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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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02-22-2013, 07:19 PM | #31 |
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02-22-2013, 07:36 PM | #33 |
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Never heard of this book before this nomination, but now I'm on the waiting list at my library. Looks like it won't win, but I'm reading it regardless. I like to walk as much as I like to read and setting out on foot across England sounds wonderful to me.
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02-22-2013, 09:42 PM | #35 |
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I'd never heard of it either. My library has seven copies all checked out with 62 on the waiting list so it seems like it's fairly popular here. If I didn't have bills etc. to worry about it's totally a walk I'd like to take (although not for the reason Harold does).
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02-22-2013, 11:39 PM | #36 |
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20000 Leagues Under the Sea is also available over at feedbooks (free) in epub and Kindle formats.
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02-23-2013, 10:58 AM | #37 |
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I'm hoping the Bryson doesn't win, as it's the only one I've read. Anything else, please! I put a hold on spec on River of Doubt at the Boston Public Library and my turn's come up already, so I might read that in any case; I liked although I didn't love Millard's book about Garfield.
All of that said, my strong preference is for one of the books I voted for; I'm indifferent among them. They're in contention; let's go, Beijing/Antique Land/Tibet! |
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02-23-2013, 11:31 AM | #39 |
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02-23-2013, 12:26 PM | #40 |
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Aside for my preference for Endurance because of the fact that I have already read that, my only other wish is that the book just be travel/adventure. By that I mean, avoiding any book that is just as much about some sort of personal journey or quest to resolve issues in the narrator's life. Reading that sort of book does not really appeal to me. That and at the moment only In a Sunburned Country and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea seem to be readily available in ebook form to me for free.
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I am hoping Wild wins not because I nominated it, but because it does sound like an interesting book to read.
I'm not all that interested in Tibet or Patagonia. I'm not really wanting to read about Oz again. A walk across England just sounds dull to me. The new translation of Verne is not out yet. I don't care about Roosevelt. And the others meh. So there we have it. |
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Is that true? I just found the following on Amazon:
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