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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden | 12 | 29.27% | |
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer | 9 | 21.95% | |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | 6 | 14.63% | |
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord | 15 | 36.59% | |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark | 10 | 24.39% | |
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch | 9 | 21.95% | |
Gulp by Mary Roach | 12 | 29.27% | |
Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè | 6 | 14.63% | |
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna | 15 | 36.59% | |
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06-22-2013, 12:56 PM | #1 |
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July 2013 Book Club Vote
July 2013 MobileRead Book Club Vote
Help us choose a book as the July 2013 eBook for the MobileRead Book Club. The poll will be open for 5 days. There will be no runoff vote unless the voting results a tie, in which case there will be a 3 day run-off poll. This is a visible poll: others can see how you voted. It is multiple-choice: you may cast a vote for each book that appeals to you. We will start the discussion thread for this book on July 20th. Select from the following Official Choices with three nominations each: • Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden No Links Provided Spoiler:
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot No Links Provided Spoiler:
• A Night to Remember by Walter Lord Amazon UK Spoiler:
• What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool Amazon UK / Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo / Sony Reader Store Spoiler:
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
• We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch No Links Provided Spoiler:
• Gulp by Mary Roach Amazon US / Google Play (ePub) / Kobo Spoiler:
• Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
• Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna Amazon US / Barnes & Noble / Kobo Spoiler:
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06-22-2013, 01:13 PM | #2 |
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There are so many good choices this month that it would be easier to vote for what I don't want to read.
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06-23-2013, 03:24 AM | #3 |
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I've always wanted to read The True Believer.
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06-23-2013, 11:52 AM | #4 |
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I've read it at least twice and had it queued for a re-read, which is why I nominated it. I'll bet it's the only book on the list written by a Longshoreman. Hoffer was a real working class hero who went on to win the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.
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06-23-2013, 09:17 PM | #5 |
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Of all the books in the list, I think Gulp will be the most enjoyable and the one to give us the most learning. Mary Roach has a way of writing that can make even death enjoyable to read about. She's just that good an author.
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06-23-2013, 11:16 PM | #6 |
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I'm sure it would indeed be a learning experience. Having tackled sex and death in earlier books, she now gets to the underbelly of all humanity, so to speak. She's a talented writer who knows how to make fascinating subjects even more so.
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06-24-2013, 04:37 AM | #7 |
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Though I find this (again) a good selection, I hope for Faust in Copenhagen or Fanny and Stella to 'win'. The first is important is understand one's own modern history I think, and I am just downright curious for Fanny and Stella's story.
I will read Escape from Camp 14, anyway, as I recently finished last month's MR-bookclub nomination about North Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orphan_Master's_Son I will not read the excellent nomination of Stories of Rwanda, as I saw a film about this genocide which made a huge impression on me. Heartbreaking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda |
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So far it looks as if "A night t0 remember" is doing very well.
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On your recommandation I'll give the book a chance. Thanks for your words about the book. |
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06-24-2013, 10:46 AM | #11 |
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But the sinking of the Titanic is a topic that's just gone round and round. Since the movie came out, the subject of the Titanic has been dealt with a lot. In fact, enough such that another go at it could very well be boring. Why risk it when we have a book in the list that is a more modern book (Gulp) written by an author who knows how to write and make the most uninteresting sounding subjects actually very interesting to read about?
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06-24-2013, 10:51 AM | #12 |
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I've noticed something about the book club. A lot of the nominations we seem to get are for old books. We don't get enough nominations for book written after WWII or about subjects that take place after WII. It would be nice to have more modern books or more modern time periods.
So for August, let's not have a single book nominated that's not written until at least after WWII and no books who's subjects do not take place until after WWII. I just don't get what's the fascination with the old stuff. |
06-24-2013, 11:39 AM | #13 | |
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On the other hand, new treatments of historical incidents, of which we have several from which to choose, I find endlessly interesting and illuminating. Just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean that it's not relevant today; again, several choices fall under this rubric. Don't get too excited, though--Gulp does nothing for me. |
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In the rewriting process, I would not be surprised to see in a few year somebody finding similarities between Mahatma Gandhi with the villain Osama. And all along the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Prussia, Britain and the rest were oh so naive, wishing all the best for the colonies and nothing for themselves... |
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06-24-2013, 01:01 PM | #15 |
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Next April 15th will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Granted, it's only my opinion, but with all the interesting books that have been nominated, I fail to see the fascination with yet another account of a story that's been done to death.
That does sound interesting. Of course, I would rather one of the books I nominated or seconded wins (The True Believer, What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew, or Gulp), but I would also be quite happy with that choice. |
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