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View Poll Results: What Travel/Adventure book will enthrall us in March? | |||
The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer | 10 | 25.64% | |
Wild by Cheryl Strayed | 10 | 25.64% | |
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson | 13 | 33.33% | |
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce | 7 | 17.95% | |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne | 13 | 33.33% | |
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale by Amitav Ghosh | 9 | 23.08% | |
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer | 10 | 25.64% | |
Endurance by Alfred Lansing | 7 | 17.95% | |
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard | 8 | 20.51% | |
In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin | 6 | 15.38% | |
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02-23-2013, 08:04 PM | #46 | |
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Come on people Wild needs just 3 more votes without any other book getting another vote.
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02-24-2013, 03:53 AM | #48 |
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This is another one of those really close runs.
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02-24-2013, 04:26 AM | #49 | |
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Edit: LOL! I see now that FLP have both, and there's a longer waitlist on the Oprah version! I'm on the waitlist at another library that only has one version, and judging from ISBN it's the non-Oprah. Phew! Last edited by Asawi; 02-24-2013 at 04:34 AM. |
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02-24-2013, 07:07 AM | #50 |
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Those Oprah underlines sound annoying. Probably safer to vote for something else, like...
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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If and when Jules Verne's book would be the choice of the month; which part of it would I have to read, or both? Is it one book in English?
I have two old books: 20,000 leagues under the sea eastern hemisphere and 20,000 leagues under the sea western hemisphere. Last edited by desertblues; 05-06-2015 at 11:22 AM. |
02-25-2013, 09:37 AM | #53 |
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Jules Verne seems to making a final charge. His book was my first choice.
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02-25-2013, 02:21 PM | #54 |
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I'd love to read the Ron Miller's new version of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but it seems a stretch to say it fits into the "Travel/Adventure" category. Cloud Atlas was a far better fit for the Science Fiction category than the Verne book is for Travel/Adventure.
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Well, I was looking forward to this category, but I am not looking forward to reading the book that looks like it will win.
I will read Wild when I get it from the library. I may read a couple of the others as well, but I think I'll skip Jules Verne. No big deal though! Wouldn't things be boring if we all agreed on everything?! |
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Mr. Verne seems to have moved up and taken the lead since I voted for him. A coincidence I'm sure but an interesting one. I wonder what he'd have thought if someone had told him that one day people all over the world would be discussing his book in a place that had no physical location (i.e. cyberspace). I imagine he'd have thought such a thing pure fantasy.
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