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Actually I would prefer a democratic vote, now that we are setting up for one.

1) Well, Polly, here's one: Light Years by James Salter. And here is the description from Amazon: "This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life...

Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Gulag Archipelago , and others, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dreams of my Russian Summers by Andrei Makine Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Plus I still see mentions of the multi-volume sets: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell, and A Dance to the Music of...

Welcome back. No theme, eh? Thimking, thimking. From me, prolly modern, general interest, and controversial.

I'll be there, come April. Should be able to find it on the shelf and reread it by then.

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I'm not sure we are any closer to an answer to the question, but I'll add another book to the list The Intercept by Dick Simon It is certainly a "now" book, being about the search for a terrorist loose in NYC bent on producing a greater impact than 9-11, and written by the writer/producer for...

My sincerest apologies to OP if I was not relevant. I don't click on links either.

Clearly you know a lot more than I do. I defer.

Roxbrough, I was especially thinking of Ian Kershaw and Richard J. Evans. although (many) other authors have also written, including William Manchester, John Toland, Alan Bullock and Werner Maser. I am disagreeing with you. I feel calling insane and depraved political or military leaders...

Just an added comment re scholarship on the subject. Shirer's was one of the earliest books on the subject, if not in fact the earliest. Since then there have been many new books by serious historians making use of more detailed information that has come available in the years since Shirer's...

I too have been around for quite a while and have seen the ups and downs of the BOTM. I would definitely not criticize Meadow for trying in various innovative ways to rejuvenate the monthly discussions. She has tried more than anyone has done in a long time to improve the situation. I would...

Wait a minute. I have to think about that.

Here is a Google link that answers your question, probably longer than you wanted. http://www.poetry.org/whatis.htm I like the beginning of a different link also http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm It begins by saying that there are as many different definitions as poets...

Gita: Great analysis! Re Poe: Sorry but not for me; mistreating the livestock barely readable, but maiming Pluto tore it. So 'til next month, . . . Cheers or shudders.

Well some books are clearly "then" classics, not "now" classics. :D I only know "now," not "then." I am not bi-classic. :rolleyes:

My e-reader hs to be comfortable to hold when reading. My nice crispy hardbacks come with nice spines, but the bottom of the spine (the foot?), where it rests on my finger when I'm holding the book, is sharp. It would be nice if after 500 years of bookbinding, the binders could round that to...

Bonfire of the Vanities I think not. It sounds dated, for exactly the reason that it was closely a product of its time. Remains of the Day I have not read, so no comment. Just a question: If a book speaks to current times because it transcends its own time, is it a modern novel for purposes of...

Yes indeed! Google is our good ol' friend, and we should not have to reinvent the wheel. Hence my suggestion to try to start with now. Is anyone reading about "now"? And will it last 50 years, let's say? (And if we can't tell whether a book is written in now, with now people, and now...

[Overlapping Meadows previous post] Picking up the thought from the link, of "modern" meaning the times we live in, perhaps we could get the ball rolling with trying to think of how we would characterize our times without the novel seeming "old-fashioned" or talking about "times gone by". Are...