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Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 7:45 pm
by Suzanne
I think Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is looking pretty good!

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 9:25 pm
by Taylor
3 votes for book # 4
it seems to be the one most likely to pique my curiosity

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:56 am
by farmgirlshelley
book 3

it sounds intriguing, just the type of book that I would like to read!

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 4:35 pm
by Chris OConnor
I'll cast 3 votes as follows...

2 for Bird and 1 for Snow

Current Tally

1 Crypt = 3
2 Help = 1
3 Kafka = 7
4 Bird = 14
5 Snow = 5

Let's end this poll tomorrow night.

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:15 pm
by meliamom
Well, I guess I'm all alone! Three votes for The Help. I think there could be a lot of great discussions about roles of women and race. I was going to read this book anyway, and I would be great to discuss with others. Also, it looks like a quick read, so I can get caught up with Don Quixote by the end of June :)

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 11:49 pm
by ariza
Wind up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. In that order!

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:48 am
by Chris OConnor
Ariza, please read the directions in the first post.

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 12:50 am
by Chris OConnor
farmgirlshelley, please read the directions. :) Or are you wanting to cast 3 votes for that book? If so it is still helpful to say so.

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:42 pm
by ariza
2 votes for Windup Bird Chronicle
1 vote for Book Kafka on the shore

Alright her are the reasons.

Murakami has piqued my interest ever since I knew he was the Japanese translator for Raymond Carver. The I read about Windup Bird Chronicle and bought it. Unfortunately, my friend borrowed it then and never returned it. When she married me our books were mutually merged and I now have the chance to read it. What better way to do it than with a bunch of folks who are going to read with me!

This friend also went on to read Kafka on the shore and she assures me that this is a better book. She says Murakami can be surreal (in the louis-bunuel-sort-of-way) and also terribly eastern in his aesthetic. Further he breaks away from the long line of Japanese writers like Mishima and kawabata and writes in a style that reflects the concerns of urban Japan whose constant imagery is of Anime cartoons, Harakiri, Samurai and brand new Electronics not to mention Urban Legends and weird cults. Coming from another country in the east, India, and with aspirations to write, I am eager to know how the eastern aesthetic has been differentiated from the western in an influential writer.

Plus I want to read something different and by what I read and what I have been told this is supposed to be very different from other reads I did this year. Looking forward to it.

Re: Official Fiction Book Poll: Vote for our June, July & August 2010 FICTION book!

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 10:42 pm
by bleachededen
ariza wrote: Murakami has piqued my interest ever since I knew he was the Japanese translator for Raymond Carver. The I read about Windup Bird Chronicle and bought it. Unfortunately, my friend borrowed it then and never returned it. When she married me our books were mutually merged and I now have the chance to read it. What better way to do it than with a bunch of folks who are going to read with me!
Off topic, but this is so cute!! :lol:

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