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Hektore · 03-22-2008, 11:25 AM

//Edit 2

As per request (a most excellent and fair request) I'm going to fix the OP a bit.

My idea is a book of the month type book club wherein we choose and read a book together with discussion along the way. I think a book a month would be pretty fair pace. Right now I'm thinking if we can choose a book by the end of this week, we can start it the end of next week (first official week of reading would be November 14-20). Is a week a fair amount of time to find a specific book? I suppose if you lose a few days you can always catch up.

On choosing the next book we would choose by the end of the third week, giving everyone the fourth week/end of the month to obtain it and be ready for the next cycle. If that sounds fair and you are even considering participating, kindly post in the thread to say so and leave a suggestion for books to read. Feel free to post suggestions for flow and organization of the group as well.

Please read other peoples suggestions and comment on them. If we get 20 people posting 5 different books - and no one mentioning anything else - we essentially have 100 books with one vote and no reasonable way to choose between them. The direction here will be much less subject to whims and fancies if you all can read/support/negate each others suggestions. Also, full titles and authors to help eliminate confusion.

Suggestions so far (I will try to update this frequently at first, as well as keep it alphabetical by title)

First of all everything in here.

Also:

1984 by George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces by J.K Toole
Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig

03-22-2008, 11:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
Hektore Junkie Location: Greater Harrisburg Area	The Other TFP Book Club //Edit 2 As per request (a most excellent and fair request) I'm going to fix the OP a bit. My idea is a book of the month type book club wherein we choose and read a book together with discussion along the way. I think a book a month would be pretty fair pace. Right now I'm thinking if we can choose a book by the end of this week, we can start it the end of next week (first official week of reading would be November 14-20). Is a week a fair amount of time to find a specific book? I suppose if you lose a few days you can always catch up. On choosing the next book we would choose by the end of the third week, giving everyone the fourth week/end of the month to obtain it and be ready for the next cycle. If that sounds fair and you are even considering participating, kindly post in the thread to say so and leave a suggestion for books to read. Feel free to post suggestions for flow and organization of the group as well. Please read other peoples suggestions and comment on them. If we get 20 people posting 5 different books - and no one mentioning anything else - we essentially have 100 books with one vote and no reasonable way to choose between them. The direction here will be much less subject to whims and fancies if you all can read/support/negate each others suggestions. Also, full titles and authors to help eliminate confusion. Suggestions so far (I will try to update this frequently at first, as well as keep it alphabetical by title) First of all everything in here. Also: 1984 by George Orwell A Confederacy of Dunces by J.K Toole Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig __________________ The advantage law is the best law in rugby, because it lets you ignore all the others for the good of the game. Last edited by Hektore; 10-31-2010 at 05:27 PM..