Voting: November 2005 Book of the Month

[mehastings]

Poll will close October 27.

I've decided not to include The Sea this month. There is some question about its availability in North America at this time. Amazon has its release date as November 1. So, I'm going to put it forward for December. I hope that is OK with everyone!

I'm also rushing to get this poll out (as voting is only a week) so I'm not including the book descriptions. I will next month!

 

[ions]

May as well get the one vote in for Mercy Among the Children since I suggested it.

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

I voted for Fall On Your Knees because I've already read it and really enjoyed it, and it would nice to join into the discussion as it's happening rather than just bumping it later.

 

[Prairie_Girl]

what happens if that three way tie isnt broken before the pollcloses?

 

[mehastings]

I don't know. I'll ask Ell if it happened when she was doing BOTM.

 

[Ell]

There weren't any ties that I can recall. I have a feeling this won't end in a tie either. There are still five days left to vote and there are always people who wait til the last couple of days.

I've sent some suggestions to mehastings via pm on how a tie might be handled.

ell

 

[The Prussian]

"Dorian! Dorian!

Sis boom bam!

I've got the novel

in my hand!"

Thanks for indulging this horrid poet!

The Prussian

 

[StillILearn]

Lo li ta!

Where else will you learn things like this? The name Vivian Darkbloom is an anagram for Vladimir Nabokov.

Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.

Read more here:

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/lo_excerpt.html

and here:

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/amis.html

 

[Prairie_Girl]

I like that a full 1/3 of the authors nominated this month are queer. I'm happy with either Wilde OR Macdonald

 

[StillILearn]

You're too funny, Prairie Girl!

 

[Prairie_Girl]

thanks or too gay, depends on how you look at it.

 

[MonkeyCatcher]

I like that a full 1/3 of the authors nominated this month are queer. I'm happy with either Wilde OR Macdonald

Oh, I was unaware that Macdonald was gay. Thanks for the information, Prairie, I'll add that to my enormous cache of useless facts

 

[Prairie_Girl]

yep, her and her partner had a baby recently. She also played Frances, the prudish bookstore owner, in the lesbian cult classic Better Than Choclate.

 

[StillILearn]

Looks like I'd better get me a copy of TPODG.

 

[lilbiteb]

I managed to pick up a copy of TPODG today for pennies in a second hand shop so that's who I'm voting for this time. Also, the nice thing about it is that, even new, it's very affordable for those on a tight budget.

I also fancy reading Lolita, possibly next month, and I just loved Cloud Atlas.

 

[Scottishduffy]

Wow, something I nominated actually won.

I feel.... kinda special. I just finished this book so I am ready for the discussion!

 

[mehastings]

Poll is closed. Discussion of The Picture of Dorian Gray will start November 1.