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two days to vote starting NOW *gunshot* This poll is closed. |
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| The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin |
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12 | 37.50% |
| Republic of Wine by Mo Yan |
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8 | 25.00% |
| Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter |
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2 | 6.25% |
| The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood |
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6 | 18.75% |
| The Giants by J.M. LeClezio |
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4 | 12.50% |
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The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuinquote:The Dispossessed takes place on twin planets: Urras, a lush world that supports a number of diverse nations, and Anarres, Urras' arid moon. Two centuries before the story begins, the followers of the anarchist philosopher Odo, seeking an alternative to the oppression and corruption of Urras, established a utopian society on Anarres. The Anarresti anarchists aren't the bomb-throwing, chaos-loving dissidents of popular imagination, but idealists who believe that most human ills grow from living under governments, and that the only just society is one based upon communal sharing, mutual tolerance, and voluntary cooperation. "To make a thief, make an owner," runs one Odonian aphorism; "to create crime, create laws." On Anarres there are no laws, no property, no governors, no nations, no money, no marriage, no police, no prisons. Even the language, deliberately created by the colony's first settlers, reflects anti-propertarian ideals: there are no possessive pronouns. https://www.sfsite.com/01b/dis73.htm https://twitter.com/jpbrammer/status/837377129071378433/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Republic of Wine by Mo Yan quote:Republic of Wine by Mo Yan - Mo Yan is a Chinese author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This one I have read and it is my favorite of his. Follows a few narrative threads including a detective story and fictional letters to Mo Yan by a fellow author and fan, but is largely about corruption and bureaucracy using food and drink a metaphors for greed and excess. I highly recommend it, it is a little heftier at 350 pages but is a page turner IMO so it shouldn't be hard to get through. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter quote:Nights at the Circus is a novel by Angela Carter, first published in 1984 and that year's winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel focuses on the life and exploits of Sophie Fevvers, a woman who is – or so she would have people believe – a Cockney virgin, hatched from an egg laid by unknown parents and ready to develop fully fledged wings. At the time of the story, she has become a celebrated aerialiste, and she captivates the young journalist Jack Walser, who runs away with the circus and falls into a world that his journalistic exploits had not prepared him to encounter. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood quote:The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is a work of speculative fiction[2] by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.[3][4] Set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, the dystopian novel explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which comprises a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.).[5] Now a Hulu Miniseries! The Giants by J.M. LeClezio A human heart posted:Because it's really cool and not many people read Le Clezio even though he got the nobel a few years back and it has sentences like this quote:It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.
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Mar 3, 2017 04:09
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selfish vote on Margaret Atwood. I have it in my shelf but haven't read it yet
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Mar 3, 2017 11:52
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Voting for LeGuin (have read some of her other stuff long ago but never this one, but always kinda wanted to), Mo Yan (which sounds intriguing) and Atwood (which I've read way back when it was new-ish, I am old).
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Mar 3, 2017 12:07
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What the heck apparently every possible copy of LeGuin is in use with a hold backup at my library. Hopefully one will become available by mid-month if it does win.
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Mar 3, 2017 16:33
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EDIT: On second thought, I'm changing my vote to LeGuin.
rngd in the womb fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Mar 4, 2017 |
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Mar 4, 2017 09:45
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Ok leguin won thread goes up tomorry
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Mar 5, 2017 04:25
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In a surprise twist the book forum posters chose to read a science fiction book.
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