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Book Club; A club for books!
Topic Started: Dec 20 2008, 11:00 PM (614 Views)
Lusa	Dec 20 2008, 11:00 PM Post #1
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Ok, so this was an idea I had and I got the go from our fearless leader to run this so I'm going to! (Fasten your seat belts!) I was hoping we could get it organized in time to start in January with the new year and all but first we have to figure out how its going to work and for that I need you! Basically my scheme was that everyone who wants to be involved chooses a book and then we put them all in a hat and draw them to decide what order everything is read in. We can all discuss general bs about it and the person who nominated it could maybe come up with a few general discussion questions like "Do you think Jacen Solo's descent to the dark side is a metaphore for contemporary American politics? Discuss." (They don't have to be that deep. I just wanted to sound pretentious.) So basically I want to know if you guys have ideas for how to improve this or change it up to make it awesome! Also, we need to decide how much time we give each book. Like, a month seems like it would make sense but everyone is busy and stuff comes up plus people need time to get the books from the library or the store or paperbackswap.com or whatever so maybe we need more time. A month and a half? Two months? Something else? Have at it! Edit: I went on random.org and put in what we have so far to create a schedule! Book Schedule January Prey by Michael Crichton Febuary Rhapsody by Elizabeth Haydon March Sphere by Michael Crichton April The Long Walk by Stephen King May Nightlife by Rob Thurman Edited by Lusa, Dec 30 2008, 04:45 PM.
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Mara	Dec 22 2008, 05:17 PM Post #2
the one and only Posts: 851 Group: Members Member #323 Joined: March 23, 2007	That sounds good, to just put a bunch of books in a hat. And a month is good for me, but if most of you need more time, I'm good for that, too. As for some ideas: do you want ideas of books we have already read and liked, or maybe a book we haven't read but are planning to? I mean, do you want the discusser to have previously read the discussed book? If that makes sense.
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Mara	Dec 22 2008, 05:17 PM Post #3
the one and only Posts: 851 Group: Members Member #323 Joined: March 23, 2007	oops, double post. :/ Edited by Mara, Dec 22 2008, 05:17 PM.
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Lusa	Dec 22 2008, 10:17 PM Post #4
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Yeah I was thinking it might work if everyone who wants to participate throws in a book they have already read and enjoyed. That way everyone gets to share their fandoms and we're not just randomly picking stuff, you know?
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Tenel Ka	Dec 22 2008, 11:17 PM Post #5
WHAT'DYOO DO TO YER LEG, STU? Posts: 5,861 Group: Admin t(-.-)t Member #1 Joined: March 1, 2004	LOL I BET EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT BOOK I WOULD PICK. EXCEPT LIKE HALF OF YOU HAVE READ IT ALREADY.
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Aphy	Dec 23 2008, 10:01 AM Post #6
He has come to open the purple testament of a bleeding war. Posts: 611 Group: Members Member #65 Joined: January 3, 2005	Tenel Ka Dec 22 2008, 11:17 PM LOL I BET EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT BOOK I WOULD PICK. EXCEPT LIKE HALF OF YOU HAVE READ IT ALREADY. But have we discussed it yet? I like this idea with the hat. And a month is good for me too!
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Lusa	Dec 23 2008, 11:01 AM Post #7
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Alright then! Lets call it a month and if that doesn't work out we can change it later. OK SO EVERYONE NOMINATE A BOOK! 1..2..3.. GO!
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Zhymmia Jansen	Dec 23 2008, 01:13 PM Post #8
I have the Force! Touch me! Posts: 166 Group: Members Member #308 Joined: March 3, 2007	Alrighty then. I'd like to nominate Nightlife by Rob Thurman.
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Mara	Dec 23 2008, 04:56 PM Post #9
the one and only Posts: 851 Group: Members Member #323 Joined: March 23, 2007	Lusa Dec 22 2008, 10:17 PM Yeah I was thinking it might work if everyone who wants to participate throws in a book they have already read and enjoyed. That way everyone gets to share their fandoms and we're not just randomly picking stuff, you know? Yep, makes sense. Just anything, or shall we try to pick something that would be interesting to discuss, and not just any book we liked reading? For now, I think I'll nominate Prey and Sphere by Michael Crichton. (Hope not too many of you have seen the film version of the latter). It's hard to choose, since so many of my current faves are part of series, lol.
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Lusa	Dec 29 2008, 11:04 PM Post #10
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	NOMINATE MORE BOOKS PEOPLE! <3
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Tenel Ka	Dec 29 2008, 11:38 PM Post #11
WHAT'DYOO DO TO YER LEG, STU? Posts: 5,861 Group: Admin t(-.-)t Member #1 Joined: March 1, 2004	LOL THE LONG WALK BY STEPHEN KING. I don't know how often I will be able to participate since it takes me forever to read books, but if stuff comes up that I've read then I WILL DEFINITELY HELP DISCUSS LOL.
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Lusa	Dec 30 2008, 11:14 AM Post #12
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Hahahaha, we will totally include it anyways even if you never have time for discussions because that book is awesome!
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Lusa	Dec 30 2008, 04:42 PM Post #13
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Ok I went and randomized the list of what he have so far, which isn't much and am putting it in the first post on this thread. Hopefully more people will be interested but anyways this is the order so far!
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Mara	Dec 30 2008, 06:42 PM Post #14
the one and only Posts: 851 Group: Members Member #323 Joined: March 23, 2007	Woo! So will we be starting ze reading first of the year?
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Lusa	Dec 30 2008, 10:41 PM Post #15
Chocolate Brown Posts: 2,112 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 28, 2004	Yes we shall! Do you guys think it would work better to have the month like dedicated to reading and then the second month we would be reading the next book but also discussing book number one, or just have the entire month dedicated to a sort of running commentary of where we are/what's going on, etc?
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