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| 1)Village Evenings Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol |
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4 | 20.00% |
| 2) Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan |
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7 | 35.00% |
| 3) Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell |
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2 | 10.00% |
| 4) Blood Spatters Quickly by Edward D. Wood Jr. (yes that Ed Wood) |
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3 | 15.00% |
| 5) History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Lissagaray |
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4 | 20.00% |
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Help us pick the March 2022 Book of the Month! Vote for as many options as you think you might read. If you have another suggestion, list it in a comment with a note explaining why it's a better pick. If you do vote, please consider participating and reading along. Poll will stay up for three days. 1)Village Evenings Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol quote:This was Gogol's groundbreaking work, though not his first, and formed the core of his style, especially his sense of the macabre. It was this collection that proved he was a new power in Russian literature with unique innovation and a carefully arranged mingling of the horrifying and the humorous. Alexander Pushkin had a heavy influence on the writing of the collection, which features references to Ukraine, where Gogol spent the early years of his life. The stories are heavily laced with Ukrainian folklore and cultural references, offering a unique perspective into life in the country during Gogol's time period. The structure found in this collection became characteristic of Gogol's writing later on, found in works such as Dead Souls. "Evenings" gained Gogol the fame that would lead him to a prominent placement in the Russian literary circle, as well as opening the doors for future works. 2) Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan quote:In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead. Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit grotesque adventure. 3) Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell quote:Ring of Bright Water is a book by Gavin Maxwell about his life in a remote house in coastal Scotland where he kept several wild otters as pets.[1][2] First published in 1960, it became a best seller and is considered a literary masterpiece,[3] eventually selling over two million copies.[4] A fictionalised film of the same name was made from it[4] and released in 1969.[3] 4) Blood Spatters Quickly by Edward D. Wood Jr. (yes that Ed Wood) quote:Best known as the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space and other cinema schlock, Wood published the 33 stories collected in this volume as filler for magazines of erotica and pornography between 1970 and 1974. None rise above the mediocrity of his moviemaking, but you wouldn't expect them to since, as Bob Blackburn writes in his introduction, Wood ground them out in desperation to put food on the table. At their best, these short tales are an index to the type of pulp fiction common to men's magazines of the era: war stories, jungle adventures, crime fiction, and horror extravaganzas usually saturated with bloody violence and heated with steamy sex. "Scream Your Bloody Head Off" follows a man going through the paces of dismembering his murdered wife's corpse and grinding it through the kitchen sink garbage disposal. "Dracula Revisited" speaks for all the book's tales of horror, its protagonist fearing "a scene which promises to be so terrifyingly heart-stopping that I might be overcome with the horror of the sight and my mind would be crushed to a point whereby my sanity could be taken from me." The tone of the selections ranges from the camp of "Missionary [Position] Impossible," in which missionaries find a "white queen" heading up a jungle tribe, to the grotesquerie of "The Gory Details" and the sexual explicitness of "The Autograph," one of several tales with a gay sex theme. Fans of Wood's work will appreciate repeat references to angora throughout the collection. 5) History of the Paris Commune by Prosper Lissagaray quote:The Paris Commune was a pivotal event in the history of socialist thought. It had such a profound effect on Karl Marx that he amended a portion of his "Communist Manifesto" in response to it. "History of the Paris Commune" is an eyewitness account of the Commune, written in its immediate aftermath by a French worker who participated in the events he describes.
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Depeche Mode wins. I'll get a thread up within a day or three.
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Mar 2, 2022 04:13
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