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| The Vegetarian by Han Kang |
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15 | 40.54% |
| The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin |
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| Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees |
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11 | 29.73% |
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As always this is an interest check more than a strict contest. You can vote for more than one option, but please only vote if you plan on participating if that book is selected. Our modern literary pick: The Vegetarian by Han Kang quote:
quote:Han Kang (Hangul: 한강; born November 27, 1970) is a South Korean writer.[1] She won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2016 for The Vegetarian, a novel which deals with a woman’s decision to stop eating meat and its devastating consequences.[2] The novel is also the first of her books to be translated into English. Modern SF pick: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin quote:
quote:In N. K. Jemisin's new novel, The Fifth Season, the payoff is astounding. Sure, there's a whopping glossary at the end of the book — two of them, actually — but that simply underscores how much sumptuous detail and dimensionality she's packed into her premise. The story takes place in a land called the Stillness, a tragically ironic name, seeing as how the geography is in constant, violent flux. The entire world undergoes apocalypses on a periodic basis, as regular as weather patterns. In the fractured landscape that houses the sprawling city of Yumenes, that instability has given civilization an equally volatile reality. A caste system scars it. Science and magic have uneasily mixed. And Essun is a small-town schoolteacher whose family has been brutally ripped apart from within. http://www.npr.org/2015/08/04/427825372/fifth-season-embraces-the-scale-and-complexity-of-fantasy quote:During her delivery of the Guest of Honour speech at the 2013 Continuum in Australia, Jemisin complained that 10% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA) membership voted for conservative writer Theodore Beale (also known as Vox Day) in his bid for the SFWA presidential position. She went on to call Beale "racist, misogynistic, and hateful" and noted that silence about these issues was the same as enabling. Beale responded by calling her an "educated but ignorant savage."[6] A link to his comments was tweeted on the SFWA Authors Twitter feed, and Beale was subsequently expelled from the organization. Our This Book is Free pick: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees quote:Lud-in-the-Mist is an unusual fantasy first published in 1926, before The Hobbit and considerably before the existence of fantasy as a marketing genre. It would be recognised as one of the founding works of the genre except for the way it has rarely been noticed and seldom reprinted. It’s a book that is itself in the tradition of Rossetti’s Goblin Market (1862) and Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924). It’s very clearly an influence on Susannah Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and the work of Greer Gilman, so perhaps it has contributed to a particular strand of fantasy, a particular way of approaching the numinous. http://www.tor.com/2010/10/06/next-door-to-fairyland-hope-mirrlees-lud-in-the-mist/ quote:Virginia Woolf, however, found her exasperating. In her diaries, she called Mirrlees "a very self conscious, wilful, prickly & perverse young woman, rather conspicuously well dressed & pretty, with a view of her own about books & style, an aristocratic & conservative tendency in opinion, & a corresponding taste for the beautiful & elaborate in literature." She invited Hope over for the weekend, and was appalled to discover that she not only changed her dress every night for dinner, but wore powder and scent in profusion and a wreath in her hair that matched the color of her stockings and every night, a different color of stockings. She was, Woolf concluded bemusedly, "rather an exquisite apparition." http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/introduces/mirrlees.htm Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 25, 2016 |
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May 25, 2016 13:56
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I feel like I didn't do a good enough job talking up Lud-in-the-Mist. It's a genuinely brilliant book.
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May 26, 2016 17:49
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Old books suck and its free because its trash dropping truth on you like bombs on an afghani village
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May 26, 2016 17:56
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Lud in the Mist is on my list b/c of this post, but I was gonna read the Fifth Season by Jemisin next anyway, so that's where my head's at.
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May 26, 2016 20:03
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I meant to put a chuck Tingle book in the poll but forgot Oh well, next month
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May 26, 2016 20:08
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I meant to put a chuck Tingle book in the poll but forgot Shameful
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May 26, 2016 20:10
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Was there anyone who didn't annoy Virginia Woolf? My vote's for The Vegetarian.
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May 27, 2016 12:12
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Was there anyone who didn't annoy Virginia Woolf? Only those who were afraid of her.
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May 27, 2016 13:39
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I'm a bit late to the party, but maybe these things would work better if you tried nominating widely known nerdy novels that we all mistakenly think everyone's read already. What I mean is, why not do a Neal Stephenson book, or something from the Charles Stross' Laundry series, Mieville's Embassytown or Scar, old Asimov or Clarke, Vernor Vinge, Ursula K... I'm guessing that type of BOTM club could draw lots of people people that may recognize the title and meant to read it anyaway. Plus, I think fans would be interested in a reread.
