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rabite gets whacked!
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 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject: SelectBook: the SB book club (now with poll) |
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As suggested by Capt. Caveman in the lit. thread, I think a selectbutton book club is long overdue, so let's start one immediately. I'd suggest something sci-fi (or Lolita), as those seem to sustain the most literary discussion around here. So who and what? Let's get nominations, then I'll turn it into a poll.
I'll nominate Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer, cause shrugtheironteacup called Wolfe one of his favorite writers and I've never read him, so I picked it up yesterday (it's in the "Shadow & Claw" volume, along with the second novel in the Book of the New Sun tetralogy).
EDIT: Poll added
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:59 pm |
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| Wilkes wrote: |
I would reread lolita, sure.
I might do this, provided we kept the sci fi to a BARE MINIMUM YOU GODDAMN KIDS. |
I was thinking the same, but I figured starting with sci fi would get the best response. And there's good sci fi too you goddamn wilkes. Look at Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, for instance!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:06 pm |
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| Wilkes wrote: |
| rabite gets whacked! wrote: |
| Wilkes wrote: |
I would reread lolita, sure.
I might do this, provided we kept the sci fi to a BARE MINIMUM YOU GODDAMN KIDS. |
I was thinking the same, but I figured starting with sci fi would get the best response. And there's good sci fi too you goddamn wilkes. Look at Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, for instance! |
I'm as open to the idea that good sci fi exists as I am that most sci fi is just made up crap social commentary. |
On this we agree!
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:20 am |
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| Predator Goose wrote: |
| Might I make a suggestion? It might get a little messy, but start up a separate poll thread for deciding which book to read. Then come back to this thread or another one to actually discuss it. |
I was going to use this thread for deliberation, then start a new one for the each book that gets picked. So tomorrow night (Friday) I'll put up a poll here, inclusive of the nominations that have been seconded by then.
Nominations affirmed:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (nom. by Wilkes)
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (nom. by digi)
Nominations waiting to be seconded:
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (nom. by me)
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K.Le Guin (nom. by toptube)
The Revenants by Sheri S. Tepper (out of print, nom. by toptube)
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe (nom. by Machine Gun Heart)
How We Are Hungry by David Eggers (nom. by Machine Gun Heart)
Night on the Milky Way Express by Kenji Miyazwa (nom. by Machine Gun Heart).
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs (nom. by Joe)
Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky (nom. by digi)
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme (nom. by Ethoscapade)
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| The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories", because collections of stories are sure to lead to poor and scattershot discussion. (?) |
Right. I'd say short stories are great, but let's just limit it to 3-5 stories from the collection to focus the discussion, and give it a shorter reading period. Sound good? So consider these nominated, and dark steve and shrug can pick out particular pieces to focus on in the mean time.
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rabite gets whacked!
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:09 am |
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| Baron Patsy wrote: |
Seconding the Gene Wolfe.
I might actually participate in this! |
Just to clarify: the short stories or the novel?
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:06 pm |
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Poll's up, go vote.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:59 pm |
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This is getting absurd. I'm calling it for Notes from Underground, because it's shorter and I'd like to get things started while interest is still high. We'll do Lolita next though.
New thread for Notes from Underground discussion
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