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View Poll Results: Which book do you want to read first?
Marching Powder - Rusty Young 1 5.00%
The Book Of Lights - Chaim Potok 0 0%
Life of Pi - Yann Martel 4 20.00%
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers 2 10.00%
American Tabloid - James Ellroy 2 10.00%
I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan 8 40.00%
Dispatches - Michael Herr 1 5.00%
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy 0 0%
Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson 0 0%
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein 0 0%
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth 0 0%
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver 2 10.00%
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Old 23-01-2007, 10:23   #31 (permalink)

 
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Ok, so the final list is like this:
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I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan 8 40.00%
Life of Pi - Yann Martel 4 20.00%
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers 2 10.00%
American Tabloid - James Ellroy 2 10.00%
We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver 2 10.00%
Marching Powder - Rusty Young 1 5.00%
Dispatches - Michael Herr 1 5.00%
The Book Of Lights - Chaim Potok 0 0%
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy 0 0%
Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson 0 0%
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein 0 0%
An Equal Music - Vikram Seth 0 0%
The I, Lucifer thread has been up for a fair while now so I'll unsticky it and put up the next one.
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that's me just placed an order on amazon for the rest of the books. once i get Eggers down, i'l have the first seven out of the way. good prices too for most of them. the postage cost was considerably more than the book in almost every case!

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