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May 27, 2016 16:52
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mcustic posted:I'm a bit late to the party, but maybe these things would work better if you tried nominating widely known nerdy novels that we all mistakenly think everyone's read already. What I mean is, why not do a Neal Stephenson book, or something from the Charles Stross' Laundry series, Mieville's Embassytown or Scar, old Asimov or Clarke, Vernor Vinge, Ursula K... I'm guessing that type of BOTM club could draw lots of people people that may recognize the title and meant to read it anyaway. Plus, I think fans would be interested in a reread. Well, two of the three nominations this month are fantasy, and one is a current Hugo nominee, which is pretty mainstream. Past that, generally most of the books you mention are already actively discussed in other threads on the subforum and often have ongoing discussion. Vinge is often discussed in the space opera thread, for example, and if you search the forum for LeGuin you'll find hundreds of mentions, same for Mieville. Historically this forum has had a problem of being filled with pop SF & F and not much else, so the BotM is one way to help folks who might want to expand their reading a bit. (This month, for example, all the nominations are female authors, who with the exception of Leguin and Cherryh tend to get ignored here). If I go too far though historically people don't participate, though, so it's always a matter of walking a line (which is something the poll helps me navigate). The big issue is always getting goons to read anything at all though so if people want more mainstream selections, nominate them next month and vote for them. I can point out some possible directions but ultimately I can't take the forum anywhere the posters don't want it to go. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 27, 2016 |
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May 27, 2016 17:14
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I read The Vegetarian recently, and it's been my book of the year so far, so I'm all for it. It's a very short book of three intertwined novellas that tell a whole story about a young woman in South Korea stepping outside of the boundaries of her society, with people around her having to make a decision if they want to follow her or not. It gets pretty weird and disturbing, in the best possible way. It's a quick read and there'd be plenty to discuss, so yeah.
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May 28, 2016 07:30
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I've got a question - you say Lud-in-the-mist is free and it intrigues me a lot but I can't seem to find it for download; could you provide a link?
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May 28, 2016 19:22
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I am new so I am hoping responding to this thread is the correct way to vote. Let's do L-i-t-M! They all sound good but I am especially interested in pre Tolkien fantasy.
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May 28, 2016 22:32
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VioletCorsica posted:I am new so I am hoping responding to this thread is the correct way to vote. Let's do L-i-t-M! They all sound good but I am especially interested in pre Tolkien fantasy. The correct way to vote is by clicking on the poll up there )not available via the app). Welcome to the Barn.
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May 28, 2016 23:23
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Aha! I am on the app. Thank you for the help and welcome!
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May 29, 2016 03:59
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anilEhilated posted:I've got a question - you say Lud-in-the-mist is free and it intrigues me a lot but I can't seem to find it for download; could you provide a link? http://www.eithin.com/texts/Lud-in-the-Mist.pdf mcustic posted:The correct way to vote is by clicking on the poll up there )not available via the app). Welcome to the Barn. Welcome! Only votes in the poll will count unfortunately because it's too complicated to count otherwise. But you can vote for more than one, and if runner-ups do well enough I often renominate them in subsequent months.
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May 29, 2016 04:48
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I swear to god if some hundred year old fairy bullshit wins I am gonna... well gently caress probably grumble quietly about it and not post in the book club thread I guess?
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May 29, 2016 05:21
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Thank you; looking forward to reading me some hundred year old fairy bullshit.
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May 29, 2016 09:05
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I came in here expecting to vote for the Jemisin because I've been meaning to read it for the Hugos, but now I want to read all three.
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May 30, 2016 03:02
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Vote right, vote Vegetarian.
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May 30, 2016 07:48
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Victory for vegetables! thread will go up in a day or two
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May 31, 2016 00:10
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Oh I messed up a bit here: that's an image based PDF, which is harder to read. I'm having a harder time finding a version in mobi or epub format, or rather finding one I'm comfortable sharing here. The book is definitely out of copyright though. Even modern reprint editions are based on a reprint edition that didn't bother to even notify the author of publication.
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Jun 1, 2016 15:46
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Captain Hotbutt posted:Was there anyone who didn't annoy Virginia Woolf? Her father, but literally only that one person on the planet
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Jun 1, 2016 17:39
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poisonpill posted:Her father, but literally only that one person on the planet No no, he annoyed her too. She wrote half a book about him annoying her!
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh I messed up a bit here: that's an image based PDF, which is harder to read. I'm having a harder time finding a version in mobi or epub format, or rather finding one I'm comfortable sharing here. I gotcha covered! I made my own EPUB some time ago and have painstakingly prettified and corrected it. Now, if you want to return the favor, you can find me a recording of the actual tune to "Columbine", which is apparently a real song.
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Jun 3, 2016 16:05
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Lud-in-the-mist, please
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Jun 7, 2016 18:26
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BattyKiara posted:Lud-in-the-mist, please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S94ohyErSw
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Rand Brittain posted:I gotcha covered! I made my own EPUB some time ago and have painstakingly prettified and corrected it.
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BattyKiara posted:Lud-in-the-mist, please Lud will almost certainly be featured in an upcoming month, especially now that there is a good eBook edition. These polls are basically an interest check and there's definitely enough interest in it. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jun 8, 2016 |
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