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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% |
| Total: | 28 votes | ||
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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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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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goddammit poll should be open through today now
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Oct 31, 2017 21:01
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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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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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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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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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