomination back as I can only find this in PDF and if that's true, then it has no chance to win.
So PDF books are no good? In that case I withdraw Candy by Maxwell Kenton.
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So PDF books are no good? In that case I withdraw Candy by Maxwell Kenton.
PDF books don't display well on a 6" eink screen. So it's a good idea that you are withdrawing your nomination.
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Old 01-20-2012, 08:38 PM   #19
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Is that fact that the nomination list post hasn't been updated in about 3 hours, proof that "Romance" is not one of Tom's favorite genres??
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Is that fact that the nomination list post hasn't been updated in about 3 hours, proof that "Romance" is not one of Tom's favorite genres??
To be honest, I think it's one of the bookclubs four worst months. The classics being two and horror being the other. Horror is a problem because we get silly books voted for in horror. Ones that are not creepy or scary. And classics, we usually get books that are dull, boring and just plain dated.
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To be honest, I think it's one of the bookclubs four worst months. The classics being two and horror being the other. Horror is a problem because we get silly books voted for in horror. Ones that are not creepy or scary. And classics, we usually get books that are dull, boring and just plain dated.
Agreed. There are some good classic books out there but the ones that get picked are so slow and boring.
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Old 01-20-2012, 10:07 PM   #22
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Agreed. There are some good classic books out there but the ones that get picked are so slow and boring.
I've figured out a classic to nominate for the next classic month. It's a modern classic and I bet a lot will complain it's not a classic. But it is and it fits and nobody has yet to give a catch-all definition of what a classic is because it isn't possible. A classic is subjective and that can't be defined.
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Old 01-20-2012, 11:40 PM   #23
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I'll suggest The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. It's available here and on Project Gutenberg. Inkmesh link.

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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”

This is Newland Archer’s world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love with her. Torn between duty and passion, Archer struggles to make a decision that will either courageously define his life—or mercilessly destroy it.
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Old 01-21-2012, 01:51 AM   #24
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Is that fact that the nomination list post hasn't been updated in about 3 hours, proof that "Romance" is not one of Tom's favorite genres??
Sorry, I got the first two ones put in, but was in and out during the time I am usually on.

I will try to get it caught up now.
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Old 01-21-2012, 07:23 AM   #25
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How about something from a fantasy/romance genre? I nominate Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Pretty long, but gets good reviews and is available from amazon and others.

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The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding Highland clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into intrigues and dangers that may threaten her life...and shatter her heart. For here she meets James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, and becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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This is NOT a category I particularly like, but I second Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie
(It was a freebie somewhere at some point so I actually have it, and might as well read it... No deeper reason than that! It should be pretty quick read.)
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Sorry, I got the first two ones put in, but was in and out during the time I am usually on.

I will try to get it caught up now.
No worries Dreams...I was being silly!
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Old 01-21-2012, 08:39 AM   #28
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To be honest, I think it's one of the bookclubs four worst months. The classics being two and horror being the other. Horror is a problem because we get silly books voted for in horror. Ones that are not creepy or scary. And classics, we usually get books that are dull, boring and just plain dated.
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Agreed. There are some good classic books out there but the ones that get picked are so slow and boring.
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I've figured out a classic to nominate for the next classic month. It's a modern classic and I bet a lot will complain it's not a classic. But it is and it fits and nobody has yet to give a catch-all definition of what a classic is because it isn't possible. A classic is subjective and that can't be defined.

First it is my understanding that there is a place to complain about categories, nomination process, and voting process. : Discussion/Suggestion thread



The way it works is that anyone is able to nominate any book they wish in any category subject to the restrictions that it must be available as and ebook and that it is not a repeat nomination. So anyone who thinks that he/she knows of a great ebook in the _____________ category should just nominate it. Then let the people who participate in this club make the decision. If the suggested ebook does not not receive enough additional confirmations to make it into the vote, or if that ebook does not receive a majority of the votes, then maybe few thought it was that great a book, or at least a majority thought another book was better?
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So PDF books are no good? In that case I withdraw Candy by Maxwell Kenton.
The Kobo store had Maxwell Kenton's Candy, available for download as Adobe DRM epub:

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Candy...0Sg/page1.html
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Age of Innocence is free on Kobo so I second it:
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-A...v_g/page1.html
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