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

[oblivion]

I'm doing the opposite of Suzanne:

Two votes for: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
One vote for: Kafka On The Shore

Murakami is simply a master!
Although I have to admit toying with the thought of nominating "Snow Flower" as well. Sigh. Too many books to read, too short of a life. Do I detect an Asian theme here?

[bleachededen]

3 votes for Cryptonomicon.

I'm really interested in World War II and I'd like to see how Stephenson tackles it. I'm also very interested to see how he contrasts the technology of the 1940s and the code breakers who used the German enigma device against them, and the future world that uses sophisticated computer languages to do pretty much anything, and how people in the past view the future, and how people in the future view the events of the past. Even though this book is supposedly nothing like Snow Crash, I can tell Stephenson will have some really fascinating tricks up his sleeve that will provide many topics for discussion. I remember reading about the Sumerian language in Snow Crash, and its primal, physical connection to the brain and the Chomskyan suggestion that humans are "hardwired" to receive language, and thinking of the layers of knowledge and language on top of the baser primal knowledge of ancient language as hardware and software and wishing I had someone who was also reading what I was reading to discuss the ideas with. While my boyfriend was very patient and interested, discussion of an exciting topic in a book isn't the same unless the person you're talking to is reading the same thing you are and has the same basic knowledge of the ideas behind it. I wish I had had BookTalk for that one, and I would like to read Cryptonomicon with the kind of insight and literary background the BookTalk community has to offer.

Please let me read this with you!

[Chris OConnor]

Any more votes? We don't have enough people voting currently to select a winner.

[seespotrun2008]

1 each Book 2, 4, and 5. These all look really good!

[Theomanic]

I vote two for Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (#4), and one for Kafka On The Shore (#3). I guess I sort of split the vote by suggesting two books by the same author. It wasn't intentional!

[Suzanne]

I think Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is looking pretty good!

[Taylor]

3 votes for book # 4
it seems to be the one most likely to pique my curiosity

[farmgirlshelley]

book 3

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

[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.

[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