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Which book should we read for September?

Albert Camus/the Plague
- 0 (0%)
Nick Cave/And the Ass Saw the Angel
- 0 (0%)
Leonard Cohen/Beautiful Losers
- 2 (13.3%)
Katherine Dunn/Geek Love
- 5 (33.3%)
Neil Gaiman/American Gods
- 4 (26.7%)
David Mitchell /Ghostwritten
- 2 (13.3%)
Chuck Palahniuk/Survivor
- 0 (0%)
Thomas Pynchon/Gravity's Rainbow
- 1 (6.7%)
Tom Robbins/Still Life with Woodpecker
- 0 (0%)
Salman Rushdie/The Satanic Verses
- 1 (6.7%)

Total Members Voted: 14

Voting closed: August 29, 2005, 02:53:28 pm


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« on: August 22, 2005, 02:53:28 pm »
In related author news, apparently Leonard Cohen is broke.

The local radio stations had a drive encouraging people to go buy Lenoard Cohen CD's.  (Even if "Beautiful Losers" is our next selection, I won't be throwing any money Lenny's way, I bought my copy years ago, but just haven't read it yet.  Then again, I would want to listen to some of his music while reading his book, so I suppose I could pick up a greatest hits type deal-y)

This poll will close in one week, so get your votes in!
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« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2005, 03:07:15 pm »
After V's hard lobbying for Geek Love last month, how can I vote any other way?
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« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2005, 03:24:52 pm »
Ah yes, Geek Love is the only book on the list which I have already read, twice in fact, but it's a great world to get into.  My SO, who reads about 2-3 books a year read it also just before we moved to our new house and enjoyed it.  The world of circus freaks is so interesting, and Dunn presents it so beatifully, humanly...
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« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2005, 08:41:03 pm »
I've read it twice and would gladly read it again (as opposed to Franny & Zooey, which the psychosis of August meant I never got around to; sorry). It's been a few years, and what a world.
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2005, 12:54:58 am »
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I've read it twice and would gladly read it again (as opposed to Franny & Zooey, which the psychosis of August meant I never got around to; sorry). It's been a few years, and what a world.


It would not have helped your psychosis.
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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2005, 09:45:26 pm »
Yes, and while Franny and Zooey has been mostly about a sibling getting out of hand with the praying, Geek Love... well I don't want to give anything away for those who've yet to read it, so lets just say its partially about a sibling whose "activities" get way, way out of hand.

It'll be an interesting compairson of the upper class/upper middle-class Glass family to the Benewski's (in Geek Love) who are a family who basically defies explaination, if we do go with this book next...

Anyways, as always I will not vote unless there's a need for a tie breaker, I basically want to read all the books listed above.  The poll closes tomorrow, so get your votes in now people!
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2005, 01:50:14 am »
And the winner is:  Geek Love, by Katherine Dunn.  Go get yer copies now!
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« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2005, 02:39:04 am »
Ooh, yay. Looking forward to having a reread of this and seeing how it holds up.
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« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2005, 06:13:44 am »
I've decided to be an anti-luddite and not buy books (well, not novels) anymore unless they're also available in eBook format so I can keep a copy with me in my PDA (even though I'll generally read from a paperback book rather than on my Palm).  I'm sick of publishers not putting out decent quality eBooks for common novels.

So no eBook, they can go to hell and DIE.
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« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2005, 06:16:37 am »
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I've decided to be an anti-luddite and not buy books (well, not novels) anymore unless they're also available in eBook format so I can keep a copy with me in my PDA (even though I'll generally read from a paperback book rather than on my Palm).  I'm sick of publishers not putting out decent quality eBooks for common novels.

So no eBook, they can go to hell and DIE.

... well... okay? I mean, whatever works for you, I guess. Your loss, in this case.
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« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2005, 06:31:43 am »
Also, what is it with publishers listing books as being "nominated" for a Pulitzer or National Book Award - there are no nominations for those awards.  You send your entry fee and two/five copies of the book, and you're entered into the competition.  If you're not from New York City, or at least not loved by those who are, then forget about winning.  But for fuck's sake, don't brag about being "nominated" for something that doesn't even really have nominations.  Yeah, you had $50 to enter.  That's quite a fuck*ng accomplishment.

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« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2005, 06:02:44 am »
haha oh man

i'm pretty sure at this point that chris onstad has based pat on jough
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« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2005, 09:20:07 pm »
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Also, what is it with publishers listing books as being "nominated" for a Pulitzer or National Book Award - there are no nominations for those awards.  You send your entry fee and two/five copies of the book, and you're entered into the competition.  If you're not from New York City, or at least not loved by those who are, then forget about winning.  But for fuck's sake, don't brag about being "nominated" for something that doesn't even really have nominations.  Yeah, you had $50 to enter.  That's quite a fuck*ng accomplishment.

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It was a finalist I think.
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« Reply #13 on: September 27, 2005, 05:47:15 pm »
So I'm not done yet, and might not be by the end of the month, as I have mad shit to do, but I'm really enjoying it.

What has everyone else thought?
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« Reply #14 on: September 27, 2005, 08:20:48 pm »
Seriously? I almost made the same post earlier today.

I'm really enjoying it, and will probably be finished by tomorrow night, if not sooner. I'm amazed and frightened for and by most all the characters. I love it.

Seeing as how it's so close to October, should we delay selection of the next book until just before November?
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