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| The Little Red Chairs |
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3 | 10.34% |
| Wolf in White Van |
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4 | 13.79% |
| Pale Fire |
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10 | 34.48% |
| City of Glass |
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5 | 17.24% |
| Snow |
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7 | 24.14% |
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Sorry folks, I've been swamped so didn't have time to get a poll up. Vote quick! 1: The Little Red Chairs by Edna O'Brian quote:Beginning in a small, isolated Irish town, a charismatic mystic and healer arrives and mesmerises the people there with his spirituality and depth. We find out quite soon, though, that he is a wanted war criminal who has committed the most appalling atrocities in the Balkans. To say that he is a thinly disguised Radovan Karadzic would be to exaggerate the extent of the disguise, but by making him a fictional character in a community that she understands intimately, O'Brien can explore his character and the consequences of his actions through fictional events and she paints a brilliant, disturbing portrait of an egocentric, self-deluding psychopath. quote:Edna O’Brien’s boldly imagined and harrowing new novel, “The Little Red Chairs” — her 23rd work of fiction since “The Country Girls” (1960) — is both an exploration of those themes of Irish provincial life from the perspective of girls and women for which she has become acclaimed and a radical departure, a work of alternate history in which the devastation of a war-torn Central European country intrudes upon the “primal innocence, lost to most places in the world,” of rural Ireland. Here, in addition to O’Brien’s celebrated gifts of lyricism and mimetic precision, is a new, unsettling fabulist vision that suggests Kafka more than Joyce, as her portrait of the psychopath “warrior poet” Vladimir Dragan suggests Nabokov in his darker, less playful mode. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/books/review/the-little-red-chairs-by-edna-obrien.html 2: Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle quote:Wolf in White Van is the first novel by the American author and singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Wolf in White Van tells the story of Sean Phillips, a reclusive game designer whose face has been severely disfigured. One reviewer characterizes Sean as someone "steeped in video games, bad sci-fi movies, and Conan the Barbarian comic books".[1] The plot, which is told non-chronologically, alternates between Sean's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood to describe the circumstances surrounding the incident that disfigured him. A fictional play-by-mail role-playing game called Trace Italian figures prominently in the novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_White_Van 3: Pale Fire by Vladmir Nabokov quote:Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is presented as a 999-line poem titled "Pale Fire", written by the fictional John Shade, with a foreword and lengthy commentary by a neighbor and academic colleague of the poet, Charles Kinbote. Together these elements form a narrative in which both authors are central characters. 4: City of Glass by Paul Auster quote:The first story, City of Glass, features a detective-fiction writer become private investigator who descends into madness as he becomes embroiled in a case. It explores layers of identity and reality, from Paul Auster the writer of the novel to the unnamed "author" who reports the events as reality to "Paul Auster the writer", a character in the story, to "Paul Auster the detective", who may or may not exist in the novel, to Peter Stillman the younger, to Peter Stillman the elder and, finally, to Daniel Quinn, protagonist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Trilogy 5: Snow by Orhan Pamuk quote:Snow (Turkish: Kar) is a novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk. Published in Turkish in 2002, it was translated into English by Maureen Freely and published in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters. As always, please only vote if you plan on participating if the book you vote for is selected -- this is primarily an interest check. You can vote for more than one title.
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Aug 1, 2016 11:03
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I endorse all of these books except for Wolf in White Van god bless
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Aug 1, 2016 13:29
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I;ll read snow if it wins
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Aug 1, 2016 13:53
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The first one irks me because Dragan is always used as a first name and I've never heard of anyone with Dragan as a last name. A bit like naming your American character in a novel Jack John or Robert Jeff.
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Aug 1, 2016 14:28
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I think this is the best lineup I have seen in the BOTM. I will be joining for the first time ever after voting for many failed options!
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Aug 1, 2016 15:19
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I agree with BS. The only one I won't read is Snow, but because I'm already reading Pamuk.
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Aug 1, 2016 15:32
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yea, I'll probably read whichever book is chosen. Snow and City of Glass get my vote though, because I already have them on my shelves
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Aug 1, 2016 15:41
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Snow cuz it's on my shelf.
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Aug 1, 2016 16:04
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Snow cuz it's on my shelf. Take your shelf inside idiot
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Aug 1, 2016 16:08
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My vote goes to City of Glass or Pale Fire.
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Aug 1, 2016 16:38
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Mover posted:My vote goes to City of Glass or Pale Fire. Let's combine the two and read City on Fire
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Aug 1, 2016 16:40
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I've cast my vote, I'm up for anything.
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Aug 1, 2016 21:04
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Little red chairs or ple fire
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Aug 1, 2016 22:29
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Why read the WORST book in the New York Trilogy? 
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Aug 2, 2016 04:48
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I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane I was the smudge of ashen fluff--and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky Vote Pale Fire
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Aug 2, 2016 05:45
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Pale Fire it is, then?
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Aug 2, 2016 15:33
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blue squares posted:Pale Fire it is, then? yup it'll be Pale Fire I'll get a thread up in a day or two, I want to do it justice. It's been suggested more than once over the past few years for BOTM but I didn't think the forum was ready for it yet.
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Aug 3, 2016 04:28
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is it easily readable on kindle, or does it expect a lot of leafing back and forth and stuff?
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Aug 3, 2016 07:33
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Burning Rain posted:is it easily readable on kindle, or does it expect a lot of leafing back and forth and stuff? It's hypertext linked, so even easier. At least the edition I read a few years ago was.
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Aug 3, 2016 07:57
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Well fine, I actually had this sitting unread on my Kindle already.
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Aug 3, 2016 08:26
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Burning Rain posted:is it easily readable on kindle, or does it expect a lot of leafing back and forth and stuff? the text implies that you'd be leafing back and forth, but it isn't a sincere suggestion
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Aug 3, 2016 09:41
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Bought myself a nice wittle paperback today, supporting local business
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Aug 3, 2016 11:27
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