Is the Truman Capote book the only fiction to vote for?

Geesh!

OK . . .

1) Iin Cold Blood
2) Predictably Irrational
3) OUr Inner Age

In Cold Blood is considered non-fiction even though the book is in novel format. This poll is for selecting our May & June 2008 non-fiction book. We'll have a separate book poll for our fiction selection soon.

My three votes go to Your Inner Fish.

It picks up evolutionary themes of high interest in an extremely informative way. I particularly liked the statement 'the best roadmaps to human bodies lie in the bodies of other animals.'

Describing our genetic links with a range of animals it says

Attention Mr. Pessimistic

So are you going to keep score or what!?

I would like my three votes to go to:

Book 2: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

Thanks

Cult of Pharama - 1

Inner Fish - 6

Inner Ape - 5

Predictably Irrational - 5

In Cold Blood - 1

I will cast my votes for "Inner Fish" All three.

"Predictably Irrational" reminds me too much of "Freakonomics" (which I am listening to now).

"Inner Ape" I have seen before and thought to pick up...but we already read Diamond's "Third Chimpanzee", again this rreminds me of that book.

"Cult of Pharma" looked interesting, but after reading the description, not what I would consider at this point. (I read a similar book a while ago called "Selling Sickness" that was similar to this one).

"In Cold Blood" - Why?


So there it is. New Totals:


Inner Ape - 5

Inner Fish - 9

Cult of Pharma - 1

Predictably Irrational - 5

In Cold Blood - 1

You kinda wish you never stepped into the role of score keeper, eh? LOL

1 vote for each of these books:

The Cult of Pharmacology
Predictably Irrational
Our Inner Ape

I suggested the first two, which I will read anyway for my real-life book group. Our Inner Ape also seemed interesting and discussion-worthy.

The other two books seemed less appealing. In Cold Blood doesn't interest me at all, and I'm afraid a book about evolution won't give us anything to talk about.

Is anyone else going to vote and participate in the next non-fiction discussion? Not many people have cast votes so far.