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Just a quick aside. For anyone who enjoyed Only Forward, MMS has written some other stuff, one of which I can highly recommend by the name of Spares.

Okay the votes are in, and totalled ...

It's a tie.

Lamb and Only Forward each have three votes for number 1 pick.

The tension mounts, as the individual weighted calculations are done for each book ...

Snow in August ... 15

Lamb ... 16

Only Forward ... 17

So, the Book of the Month for May shall be Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

Got mine yesterday at ye olde used book store down the street from my house for a mere $3.25.

I was already pumped about reading the book (my first choice) then I saw that the cover has a great review blurb from one of my favorite authors, Clive Barker. WooHoo!

I read Only Forward a few years ago at my brother's suggestion....Every so often it sends a little shiver down your spine.....in a lyrical sort of a way.

Damn. I guess I have to change the name of my manuscript.
It was "Brave Cowboy Ghost Soldiers Deliver Us From Evil". Now, I don't know what to call it...

Damn. I guess I have to change the name of my manuscript. It was "Brave Cowboy Ghost Soldiers Deliver Us From Evil". Now, I don't know what to call it...

Its time to get started with June's book of the month.

So, here goes, the next chooser is going to be Beestie!

Beestie, find us something good to read!

edit: typos

Fantastic. When are the selections due?

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Originally posted by Clodfobble
Eh... 24th or so.

???

Clodfobble, we need about a week to vote and a week to order the books.

Beestie, could you have three choices by the 19th (wednesday)? If you think you need more time, just say so, I don't think it's a big deal.

Oops, you're right, the 24th was when the votes were supposed to be tallied and the winner declared. I smoke crack.

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Beestie, could you have three choices by the 19th (wednesday)?

Will do. Two down - closing in on the third. Choosing three books is harder than it looks.

It occurred to me after I posted about time travel on the philosphy forum, theres an amazing book which plays with that theme a little. If you guys havent read it yet it's a very strange book. "Behold the Man" by Michael Moorcock. Basic run down;a chap goes back in time to see who/what Jesus really was.....I'll not tell you any more just in case any of you want to read it, wouldnt want to spoil the plot:P

June picks are up

Here are the selections for June. Choose 2. Choice 1 gets 2 points and choice 2 gets one point. Most points wins. I'll break a tie. Polls close Monday morning (May 24th) at noon GMT.

Imajica by Clive Barker
Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Quote:

There has never been a book like Imajica. Transforming every expectation of fantasy fiction with its heady mingling of radical sexuality and spiritual anarchy, it has carried its millions of readers into regions of passion and philosophy that few books have even attempted to map. It's an epic in everyway; vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. A book of erotic mysteries and perverse violence. A book of ancient, mythological landscapes and even more ancient magic.

Gates of Fire by Stephen Pressfield
Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Quote:

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. From the start, there was no question but that the Spartans would perish. In Gates of Fire, however, Steven Pressfield makes their courageous defense--and eventual extinction--unbearably suspenseful.

Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Quote:

Published in 1978, The Snow Leopard is rightly regarded as a classic of modern nature writing. Guiding his readers through steep-walled canyons and over tall mountains, Matthiessen offers a narrative that is shot through with metaphor and mysticism, and his arduous search for the snow leopard becomes a vehicle for reflections on all manner of matters of life and death. In the process, The Snow Leopard evolves from an already exquisite book of natural history and travel into a grand, Buddhist-tinged parable of our search for meaning. By the end of their expedition, having seen wolves, foxes, rare mountain sheep, and other denizens of the Himalayas, and having seen many signs of the snow leopard but not the cat itself, Schaller muses, "We've seen so much, maybe it's better if there are some things that we don't see."

DAMN YOU BEESTIE!

they ALL look great.

hmmmmm....

1. Gates of Fire

2. Imajica

...i guess.