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Poll: What book should we read in March

#1 Dreamteam

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Posted 24 January 2009 - 04:09 PM

As we now have a few suggestions for which book we should read in March we're starting a poll to decide. Please select from the list above. We'll leave this open for the next couple of weeks and then close it and announce the winner so that everyone has time to get reading before we open.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 06:30 PM

I'm gonna have to go with Wuthering Heights because it was in Twilight, and I have been wanting to read it ever since I heard about it.
I saw the book in one of my classrooms, and I never had a good reason to read it, so now I will have a good reason!

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 06:34 PM

Wuthering Heights is good, but it's hard to get through... it's a lot of worthless drama and craziness that I think is a bit of a waste of time...

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 07:58 PM

Personally I voted for Wuthering Heights because I thought it was a fantastic book and I would love to chat about it.

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Posted 26 January 2009 - 08:26 PM

^^Exactly! It's been one of my favourites for years now and I would love to get other peoples insight into what it means to them. A beautiful and haunting story. It's hard not to love it.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 04:02 PM

I've tried reading Wuthering Heights before but it just doesn't compute with me. My friend insists that I read it and says it's a wonderful book and it probably is to a lot of people but for some reason I just don't get it. I don't get what's going on it and the writing just doesn't suck me up.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 07:36 PM

I voted for Hamlet, because even though it's a tragedy, there are so many things that could be discussed. Shakespeare's like that.

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 10:18 PM

I voted for Hamlet, as it's one of those plays that you get something new and mind-bogglingly interesting out of it every time you read it. Lots of

moments throughout. (And yeah, it's been a while since I've cracked open its pages).

It's one of my favorite plays, evah!

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Posted 29 January 2009 - 02:00 PM

I voted for I Capture the Castle because I've never heard of it and probably won't read it soon if we don't discuss it here. I also really like the title and it sounds very intriguing. I'll be reading Catcher in the Rye and I think Hamlet at some point soon in school and I've already read and loved Clockwork. Even if we don't read that with the book club I command everyone to read it at some point!

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Posted 30 January 2009 - 07:37 AM

I tried getting Clockwork the other day at the bookstore, and it was a special order item. I'm going to check it out on Amazon because at least they will deliver it to my door!

I loved Wuthering Heights in high school and it was required reading for me at that time. Now that I'm (much

) older, it doesn't grab me like it used to...it is too much of a "hopeless love" story...perhaps that is why it was used in "Twilight"?

I've voted for this once before, but I'm choosing "I Capture the Castle" this time around. I read it a few years ago and would like to read it again to discuss it in depth. It was written by the author of "The 101 Dalmations", just to give you a reference point, but the stories are entirely different.