Why don't we just forget all comments on these eight and start fresh? Give our nominated books a clean slate?

Hurray for narrowing it down from twenty to eight!

Bleached, I just looked it up and "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott is 148 pages which does seem rather short... BUT if you pair it up with "Sphereland" it's 352.

Amazon has the two in one.

Okay so I was a little foggy on what has been recommended so far so I made this if anyone else wants to take a gander. "The Tin Drum" by Günter Grass “Les Misérable” by Victor Hugo “Blindness” by Jose Saramago “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair “Hunchback o...

Wasn't the discussion about how people didn't want to read books taking place in Japan?

I also don't know what you mean by "majority rules," Gen, because for several pages the majority was headed toward science fiction until several books were brought up that have already been read by many members, and once those were ruled out, all we were left with was the only book actual...

*sigh* I think we're all just a little on edge right now? Either way... This is usually done by majority rule, Bleached, you know that. Maybe when something like this happens the minority can kind of form like a side forum discussion? Isn't that what happens anyway? What would you like to read? Mayb...

"The Tin Drum" Gunter Grass http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/067972575X/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books "When Günter Grass published The Tin Drum in 1959, it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguisti...

I did not read her introduction. However, I think it would take a somewhat immoral person not to publish his work just because she may not have agreed with it. And it's possible she did agree with it. Obviously I'm speaking from ignorance here, since I didn't read the intro - what did she say? Heh,...

Science fiction???????????? Why? How is it that there are so many females on here that are into science fiction? Aren't guys with pimples and braces supposed to be into that stuff???? What the hell.... Wait... is this a bad thing? Either way, Suzzanne, I take it you're not a fan? My vote goes on an...

But women can't write! I just looked up the plot. It seems interesting enough and fits with the futuristic book feel I've been wanting. "In a startling departure from her previous novels ( Lady Oracle , Surfacing ), respected Canadian poet and novelist Atwood presents here a fable of the near f...