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created October 14th
poll #1
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Would you consider becoming a vampire?
Immortality, hell yes!
Not a chance, I hate when Denise talks about blood stew.
Meh, if nothing else is going on this weekend then sure.
It depends: Shimmery vampire or bad-ass vampire?
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created October 8th
poll #2
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Vote for the book for October! Looks like we are getting ready for Halloween around here...
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created September 2nd
poll #3
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Vote for the September book! Three of these books were suggested but I wanted to throw in another pretty popular book at the moment. :)
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created July 17th
poll #4
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Vote for the next book! We'll only be shooting for one book this month since two seems to be a little bit ambitious.
I wrote in the genres of the books instead of the summaries I've usually done because... well, because I'm lazy.
I wrote in the genres of the books instead of the summaries I've usually done because... well, because I'm lazy.
Duma Key - fiction (?)
Storm Front - fantasy/sci fi
Retribution Falls Tales of the Ketty Jay - sci-fi/fantasy
Hannibal - suspense
The Innocent Man Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - nonfiction, law, crime
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created June 24th
poll #5
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Hey gang, do we need a couple more weeks for this month's books? Although I have finished Neverwhere, I just found a copy of Vurt and between having to move and working, there's now way I can finish it by next week. Ideas? I think just a couple more weeks should suffice, say till the 15th of July.
Yes - Extend two more weeks
Yes - Extend another month
No - Stop being lazy and read already!
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created June 1st
poll #6
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6th (and 7th?) book. Vote vote vote!
*I added books from last month's poll that had more than 1 vote.
*I added books from last month's poll that had more than 1 vote.
The Catcher in the Rye - 288 pages - Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. His constant wry observations about what he encounters capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.
Coraline - 192 pages - When a girl moves into an old house, she finds a door leading to a world that eerily mimics her own, but with sinister differences.
The City & the City - 416 pages - With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
The Graveyard Book - 312 pages - Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard, raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens.
Vurt - 342 pages – A cyberpunk novel with a difference, a rollicking, dark, yet humorous examination of a future in which the boundaries between reality and virtual reality are as tenuous as the brush of a feather.
Neverwhere A Novel - 370 pages - Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed.
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created April 30th
poll #7
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Rockin' some cyberpunk!
Fourth (and Fifth?) Book! If the votes swing towards smaller books (300 pages or less) then we can shoot for a second book halfway through the month, whatever gets the 2nd highest vote.
**EDIT** I linked the wrong book for "Book Thief" and have now corrected it**
Fourth (and Fifth?) Book! If the votes swing towards smaller books (300 pages or less) then we can shoot for a second book halfway through the month, whatever gets the 2nd highest vote.
**EDIT** I linked the wrong book for "Book Thief" and have now corrected it**
The Book Thief - 576 pages- Death, a sardonic and articulate character who is afraid of humans, narrates this WWII coming-of-age story about faith, love, hope amidst tragedy.
Where Angels Fear to Tread The Zygan Emprise Book I- 256 pages - TV teen stars, Shiloh Rush and William "Spud" Escott, take off on non-stop adventure to track down Shiloh’s brother across an intergalactic empire still hidden from Earth.
Vurt- 342 pages – A cyberpunk novel with a difference, a rollicking, dark, yet humorous examination of a future in which the boundaries between reality and virtual reality are as tenuous as the brush of a feather.
Snow Crash - 440 pages - A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible.
The Gone-Away World – 544 pages - Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana, and ultra-cool epic, this is a story of—among other things—love, pirates, mimes, greed, and ninjas. But it is also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroes—however unlikely they may seem.
Slaughterhouse-Five – 275 pages - Fashions Vonnegut’s experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority.
The City & the City – 416 pages - With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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created March 31st
poll #8
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Vote vote vote!
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created March 4th
poll #9
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Should "Watchmen" have been made into a movie?
Yes - they treated the source material right
Yes - coz it looks awesome!
No - there's no way they could match the complexity of the book
No - but it could have made a good HBO series
I don't care - Hollywood just keeps cashing in on these comic book movies
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created March 1st
poll #10
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Second Book! Sorry this is a little late... I blame the month of February for being so confusingly short. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
I know there were some suggestions for Canticle for Leibowitz but since it was in the poll last month, we'll go ahead and skip it this month.
I know there were some suggestions for Canticle for Leibowitz but since it was in the poll last month, we'll go ahead and skip it this month.
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created January 26th
poll #11
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Book One
Here be dragons! Welcome to the First Chapter (heh, see what I did there?) of the First Order of the Reading Rainbow Coalition!
I narrowed down our selection to some pretty juicy choices. Poll closes on Saturday.
Here be dragons! Welcome to the First Chapter (heh, see what I did there?) of the First Order of the Reading Rainbow Coalition!
I narrowed down our selection to some pretty juicy choices. Poll closes on Saturday.
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