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honestly those all look pretty great and i haven't read a single one. my vote goes to gould's book of fish.
#5 sounds good.
To Each His Own
The Street of Crocodiles sounds awesome, but I'm going to vote for Gould's Book of Fish. Sounds like a good starting point
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Street of Crocodiles or To Each His Own. .. i've read Gould's Book of Fish, so.
I vote for whatever is cheapest to buy
diary of a country priest but i might not be doing this
i notice none of them are by women.
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Have they written anything good?
I think I'm going to cast my own vote for To Each His Own.
My vote goes for the Street of Crocodiles. Second choice would be Diary of a Country Priest.Also a vote against Gould's Book of Fish because it seems to be out of print in the U.S. so getting a copy is going to be more difficult than with the other books.
People, books can also be found in libraries.
That's fine. I like to buy books that I read though, so if I can't buy it, I won't be participating. Whatever though, if that's the case it's fine.
Hey guys. I want to pick a book soon, so please choose tonight! I don't want to make a hipinion thread.
but i did
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street of crocodiles
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Yep. Just a few more hours of voting and then we can start tomorrow.Looks like it's going to be between Street of Crocodiles and To Each His Own.
At 11:37 EST Sunday night, here is how the votes stand (corrected, sorry about that Brandon):
Gould's Book of Fish (6): chase, Jon, Ben, Brandon, J, JD
Street of Crocodiles (5): janey, rob, toph, jacob, John
To Each His Own (3): EZ, chuck, Geoff*
Diary of a Country Priest (1): Billy
Futility (0)
* by virtue of TEHO being cheapest on amazon.com
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I'd vote for Street of Crocodiles, but I just joined this group and don't want to be a prick.
so when this is over just post us a new thread saying 1st book and title or something.and i'm sure it will not such so i'm just going to order it, so i'm sure a few of us won't get it for a few days....
surely we should impose some kind of deadline so that we can discuss.
two weeks is perfect. it's just enough initiative to get off one's ass.oh and discussion on hipinion or here?
Book of Fish
At midnight, I'll change my vote to one of the two front runners to break any ties that still exist.
Gould's Book of Fish.Two weeks sounds good.
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I'll try to find a copy of it this week. It looks like I was wrong about it not being in print. For some reason it wasn't showing up in a search on Amazon though.Anyway, 2 weeks might be pushing it for me to read 400 pages, but I'll give it a shot. If nothing else, this will get me to eventually read a book that I may never have picked up. It does look pretty great.
2. Richard Flanagan: Gould's Book of Fish
3. Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles
4. Georges Bernanos: The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
5. Leonardo Sciascia: To Each His Own
I replaced the really hard to find one, the really long one and the really non-fiction one.
Post here in this thread to vote. Voting will be open until Sunday night at midnight.