December Book Study Poll - Fantasy

Silly me, the polls are out and me posting on the old thread like a nitwit! Oh well...

Tough one, I'll have to think about it.

Ooh, I had to choose one I didn't suggest, LOL! Midnight's Children sounds way too good.

Fenika said:

No worries, Max.

And yes, tough choices. I'm leaning toward One Hundred Years. Have you read that one, Max? I seem to recall you praising it in the cantina

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Yeah, I quite liked it (Though my favorite García Márquez's novel is Autumn of the Patriarch), it's one of those books they always send you to read in high school and either change your life or sinks you unto boredom. I read it when I was 12 and it was the first novel I couldn't stop reading (I mean, I even forgot to eat one day reading it!).

El Gabo starts out painting some wide brushes and as the novel goes on you can see the more delicated features, the build-up of the landscapes until... well, I better don't spoil it

Another month, another tricky poll. I voted for Midnight's Children. I'm surprise to see Night Watch pulling ahead (though I wouldn't mind reading it as well).

I'm impressed that Night Watch has pulled ahead in the poll! I think I have suggested it for just about every book club this year I hope I am not the only one who likes it...If you've seen the movie, the book is like the movie only with a better plot and actually making sense.

Bump! Vote vote vote! You know you're going to be flying/on a long drive/hiding from your in-laws in the bathroom, and you'll definitely want to join us in reading and discussing a book in December!

Wait - Brave story is a YA at 820 pages!


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I probably won't have time to read it ( I have a review list that is yards long!) but 100 Years if Solitude sounds good -- and I've wanted to read Night Watch for ages

Not voting ( as I probably won't get time to read) but some nice looking books there.

I have it at home and the margins are realllllly wide and it's like triple-spaced!

ETA: Sweet galloping Song Of Ice And Fire, it's 286,000 words :O

ETA Again: But the words are like, really short ones.

IdiotsRUs said:

Wait - Brave story is a YA at 820 pages!


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Fenika said:

IRU- you can always catch up in the spring, heh

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Can we just stop the world for, oh, I don't know, six months? Then I could catch up!

PS - I am noting downs the noms though, for things to review in the future

I voted for Night Watch. I really want to read it, so I hope I can manage to do the book study this time. Haven't had much luck in the past.

Midnight's Children sounded interesting, but if I remember rightly, there's not so much in the book actually about the premise. That's a negative for me.

OMG! It's neck and neck (and...neck), people!

They're all hefty books - I looked up Brave Story on the Renaissance Learning site and it's 286,176 words. Yikes! That makes it the longest YA I've ever come across. The only other single-volume YAs I know that come close are Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (257,154) and Aidan Chambers's This Is All (256,600).

I read One Hundred Years... in 1998 (it went with me on a holiday to Shetland) and Midnight Children after it won the Booker Prize, so 1982 I think. Still remember quite a lot of both.

Unless one of the ones I've already read wins I'll have to duck out of this one, so won't vote. I have two review copies still in the pile and also GRRM's A Feast for Crows, which must be about the same as Brave Story in word count.

ETA: KP got there before me with the Brave Story word count.

Yay!

You know, the one downside to these polls is that I go check out the Amazon.com pages for these books, and regardless of which book actually wins the poll, I find myself adding more and more books to my reading queue...