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Old 04-26-01, 10:11 AM
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This is the list of nominations and I ask that you vote your favorite two. The voting will run from 10am Thursday until 11:59pm Friday. Please cast your vote if you are in the book club. If not, but you would like to be, sign up and get to voting!

I'll print the winning book around midnight with links to purchase.
[list=A][*]Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers [*]Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card [*]The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien [*]Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem [*]Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson [*]Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks [*]The Remorseful Day by Collin Dexter [*]The Prometheus Deception by Robert Ludlum [*]The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King [*]Born Bad by Andrew Vachss [*]All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy [*]"the gunslinger" by stephen king [*]The Glass Bead Game/Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse. [*]Hard Candy or Born Bad by Andrew Vachss [*]Nothing Gold Can Stay by Casey Nelson [*]WONDER BOYS by MICHAEL CHABON [*]The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson [*]Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson [*]Catch-22 by Joseph L. Heller [*]Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlien [*]House of Mirth by Edith Wharton [*]Vurt by Jeff Noon [/list=A]

thanks to Scarecrow for composing this list of nominations!

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Old 04-26-01, 10:12 AM
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My votes:

A and P
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Old 04-26-01, 10:20 AM
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My vote is A, but there are some other good books on that list that I wouldn't mind rereading.

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I'll say A and B



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Old 04-26-01, 10:29 AM
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Old 04-26-01, 10:30 AM
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My votes are for A and C

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Old 04-26-01, 10:53 AM
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I & P for me
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Old 04-26-01, 10:59 AM
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B. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
C. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

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Old 04-26-01, 11:05 AM
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The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Catch-22 by Joseph L. Heller


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A AHWOSG and QKiller Inside Me
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Old 04-26-01, 11:28 AM
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A

BTW, I think there's too many choices.
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Old 04-26-01, 11:32 AM
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I choose

B--Ender's Game
U--The House of Mirth.

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Going with A

Its been sitting on my table long enough...
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D & Q
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B. or Q. for me.

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P. WONDER BOYS by MICHAEL CHABON

U. House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
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B. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
P. WONDER BOYS by MICHAEL CHABON
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A or E
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J. <-- my initial, not a vote
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