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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 8 | 19.51% | |
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope | 12 | 29.27% | |
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes | 6 | 14.63% | |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 4 | 9.76% | |
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 19 | 46.34% | |
Animal Farm by George Orwell | 16 | 39.02% | |
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek | 6 | 14.63% | |
All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper | 7 | 17.07% | |
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03-30-2013, 06:14 PM | #46 | |
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03-30-2013, 08:45 PM | #47 |
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A Study in Scarlet is now two votes ahead. I hope it wins. Animal Farm is a great book, but Holmes is always so verly much fun to read and discuss.
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03-31-2013, 08:16 AM | #48 |
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A Study in Scarlet it is.
I've heard the story as a full cast audio play (both Norwegian and English versions, I think), but I haven't read it. I don't think I've read any of the original Holmes stories, so I'm looking forward to it. |
03-31-2013, 08:28 AM | #49 |
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You're in for a treat—and I'm in for a re-read.
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03-31-2013, 08:30 AM | #50 |
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I feel like the choices this time were really an embarrassment of riches; I was interested in reading almost any of them. Some people said they decided to vote for one of the two in the lead, but I'm the opposite - I decided to not vote for one of the two in the lead. I would've supported both, but seeing them so close, I went with only the one I preferred most.
I've actually never read a Sherlock Holmes before, so this will be a first for me. Where better to start than the beginning? |
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03-31-2013, 11:12 AM | #51 |
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03-31-2013, 11:14 AM | #52 |
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03-31-2013, 02:26 PM | #53 |
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Hmmm... wonder if there are more MB Book Club members that use the same South Carolina library I use... A few days ago I was 3:rd in line for the one copy they have of"Animal Farm". Today all of a sudden I got an email I could check it out.
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03-31-2013, 07:48 PM | #57 |
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Well it wasn't me. I have the perfect alibi. I'm way up in Southern Wisconsin.
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I've never read Cooper and always felt about it. But now that I have read Twain's essay, I don't think I'll be in a hurry to do so. This passage left me gobsmacked! 'In the Deerslayer story he lets Deerslayer talk the showiest kind of book-talk sometimes, and at other times the basest of base dialects. For instance, when some one asks him if he has a sweetheart, and if so, where she abides, this is his majestic answer: "'She's in the forest-hanging from the boughs of the trees, in a soft rain—in the dew on the open grass—the clouds that float about in the blue heavens—the birds that sing in the woods—the sweet springs where I slake my thirst—and in all the other glorious gifts that come from God's Providence!' And he preceded that, a little before, with this: "'It consarns me as all things that touches a fri'nd consarns a fri'nd.'" ' Last edited by fantasyfan; 04-01-2013 at 02:44 PM. |
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Ok, I see the book voted on. Now where do we go to join the club?
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