Round 5: Positions 31 to 36

[Jean]

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[Jean]

have voted everything except ASoIaF

[Shannon]

Les Miserables --the unabridged version-- was hard work. There were blocks of pages just describing the history of places and people the main characters come across. The main narrative was amazing, and the characters themselves were incredibly fleshed out. When I got done with the book, I felt like I had accomplished something. :)

[Jean]

that sounds very true to bears! Luckily, I read it first when I was very young (about 9, maybe 10 years old), and at that time one takes literature, especially style, for granted; if the first time had been later, I don't know if I could have made it through this whale. The same with Notre-Dame de Paris. And when I re-read them, it was in French, and again, the fascination of reading in a foreign language I didn't know 100% well at that time overweighed the horrible effort the reading took at places

[mae]

Just Andromeda and Les Mis for me.

[Jean]

special thanks for Andromeda!

[Jon]

Verne captured my imagination when I was a young boy...he has yet to return it.

[Jean]

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/bear_grin.gif (http://s91.photobucket.com/user/mishemplushem/media/Facilitation/bear_grin.gif.html)

[stroppygoblin]

doh! missed the fact I could vote for more than one :(

[Jean]

I see that you have voted for Frankenstein

I can add your other votes manually. I don't know how it will appear in this type of poll, but I can at least try if you tell me what they are

[stroppygoblin]

Thanks Jean.

All but ASoIaF and Les Mis. I haven't read the first (yet) and much as I love the musical, I found Les Miserables very heavy going. The overall story is great but the books prose is a little too much 'picture painting' for my tastes.

[Jean]

I have added your votes, but can't make your name appear under them (except Frankenstein); we'll just have to remember that you voted for those.

[Fall of Gilead]

ASOIAF is treated as one entry?

[Jean]

yes!! the long discussion is in this thread (http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?17542-Top-100-Novels-of-All-Time-General-Discussion)

[Mattrick]

I have read none of these.

[Jean]

I am happy to see Crichton doing so well here!

[Jean]

20 people have voted

I am thinking of closing this poll tomorrow, if there are no objections

[Jean]

grrr the situation has just got worse

we don't really want a 3-option tiebreaker

I'll leave the post for a few hours, hoping someone else will vote and make it easier

[Jean]

ok, the poll is closed with one tiebreaker!