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Me second vote goes to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro !
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Until January 27. Audible is lenient with returns, so one could make a preemptive purchase and return it if it's not picked.
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My library has a 163 paper copies and 10 electronic copies of The Fault in Our Stars. I'm pretty sure anyone with access to a library can survive this one without a purchase. There's only 1.1 million people in my province.
Never Let Me Go interests me. I'm also curious (if any have read it yet) as to how science fiction / dystopian it is as opposed to romance. I was looking through GoodReads members' shelving of the book. Romance was way down the list of shelves. Right now I'm leaning to Ali and Nino and The Fault in My Stars as my votes, although I think the two public domain classics would also be fine, although Jane Eyre being another mid-doorstopper length book might lose my vote if it makes it. Just my thoughts so far. |
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The Plum Tree
I'm going to nominate the Plum Tree by Ellen Wiesman. I've read it but loved the book so much I thought I'd nominate it as a suggestion for the rest of the group. I was enthralled with it. Romance isn't typically my genre. I picked this up more as a historical fiction book, but it has a central theme of romance.
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It's more love story set against a dystopian background, but it's not just either of those. Even though I've already seen the film and so the story is spoiled for me, I still want to read the book because I loved Ishiguro's writing in Remains of the Day (another book I read after seeing the film and still loved the book). |
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Thanks sun surfer. I just found it odd that it is rated more often as dystopian than romance and by a very wide margin (about five times as often.)
I've only read An Artist of the Floating World. I liked it enough, but I can see JSWolf's point and the potential for it to be a slower read. I'm not averse to that, but I think we've read enough period British works with the bookclub. I shall have to ponder my vote on this one. I know I'd read it if it wins, but I might vote for change within the bookclub. |
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I have no idea why it's listed so much more often as dystopian than romance. Maybe some difference with the book compared to the film. Maybe something to do with the difference in rigidity of classification - if a book has even a hint of sci-fi, it's usually called sci-fi, whereas a book can have romance in it without being called a romance book.
I'd consider Never Let Me Go a drama story with elements of romance, dystopian, mystery/thriller and even a sort of bildungsroman. There's actually a problem with labelling this story, but I can't get into my opinion on that without being too spoilery. Last edited by sun surfer; 01-22-2015 at 03:11 PM. |
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