ILB Summer Group read POLL

Open City. There's even an empty thread up & waiting: Teju Cole: Open City

i will read that book

but im also keen to hear how + why everyone hates the privileges so im kinda torn w/r/t my vote

lol

when would we start doing this? i was planning on starting to read either middlemarch or vanity fair sometime in the next week or two; i am not sure how this influences my voting decision

*Looks at calendar* end of June or thereabouts...

guys don't read mansfield park

Don't really think we need to do two contemporary New York set ones in a row, so that's Cole and Dee out...

Just made my choice. Hope there'll be quite a lot of votes and a choice for us all to get on with.

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i went with vanity fair

voted vanity fair, would revise my reading schedule to read it with others.

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Not published in the UK til August?

we can read vanity fair in the meantime, then

*sigh* I should look at things like publishing dates in future polls, looks like we'll have to push out the next group read till September time

It is gettable at least - I've got it on my shelf!

25 votes is excellent, btw.

should ada win by default?

no, because i meant to vote for vanity fair and then didn't. i think.

re-poll? I would've like to have nominated something else actually (but, the more we nominate, the less consensus we'll get, of course).
I'm not to psyched to read Vanity Fair. It's just looks ... long. Not saying long is bad, but it just means that I wouldn't have as much time to read other books I've planning to read.
Ada maybe, but it's not the first Nabakov on my to-read list (still haven't gotten to Pale Fire).

Can't Brits just source the book from the US? I've ordered books from US Amazon before without any problems. (Or has that changed?) And if you have a Kindle I've been told it's fairly easy to change your registered location so you can order from the US.

I'm sure I just got mine from UK amazon Used & New section - only difference was it took ten days or so to arrive.

Postage-free ordering with 22% discount (currently) from here: http://www.bookdepository.com/Open-City-Teju-Cole/9781400068098

Pleased about 25 votes - good core group.

re-poll? I would've like to have nominated something else actually (but, the more we nominate, the less consensus we'll get, of course).

I would always restrict to about 10 options, btw.

I order bks through my local library but I'll have a look at amazon in that case. Shouldn't postpone as it surely is quite easy to order. James - what's the '66 days to go' note about? Is it the time it would take between order and arrival?

Published on my bday so could get someone to buy this for me. :-)

the 66 days to go is when it actually comes out in the uk

Don't really think we need to do two contemporary New York set ones in a row, so that's Cole and Dee out...

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oh bah.

Don't mind that as NY stories don't interest me at all (apart from Hubrt Selby's Last Exit... ;-)), its the only way I'll read 'em.

ok, lets set it for June, w/c 27th if that's ok - guess uk-ers (includes me) can catch up if they can't do amazon. I'll watch out for publishing dates in future ones.

James - what's the '66 days to go' note about?

That's weird. Here it says 'Usually dispatched within 48 hours'

Like I said, mine took maybe ten days to arrive (sent by seller in the US iirc)