frozenman on 8/7/2006 at 17:12
I'm hoping for Lolita simply because I already have it and its just been laying around poking me in the foot.
Paz on 8/7/2006 at 17:44
You just have to click on the numbers in the poll to see who voted for what (unless someone just switched that on recently).
... which I guess they did, 'cos the World Cup poll doesn't work like that.
WELL THEN
doctorfrog on 8/7/2006 at 18:29
Torn between The Big Sleep and Lolita. TBS because I sure as all hell didn't understand it the first time around, and Lolita because it's a damn shame I've never read Nabokov.
(Voted Lolita, paedo FTW.)
Stitch on 8/7/2006 at 19:51
Sweet, the poll seems to be working now.
What doesn't seem to be working is this book club as you're all voting for trash :(
OnionBob on 8/7/2006 at 20:02
Quote Posted by Stitch
Sweet, the poll seems to be working now.
What doesn't seem to be working is this book club as you're all voting for trash :(
Wait til you hear what I've got to say about Life of Pi, bucko!
Para?noid on 8/7/2006 at 20:47
I think insulting each other's book choices should be mandatory
also who voted for fermats last theorem :thumb: since it's not going to win i may as well get started on it now
thefonz on 8/7/2006 at 23:04
ive read it.
[SPOILER]turns out the quadratics did it.[/SPOILER]
ignatios on 8/7/2006 at 23:22
Totally would have voted for After the Quake except that The Big Sleep looks hella fun.
[SPOILER]And after Life of Pi I'm desperate for something at least a little fun.[/SPOILER]
Plus noir is fucking :cool: and I never read books like that, ever
Tonamel on 9/7/2006 at 01:38
I've read one of Singh's other books, The Code Book, which was pretty awesome, but Fermat never really had much appeal to me.
If House of Leaves had been left in the voting, I totally would have gone for that. Amazing book.
OnionBob on 9/7/2006 at 01:57
And don't get me wrong, I'm ALL about the geeky books (the brainy ones, not the hurrr science fiction durrr ones); Cryptonomicon for instance is the best book I've read in years, has more hard maths and cryptology and computers and turing and information theory in it than you can shake a cock at and with the added bonus that Stephenson both absolutely understands the material with an unheard of rigour, and can actually write an interesting, extremely lively, funny and generally readable narrative around it instead of it just being masturbation. Next time something like that comes up, you can bet your balls I'll vote for it.
