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Permalink Reply by Calla on July 15, 2008 at 8:59am

Andrew, the system your group uses is cool, but will require some work. I guess we can try that the first time around, if only to see how badly it works with 10+ people, and then come up with something better. :D

We'll set up a thread for nominations, and then another one for the actual voting? That way we wouldn't actually need a separate poll on some random poll site. But votes wouldn't be anonymous either.

Hmm.

Permalink Reply by Andrew on July 15, 2008 at 9:17am

Yeah, it'd be making a lot of work for someone :)

Permalink Reply by Calla on July 15, 2008 at 11:49am

I'm willing to do the work, at least this time around. :P
So let's get nominating! Starting a new thread for that now... Let's hope all goes well.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Nicklasson on July 15, 2008 at 4:01pm

I'm interested, though whether or not I'll read the suggested books will probably come down to whether or not I can find them for cheap at one of my favorite second-hand shops (provided I don't already own them of course). Since I'm not that interested in ordering them over the internet or borrowing from the local library (I simply prefer collecting them).

Permalink Reply by Andrew on July 15, 2008 at 4:18pm

Thought it might be worth putting a link in here to the thread for making book nominations

Permalink Reply by Valis on July 17, 2008 at 11:59am

Ok, I'm in. Just tell me the book and I'll read it ;-) I'll willingly nominate a book as well, what was the category again?

Permalink Reply by Vitomama on July 18, 2008 at 5:13pm

I'd love to try to keep up with this. It's so hard to commit to a time-consuming project, but my brain could use something other than logic puzzles for a change.

Permalink Reply by Gordon on July 18, 2008 at 11:22pm

As a retired professor of world literature it would be difficult for me to suggest one book/treasure for others to read, but just about anything by Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez would certainly be a possibility.

Permalink Reply by Rosa on August 23, 2008 at 4:23pm

agreed, I think Borges' Aleph is excellent and easy to read.

I don't know about García Maquez, I think his only really remarkable work is A Hundred Years of Solitude without a doubt, but it's just incredibly lenghty. Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Of Love and other Demons are sort of interesting, but in general I'm not so sure...he just recycles the same old themes too much (I found Memories of my Melancholy Whores to be incredibly boring).

Speaking of latinamerican authors, how about Isabel Allende? I've always had a mind about reading The House of Spirits and somehow never came around to it. I'd like to reread Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, it's a very interesing little book that one (plus it has all sorts of delicious exotic recipes from traditional mexican cuisine..yummm).

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