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| Marching Powder - Rusty Young |
  
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1 | 5.00% |
| The Book Of Lights - Chaim Potok |
  
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| Life of Pi - Yann Martel |
  
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4 | 20.00% |
| A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers |
  
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2 | 10.00% |
| American Tabloid - James Ellroy |
  
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2 | 10.00% |
| I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan |
  
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8 | 40.00% |
| Dispatches - Michael Herr |
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1 | 5.00% |
| The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy |
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| Notes from a Big Country - Bill Bryson |
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0 | 0% |
| Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein |
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| An Equal Music - Vikram Seth |
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0 | 0% |
| We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver |
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2 | 10.00% |
| Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Aberdeen Music Book Club - Nomination Thread -
12-11-2006, 18:23
OK. We've got enough nominations now.
The thread is still open but I've put a poll up with all the suggested books. Please vote for the book you want to read first and that will give us the order to read them in. ~ Bill Hicks |
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12-11-2006, 18:37
 Book: Marching Powder Author: Rusty Young Synop: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail. Including a cat addicted to crack. All night parties with tourists, and cocaine labs within the prison, the same cocine he gets thrown in jail for !?! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marching-Pow...e=UTF8&s=books |
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12-11-2006, 19:24
 Book:The Book Of Lights Author:Chaim Potok Gershon Loran, a quiet rabinical student, is troubled by the dark reality around him. He sees hope in the study of Kabbalah, the Jewish bok of mysticism and visions, truth and light. But to Gershon's friend, Arthur, light means something else, the Atom bomb, which his father helped create. Both men seek refuge in a foreign place, hoping for the same thing.... http://www.amazon.com/Book-Lights-Ch.../dp/0449245691 
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Life of Pi -
13-11-2006, 09:53
What can I say about this book? its just bloody brilliant.
Read it, even if it isn't picked as a review book. pete inthehills Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if that’s the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in gorgeously-hued India, the Muslim-Christian-animistic Pi sets off for a fresh start in Canada. His blissful voyage is rudely interrupted when his boat is scuppered halfway across the Pacific, and he is forced to rough it in a lifeboat with a hyena, a monkey, a whingeing zebra and a tiger called Richard. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Pi-Yann...e=UTF8&s=books |
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13-11-2006, 10:51
 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Synopsis Dave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heartbreakin...e=UTF8&s=books |
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14-11-2006, 20:21
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Tab...e=UTF8&s=books Set in the period from 1958 up to the moment in 1963 when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza and ended JFK's thousand day presidancy. The novel follows the lives of 3 men caught up in the events surrounding the cuban resitence, a presidential rise to power, the bay of pigs and the twisted mass of plots leading up to November 22nd 1963. ~ Bill Hicks |
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14-11-2006, 20:42
I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan
http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Lucifer-Gl...e=UTF8&s=books Glen Duncan’s I, Lucifer begins one steamy summer as some heavy negotiations are taking place in Heaven. God has decided to give Lucifer, the furthest-fallen of all fallen angels, a second chance. The Prince of Darkness can return to the fold, provided he manages to last one month on earth without sin. The human form chosen for this celestial experiment? A depressed novelist of little renown, currently contemplating suicide in his Clerkenwell garret. |
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15-11-2006, 08:50
dispatches - michael herr
 Michael Herr helped write the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket and this shows you where he got the ideas from. These are his memoirs from the years he spent in Vietnam as a correspondent for Esquire magazine. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dispatches-M...e=UTF8&s=books |
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The Cold Six Thousand -
15-11-2006, 12:17
 The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Synopsis This story is set in Dallas, in the November of '63. The heart of the American Dream detonated, Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches... The follow up to the crtically acclaimed American Tabloid http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Six-Tho...e=UTF8&s=books |
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15-11-2006, 14:50
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson  Bryson's classed as a Travel writer, but he really is so much more. This is a collection of articles (although un-distinguishable from chapters thanks to his writing style) he did on moving back to America after a period of living in Britain. Very funny, informative, but not simply observational stuff. I think it'd be a different choice, and maybe not ideal for the first book the club covers. Definately worth considering for a change of pace from fiction though. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Big-Co...e=UTF8&s=books |
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