OCUK Book Club - Lottery for choice #2

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Hey

Now last time I created the poll for the book club some members were not too happy that certain genres were not included, or some styles were not available as a choice - and from what I could see they all came from genres I was unfamiliar with.

Now, to make it fairer this time round, I am asking all people wanting to participate to submit a post in this thread containing three books (Fiction only) which I will collect together and choose five books from at random for the next poll.

Does this sound fair enough to everyone?

Post away,

Rich
 
Sounds fair to me.

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
 
The Bear & The Dragon ~ Tom Clancy

Serpent ~ Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos.

I Jedi ~ Michael A. Stackpole (Yes I know It's science Fiction But T'is an awesome book)
 
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brazo two zero
the one that got away
ok, both supposed to be real but many people dispute a lot in both books.
cant think of a third!
 
Gilly said:
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
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Great story, shame I've only just read it otherwise I'd definitely be happy to read it again.

I've been given a few Philip Pullman books to read recently so The Golden Compass would work for me and seems popular at the moment with the films release.

White Fang by Jack London is a classic and I've not read it for a while.

Not sure on the third book, I'll have a check when I get home and edit this post to include another.

//late edit as promised - The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham.
 
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Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
Graham Greene - The Ministry of Fear
 
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Middlemarch - T.S Elliot

My few choices (I may have bought the first two earlier in the week...:p)

Rich
 
August 1914 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Berlin Game - Len Deighton
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
Life of Pi - Yann Martell
A Fatal Inversion - Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell).


M
 
Just a heads up for anyone else wanting to add some novels to this thread, the next poll will be on Monday 21st so get your books on the list before Noon that day.

Rich
 
I didn't get involved with the first 'read' of the book club as I read Catch-22 a long time ago and didn't feel as though I needed to read it again. I did enjoy it at the time, certainly more than ' Closing time' though not as much as 'God knows'.

My suggestions are;


Jungle Book- Rudyard Kipling. Just to disillusion those that thought watching the Disney version is enough. If you don't know who Ricki-Tikki-Tavi is then you really need to read this.
The War of Don Emmanuels nether parts- Louis De Berniers. For all who have read Corelli, this is better.
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho. Short and sweet enough to make sure that even the most short attention-spanned can finish it.
 
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