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Emaline:

--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 25 Mar 2010, 14:14 ---I want to nominate Gravity's Rainbow just because I've always wanted to challenge and infuriate myself by trying to read it, but can never actually bring myself to buy it or check it out from the library.

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I'm down with this next time voting comes around. I actually came to this thread to recommend some Pynchon.

yellowfoliage:
Please don't give me a reason to try Pynchon again. Against the Day made my brain hurt.

20 jazz funk greats:
i have no idea who this joseph fella is but i may wanna borrow a book or two from him.

people who quote cat's cradle at each other are just way too cute sometimes. ha.

20 jazz funk greats:
also i am too cute for my own good and shorten people's names so they end in y more often than not.

hi joey, didn't we talk when i was still in high school. maybe? you were you and being all adorably geeky. i was being a typical overachiever type lady with a thing for older and smarter boys.

Sox:

--- Quote from: Inlander on 25 Mar 2010, 15:23 ---Okay then! As I suspected the final slot went down pretty quickly after I went to bed. That means that NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

As you'll see, I've added a poll up the top so you can vote on which of the finalists you want to read. The poll closes in two days, which ought to be enough time for everyone who's interested to vote (given how quickly the nomination process went) and then go out and get a copy of the "winning" book befor the 1st of April. (I figure we may as well try doing this monthly, I think that gives everyone enough time to read a book and then discuss it for a while - let me know if you disagree.)

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A month is a LONG time. Especially in the age of the internet when a lot of books are available for download. For free, even, if you want to go that route. It's also long enough for people to lose interest. Acquiring books is easy for anybody who's interested, everybody involved is guaranteed to already have the internet, otherwise they wouldn't be here. It shouldn't really take anybody more than a week to actually read a book, surely?
Am I wrong? Am I unrealistic? Two hours a day, everyday for a week, that's more than enough time to surely finish any book?
Of course, I know that IS an unrealistic expectation, given that a lot of people would struggle to find a few hours every single day. People who'd much rather hang out with friends or go for a drink and have jobs and relationships and real lives. Losers.
With a month, you have a situation where a lot of people who've already read the book are waiting for everybody else to finish. They're itching to read the next book and discuss that, but it's still three weeks away. Because those other people have lives, or are slow readers or something. Not an ideal situation.

My suggestion, is every two weeks. Even though I think that's still too generous.

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