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| Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde |
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7 | 20.59% |
| The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers |
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6 | 17.65% |
| The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera |
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6 | 17.65% |
| The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck |
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6 | 17.65% |
| Arcadia by Tom Stoppard |
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8 | 23.53% |
| These suck so I posted my idea as a comment below |
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1 | 2.94% |
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POLL: Vote for as many options as you think you might read. If you have another suggestion, list it in a comment with a note explaining why it's a better pick. If you do vote, please consider participating and reading along. Poll will stay up for three days. 1) Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde  quote:The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/ˈredɪŋ dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Reading_Gaol 2) THe Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories by Carson McCullers  quote:In “The Ballad of the Sad Café,” heat is boredom, lifelessness—and, in the opening passage, lovelessness, sexlessness. Miss Amelia materializes from the heat, a nightmare vision consumed by grief. We see her for a second, the heat takes her again. She is no longer (or not yet) the character we will read about in the following chapters: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/from-the-ballad-of-the-sad-caf 3) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera  quote:The Unbearable Lightness of Being takes place mainly in Prague in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and three other Warsaw Pact countries and its aftermath. The main characters are: Tomáš, an adulterous surgeon; his wife Tereza, a photographer anguished by her husband's infidelities; Tomáš’s lover Sabina, a free-spirited artist; Franz, a Swiss university professor and lover of Sabina; and finally Šimon, Tomáš’s estranged son from an earlier marriage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being 4) The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck  quote:The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from 15th-century English play Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original publication, The Wayward Bus was financially more successful than any of his previous works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wayward_Bus 5) _Arcadia_ by Tom Stoppard  quote:Arcadia is a 1993 play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. It has been praised by many critics as the finest play from one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in the English language.[1] In 2006, the Royal Institution of Great Britain named it one of the best science-related works ever written.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(play) 6)These suck pick something else no I don't have any other ideas or I would post them as a comment below Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Oct 31, 2018 |
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These are all pretty sweet. Some observations for those who read on kindle: Unbearable Lightness of Being doesn't seem to have a kindle version. Ballad of Reading Gaol is free on kindle, though. Ballad of the Sad Cafe is only $8 on kindle, but you can get her complete short stories plus two novellas on kindle for just two more dollars.
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Nov 1, 2018 16:30
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I like Oscar Wilde and the book is free, got my vote.
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Nov 3, 2018 03:11
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Ok, Arcadia has it by a nose, but we may do Reading Gaol sometime in the near future. I''ll get a thread up tomorrow.quote:
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Nov 4, 2018 04:12
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arcadia sounds good but im not reading it unless it has like ghosts or something in it, OP
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Nov 4, 2018 04:38
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chernobyl kinsman posted:arcadia sounds good but im not reading it unless it has like ghosts or something in it, OP . . . Sorta.
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Nov 4, 2018 04:59
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