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| Aquarium |
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8 | 21.05% |
| Wolf in White Van |
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8 | 21.05% |
| The Buried Giant |
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7 | 18.42% |
| Solaris |
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8 | 21.05% |
| Man's Search for Meaning |
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7 | 18.42% |
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You should be able to vote for more than one book, but if you vote and a book you voted for is selected, please participate in the thread when we read it. Thanks! 1) Aquarium by David Vann quote:David Vann’s new novel, “Aquarium,” about a lonely young girl who meets an old man at the Seattle Aquarium, begins on a deceptively light note. Its cinematic quality is due largely to a series of lovely, well-curated fish photographs that accompany 12-year-old Caitlin’s observation of the exotic fauna. But the momentary lightness of these early pages soon unspools into psychological darkness — and the intricate, colorful pictures diminish — as Caitlin moves away from the tranquillity and beauty of the aquarium and into the more dangerous spaces of a world populated by humans. 2) Wolf in White Vann 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. 3) The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro quote:Kazuo Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist, both for the quality of his work — because his novels share a careful, precise approach to language and to character — and because he does not ever write the same novel, or even the same type of novel, twice. In “The Buried Giant,” his seventh and latest, he begins with clear, unhurried, unfussy language to describe the England of some 1,500 years ago, in a novel as well crafted as it is odd. Some of the oddness comes from the medieval terrain: This is a novel about an elderly couple going from one village to the next, set in a semi-historical England of the sixth or perhaps seventh century, in which the Britons and the Saxons have been at bloody war. The Britons have been driven west and the Saxons control the east of England, but Saxons and Britons live side by side in a post-Arthurian twilight, in a mythical time of ogres, sprites and dragons — most of all the dragon Querig, who dominates the second half of the book, in which one character needs to kill her as badly as another needs to keep her alive. Other oddities come from the characters, many of whom navigate their way through the story as if asleep and uncertain whether they will like what they find if they wake up. 4) Solaris by Stanislaw Lem quote:Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. The book centers upon the themes of the nature of human memory, experience and the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. 5) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl quote:Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positively about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. According to Frankl, the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. The book intends to answer the question "How was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner?" Part One constitutes Frankl's analysis of his experiences in the concentration camps, while Part Two introduces his ideas of meaning and his theory called logotherapy. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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Oct 26, 2017 13:55
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Man, I missed my chance to nominate. If we're going to read Solaris, I believe the ebook has a new translation from the Polish, while print books all have the old Polish>French>English translation.
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Oct 27, 2017 06:10
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what you guys just like all of them? Pick one someone has a preference
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Oct 30, 2017 21:13
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Yikes, Aquarium is actually a book I really, really want to read while Solaris is one of those books that I feel guilty for never having read. What to choose, what to choose...
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Oct 31, 2017 08:10
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goddammit poll should be open through today now
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Oct 31, 2017 21:01
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So how about a BOTM where we have to read all of the books 
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Oct 31, 2017 21:11
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just so long as its not aquarium because i voted for that but won't have time to read it
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Oct 31, 2017 21:30
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Peel posted:just so long as its not aquarium because i voted for that but won't have time to read it I am an incredibly slow reader and finished it in two sittings.
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Oct 31, 2017 22:34
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Can two people vote for Solaris please e: Thank you someone Safety Biscuits fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Nov 1, 2017 |
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Nov 1, 2017 04:01
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Peel posted:just so long as its not aquarium because i voted for that but won't have time to read it it is barely 250 pages long e: lol it's gone from a three way tie to a four way tie. good work everyone
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Nov 1, 2017 04:46
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Safety Biscuits posted:Can two people vote for Solaris please YOU'RE NOT EVEN MY REAL DAD (just voted for it)
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Nov 1, 2017 09:02
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guess we're reading all these books this month
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Nov 1, 2017 09:19
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well gosh i suppose i can squeeze aquarium in if it comes to it
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Nov 1, 2017 10:53
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Does no one want to read about Man's Search for Meaning? It's really good!
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Nov 1, 2017 11:04
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I hate all of you now *I* have to make a decision dammit
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Nov 1, 2017 22:48
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you know in your heart what the right choice is, alloy
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Nov 2, 2017 01:20
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I hate all of you What you should do is do each book for the next four months so we're all happy
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Nov 2, 2017 01:21
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StrixNebulosa posted:What you should do is do each book for the next four months so we're all happy its back to being only a three way tie now. it's just a different three way tie than it was like two days ago
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Nov 2, 2017 01:22
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chernobyl kinsman posted:its back to being only a three way tie now. it's just a different three way tie than it was like two days ago I'm on mobile so I can't see the poll Which one lost, pick that one
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Nov 2, 2017 01:23
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm on mobile so I can't see the poll
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Nov 2, 2017 01:51
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hooked on Fauxnics posted:It's also a tie for who lost 
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Nov 2, 2017 01:57
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Choose Solaris, then do the other four next month.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:19
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Let's just do a double feature, Solaris and Aquarium. I'll stop reading The Expanse series (which is quite good, I might add) and do both of 'em. Come on, you know you wanna. Hell, toss in Wolf in White Van, too. Those are the three tied right now, and if you add up all of their page counts it's still less than Blackwater. USMC_Karl fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Nov 2, 2017 03:12
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Ok, I'm gonna call it AQUARIUM because the people pushing it have been really vocal for a long time and if I pick something else I suspect they'll never shut up about it
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Nov 2, 2017 10:08
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that's the spirit
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Nov 2, 2017 14:19
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, I'm gonna call it AQUARIUM because the people pushing it have been really vocal for a long time and if I pick something else I suspect they'll never shut up about it I think I have clearly established I am more the passive aggressive type thank you very much
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Nov 2, 2017 14:51
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Ok, I'm gonna call it AQUARIUM because the people pushing it have been really vocal for a long time and if I pick something else I suspect they'll never shut up about it Very good book -- I read it earlier this year, so won't be rereading it just yet.
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Nov 2, 2017 19:09
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:what you guys just like all of them? Pick one Voted checkmark
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Nov 3, 2017 04:05
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dante's inferno would be a good one for next month, imo
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Nov 3, 2017 17:39
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chernobyl kinsman posted:dante's inferno would be a good one for next month, imo
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Nov 3, 2017 18:27
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anilEhilated posted:Tie-in book for a videogame? Shame on you. I think he means the anime, but there's a different forum for that.
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Nov 3, 2017 19:13
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Started reading The Aquarium in anticipation of the BoTM thread and... hoo boy. I like fun reads and this book is not that. Not to say that the book isn't good, I can't put it down, but man I just feel low grade tension throughout the entire story thus far.
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Nov 6, 2017 00:31
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USMC_Karl posted:Started reading The Aquarium USMC_Karl posted:I like fun reads lol
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Nov 6, 2017 00:55
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Yeah, I usually do my reading either in the morning or the evening after everything is done. Light and fun is usually what I like best, but this book is good.
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Nov 6, 2017 00:58
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Yeah sorry I've been slack in getting the thread up. It'll happen ASAP.
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Nov 6, 2017 06:10
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Just picked up Aquarium so I'll get into it after work today. Lookin' forward to the not-fun book
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Nov 6, 2017 07:00
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Mahlertov Cocktail posted:Just picked up Aquarium so I'll get into it after work today. Lookin' forward to the not-fun book Dehumanize yourself and face to emotional pain and suffering.
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