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Lets Vote for What to Read Next, The next individual book and the next series.
Lets Vote for What to Read Next
Which individual book should we read next?
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen [ 3 ]  ** [6.98%]
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ 7 ]  ** [16.28%]
Persuasion - Jane Austen [ 0 ]  ** [0.00%]
The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge [ 2 ]  ** [4.65%]
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith [ 8 ]  ** [18.60%]
Ballet Shoes - Noel Streatfeild [ 4 ]  ** [9.30%]
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ 19 ]  ** [44.19%]
Which series should we read next?
The Chronicles of Narnia - C S Lewis [ 27 ]  ** [62.79%]
Lord of the Rings - J R R Tolkien [ 14 ]  ** [32.56%]
The Sally Lockhart Trilogy - Philip Pullman [ 2 ]  ** [4.65%]
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post Jun 18 2008, 07:01 AM
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Well I think we now have a long enough list to start voting.

We've already agreed that the next book we read will be The Amber Spyglass, which we'll start reading on 12 July and ends our first series, so the first part of the poll is to decide which individual book we should read after that, starting on 9 August.

The second part of the poll is to vote on which series we should read next, that will begin on 6 September and will be read during alternate months - there will be later polls to choose the individual books to be read in between.

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Do you consider The Hobbit a book in its own right, separate from the Lord of the Rings series, or a prequel of that series? For the individual book I think it is about time we did I capture the castle, a book that has been mentioned a lot previously, and if you don't want to continue on from the Hobbit with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I'd like to do the Narnia series, especially as Prince Caspian is still screening. The question is, which book would you start it with? Magician's Nephew or the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?


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QUOTE(WaggaWaggaWerewolf @ Jun 22 2008, 03:45 AM) *
Do you consider The Hobbit a book in its own right, separate from the Lord of the Rings series, or a prequel of that series? For the individual book I think it is about time we did I capture the castle, a book that has been mentioned a lot previously, and if you don't want to continue on from the Hobbit with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I'd like to do the Narnia series, especially as Prince Caspian is still screening. The question is, which book would you start it with? Magician's Nephew or the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe?
The Hobbit is both--it stands alone quite nicely but the others are also built from it. In many ways it is like HP Book One.

The decision about the order to cover Narnia is interesting--should we follow the order in which they were written or the order of the storyline. Disney seems to be following the order of publication:
Lion, Witch, Wardrobe -1951
Caspian '51
Dawn Treader '52
Silver Chair '53
Horse and Boy '54
Magician's Nephew '55
Last Battle '56
The Storyline however is
Magician's Nephew
Lion, Witch, Wardrobe
Horse and Boy
Caspian
Dawn Treader
Silver Chair
Last Battle
Interesting that both the beginning and ending should have been written last (seems to suggest that unlike JKR, Lewis had not conceived of an entire, coherent storyline before beginning. I believe something similar is true of Tolkien; I think when he wrote the Hobbit he had not considered the rest.

So, our decision is probably going to be to follow one of the two orders above--or make up our own order.


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- Dreamteam   Lets Vote for What to Read Next   Jun 18 2008, 07:01 AM
- - lirene   For an individual book I chose "Sense and Sen...   Jun 20 2008, 11:31 AM
|- - Moose_Starr   QUOTE(lirene @ Jun 20 2008, 02:31 PM) For...   Jun 20 2008, 11:49 AM
- - phoenix call   I chose "To Kill a Mockingbird", have ne...   Jun 20 2008, 11:34 AM
- - luna_sparkle   In the end I chose 'To Kill a Mockingbird...   Jun 20 2008, 12:30 PM
- - Pleione   I went with Sense and Sensibility because I've...   Jun 20 2008, 12:30 PM
- - NYBookworm   I chose To Kill a Mockingbird because it's the...   Jun 20 2008, 07:42 PM
- - wordsaremagic   It looks to me as if the vote is basically no cont...   Jun 20 2008, 11:11 PM
- - Mary Wanguard   I voted for LOTR as the series to read, because, w...   Jun 21 2008, 04:58 AM
- - Moose_Starr   QUOTE(WaggaWaggaWerewolf @ Jun 22 2008, 08...   Jun 22 2008, 11:37 AM
- - Dreamteam   As the Narnia books seem to be in front in the pol...   Jun 22 2008, 05:27 PM
- - Dreamteam   Just to let everyone know that I think we'll c...   Jun 26 2008, 03:32 PM
|- - Moose_Starr   QUOTE(Dreamteam @ Jun 26 2008, 06:32 PM) ...   Jun 27 2008, 11:35 AM
- - Dreamteam   OK, its time to close this thread. 12 July We...   Jun 30 2008, 04:16 PM

 

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