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10-24-2006, 09:42 AM
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| Kenneth Kaniff, professional molestor  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Connecticut
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| I'm not normally much of a reader, but in the past month I read: Marley and Me Digital Fotress Deception Point I thought those 3 books were pretty darn good, and I'm looking forward to reading this book of short stories a friend of mine has. When I remember the name, I'll come back and post it, but it's just something about the way the author writes that drew me in. |
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10-24-2006, 09:44 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002
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+4 Internets | I think he's proposing that the club would pick a book every month, and discuss it on the boards. Neat idea, but not something I'd participate in since I tend to be a binge reader. Nothing for months, then four books in three weeks, and so on. |
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10-24-2006, 11:02 AM
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| Productive, fully-charged, cocked and pointed  Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston
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+20 Internets   | sounds cool if there's some type of poll option beforehand to choose the book. it could be hard finding books here that people haven't read though. I like fantasy if its not cliche, and sci-fi if its original.
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10-24-2006, 11:05 AM
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| the illest motherfucker in a cardigan sweater  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The CT
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| i vote for non-fiction
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10-24-2006, 11:57 AM
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| vurtvertvirtvyrtvort  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: FSJ, BC
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| I'd be into that as long as I can get the book on tape. Books on my mp3 player are super fantastic. All the goodness of a book without any of the work. Absorbing knowledge while I'm walking somewhere? It's good stuff. |
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10-24-2006, 12:28 PM
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| Army Football forever!! Who needs wins, anyway?!? Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: PA
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| I would be in, I haven't gotten in enough reading that wasn't re-reads of George RR Martin lately. I pretty much enjoy reading anything that doesn't have Fabio on the cover. |
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10-24-2006, 02:53 PM
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| You deserve a break today.  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Maryland
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+1 Internets | I'd be interested. I love to read, but I never know what to read. I generally stick with classics (the type of stuff you read in college literature courses) or mainstream stuff like Harry Potter. It'd be a good way to expand my library. Just don't pick obscure books that you can only find in the must cellar of an old, corner bookstore. Amazon.com please  |
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10-24-2006, 11:03 PM
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| Romo is a manwhore  Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dallas, TX
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| I'll bite. I've been needing a reason to do some reading that wasn't WoW or medical terminology related. To choose the books I would set up a system of having the members of the club choose, with the stipulation that it can't be something that the people who are in the club will have likely read multiple times (Martin, Tolkein, King, etc). For the first month the OP could choose, then he could just randomly pick someone else for the next month, then that person would randomly pick a person for the third month, and so on. |
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10-25-2006, 05:02 AM
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+5 Internets | Seems like most of us are okay with sci-fi or fantasy. Let's try to stay away from really mainstream authors (Martin, Tolkein, King, etc), the idea of the club is to read something you normally wouldn't. Also the book should be the first book in a series (meaning not book 2 or 3). How do we want to handle discussion? I don't think setting a limit on how many chapters we can read would go well. |
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10-25-2006, 01:01 PM
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| Productive, fully-charged, cocked and pointed Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Houston
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+20 Internets | Avoid series imho. Need a book start to finish, that way if someone doesn't like it the next book they might. Or if its a series, make it a short series, like 3 relatively short books. Though I'd still stick to start to finish completed non-series books
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10-25-2006, 01:36 PM
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| Start taking nominations? Hard to find single fantasy novels but I'll try... "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson. Single fantasy novel, 600 pages abouts. Has gotten rave reviews for its "originallity" (Card among them). Kind of like Goodkind meets "Lord of the Flies" without all of Goodkind's bad points. It has the same theme but not the speeches. "Curse of Chalion" by Lois McMaster Bujold. Single fantasy novel, 500 pages. Hugo nominee. Its about this old soldier that takers over as a tutor for a princess and his efforts to protect her plots and counter plots. "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. WW2 meets high tech finance, code breaking, cyber punk. But gigantic at over 1000 pages. "Illium" and "Olympos" by Dan Simmons. A duology. Sci-fi. The Illiad in space apparently. Each about 700 pages. Some ideas, I'm sure others will have more.
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10-25-2006, 02:15 PM
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| Hmm I enjoyed Ilium and Olympos, till the underwhelming ending, but I preferred Simmons' Hyperion series myself. Both are excellent hard sci-fi. I'd nominate SPIN by Robert Charles Wilson, just won the Hugo, it is fucking awesome. |
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