Vote for May 2013 BOTM: Book & Film

[Polly Parrot]

These are the suggestions for May.

The poll will close in seven days.

 

[Polly Parrot]

Oooo we have a tie.

 

[pontalba]

/fingers crossed/
we have a few days.....
Someone else vote!!

 

[Polly Parrot]

This is not helping.

 

[Peder]

This is not helping.

Polly, a gift from Heaven!
I've been thinking about it and wish to withdraw my vote for Memento. I now think the film is much too complicated for discussion here. So, if I may, I unvote for Memento, but I don't care to vote for anything else either. Please count me out for this month.
Sorry
Peder

 

[pontalba]

Polly, a gift from Heaven!
I've been thinking about it and wish to withdraw my vote for Memento. I now think the film is much too complicated for discussion here. So, if I may, I unvote for Memento, but I don't care to vote for anything else either. Please count me out for this month.
Sorry
Peder

I think Peder has an excellent point.
Please remove my vote as well.
Thanks.

 

[Polly Parrot]

Aww. There is no need for the both of you to bow out of next month's discussion or to withdraw your vote. :-(

 

[sparkchaser]

"too complicated"?

 

[Peder]

"too complicated"?

Well, until something else comes along, yes, the movie Memento is my definition of complicated. To say more would immediately get into spoilers.

Is there something more complicated?

 

[Peder]

Aww. There is no need for the both of you to bow out of next month's discussion or to withdraw your vote. :-(

Thanks Polly, but it wasn't only to break the tie. Memento is one of my favorite movies that I can watch over and over again, (and I have to, in order to unravel it ) Which is why I voted for it. But now that I think more carefully about the complicated and time consuming discussion it might well lead to -- and should -- I also realize (yet again) that I am trying to shift time into my real life away from online, and that a Memento discussion is probably a very good thing for me to avoid. It is up to you whether, or how, you allow this to affect the vote, but whichever way, people who wish to can certainly watch the movie and/or read the short story on their own and post and discuss in an appropriate thread. So, I hope I am not curtailing anyone else's pleasure. The movie is a real trip.

 

[pontalba]

Aww. There is no need for the both of you to bow out of next month's discussion or to withdraw your vote. :-(

I know. That is kind of you. But that is what I want to do.

 

[Meadow337]

Here is my dilemma - I wanted to do The Invention of Hugo but can't find a copy, although I have the movie, so I voted for Memento Mori which sounds interesting, but I can't find a copy of that either which I thought broke the impasse, but apparently it didn't.

Do we need to try again with a new list? Perhaps one that more (hopefully please) will be interested in discussing *hopeful smile*

 

[Polly Parrot]

I think I will go ahead with The Help for May's discussion. I don't see the point in asking for new suggestions at this point. I will, however, create a thread to get suggesting & voting for June done nice and early so the schedule will be back to normal, leaving plenty of time for everyone to get the book and read it.

 

[Meadow337]

Well that's good too. I have both book and movie - just wasn't sure I wanted to discuss it

 

[Polly Parrot]

Well, seeing as it is the one with the most votes besides Memento and two of the four people who voted for Memento have respectfully withdrawn themselves from the discussion, it would only make sense to opt for The Help, instead. Unless, of course, we will get five votes for any of the other options before the poll closes the day after tomorrow.

 

[Meadow337]

Nothing wrong with discussing The Help and with two weeks to go I might motivate myself to read the book. I have only seen the movie once so can't remember all the details.

 

[Polly Parrot]

I'll read it too. I'll just have to get the book first.