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Free Falling • February 2019
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The topic is Free Falling. It could be: A fall into or out of a relationship. A fall into personal despair (economic, depression,...). A novel (or maybe non-fiction) framed within a stock market, business or economic crash. Science fiction with an anti-gravity thread. A novel involving sky-divers. A free falling journey. etc. Also a few clues in this video Detailed nominating and voting guidelines can be found here. Basically, nominations are open for about four days and each person may nominate up to three literary selections which will go automatically to the vote. Voting by post then opens for four days, and a voter may give each nomination either one or two votes but only has a limited number of votes to use which is equal to the number of nominations minus one. Any questions, feel free to ask. We hope that you will read the selection with us and join in the discussion. * Nominations are complete. Initial voting is complete. Run-off voting is complete. Final results-
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The first nomination concerns the fall of the classical antiquity and the olympian worship, and a hopeless attempt to rescue it from the fall under a from Christianity to Paganism re-converted emperor Julian the Apostate. A wonderful and insightful Russian novel.
The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate by Dmitry Merezhkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Gods Last edited by Spinnenmonat; 02-01-2019 at 04:31 AM. |
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The second nomination touches on the theme of the fall of the church authority on the astronomy. That is the story of Galileo Galilei, told in a German theater.
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The third nomination concerns a kind of pyschological "fall" or a certain "fall" of a personality. So I also recommend a English theater.
Equus by Peter Shaffer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(play) |
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I haven't decided on what I want to nominate yet, but I just noticed and want to point out that I love the full alliteration with topic title and month.
Also, interesting nominations, Spinnenmonat! |
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Some time back I did a search of lists of the type "Best 100 Novels of the 20th Century" looking for additions to my "To Read" list. These three I have not read so, for me, their only known merit is that they appeared in such lists .
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler, approx. 200 ADE pages. The breaking of a man tried for treason in a dictatorship he helped create, through to the making of his false confession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_Noon A Bend in the River, V. S Naipaul, approx. 260 ADE pages. The attempt and failure of the character establishing himself in the darkness of a post colonial African country fallen into endemic dislocation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bend_in_the_River Appointment in Samarra, John O'Hara, approx. 190 ADE pages. A story of a man's self destruction over the course of three days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointment_in_Samarra Last edited by AnotherCat; 02-01-2019 at 10:28 PM. |
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Great nominations so far! I think this subject is very interesting and has great potential. I’m looking forward to exploring this topic over the weekend to pick some nominations.
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My first nomination is Prisoner by Jason Rezaian. It's a brand new memoir of a journalist who is almost more interested in food and travel (he was good friends with Anthony Bourdain) but who gets imprisoned in Iran for a year and a half on suspicion of spying for the U.S. (and his wife was separately jailed there for some months too). I've already read an excerpt from the book in a Washington Post article and was captivated. I thought of it for the topic because he suffered a sudden fall from freedom to imprisonment. Goodreads 320 pages, 2019, United States & Iran
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This book is already very close to the top of my "to read" list. I have only had a quick scan of it so far but it does indeed look very interesting.
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My first nomination is Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig. He is an award-winning author of fiction for adults and children. I did not know that he had written this deeply personal memoir about his experience falling into depression.
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My second nomination is Still Alice by Lisa Genova. The premise of this book is haunting to me, a fictional account of a mother and professor's descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease.
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My third nomination is a classic, Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates published in 1975. It is about the collapse of a man's outwardly perfect life and his struggle with alcoholism and mental illness.
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My next nomination is Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon. I could have sworn this had been nominated at some point in the past but apparently it never has. It fits the topic because Monsieur Monde is on a sort of free fall, abandoning his average, successful life and wife in Paris to disappear to the Riviera and hang out with drunks, prostitutes and thieves. Goodreads 160 pages, 1945, France
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My final nomination is something I've nominated before- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. I want to nominate it again because it did well when it was nominated in the lit club (it went to a tie-breaker), because there was a new mini-series adaptation of it in 2018 that could be a point of interest, and because I liked the idea of 'free falling' for this book what with the mysterious disappearances amongst other things. Gooreads 202 pages, 1967, Australia
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