Hektore

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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

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Grasshopper Green

This sounds like something I'd like to do if there was enough interest with some other members.

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snowy

If this is available from the public library, I'm in.

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Hektore

So, I was totally not in a decent enough spot to do this right last time so...

/bump

I'd like to see if I can get this running, rather than expect people to start tomorrow though, I'd like everyone who is even a teensy bit interested to post here and say so. Even if you're pretty sure that you won't do it, but kind of want to. Feel free to suggest books when post and I'll pick one from the list, perhaps we can start with one of the books from this thread

I actually have a copy of 1984 sitting on my shelf that I haven't read yet...just my suggestion.

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tasineah

I have always wanted to read the Screwtape Letters and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Pearl Trade

I'm interested in this, Hektore. If you could do an update of your orginal post, I'll seriously think about joining.

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Hectore,

I might be able to do something like this depending on time commitments. I've read Zen before, and also the sequel Lila but could always redo them as it's been several years, and wouldn't be against Dawkins our even Hitchens given his recent health troubles. I would also be down with discussions of A A Confederacy of Dunces by J.K Toole or Suttree by Cormac Mccarthy.So I'm not definitely in, but I'm one of those maybes...

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Hektore

I remade the OP to give a better idea of what is going on. Also, another source for finding books we might like to read:

The best five books on everything | FiveBooks

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Hektore

So the weekend is here. We'll start with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance unless there are any major objections. You have a week to track down the book and I'll start a thread on it (unless someone else comes in and says they would rather start it) the week after that. I'll be back after I track down a copy to figure out how to split it up.

So the first week of actual reading would begin 11/14 (US cal.).

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RogueGypsy

Doesn't look like there's much action in this thread, but I'm interested. I've always wanted to read Zen and just never got around to it.

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amonkie

I was actually looking at starting a physical reading club at my house based on the top 100-200 books lists

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...00-novels.html

and

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...-you-read.html


I missed the round for the Zen Motorcycle but I'd be up for a book for January.


Another suggestion might be from the Eye Opener's reading list, pick 1 book per month from a different category, so there is a little more variety in the types and might get a wider berth of folks.

A couple I've been eying that I'd like to get read sometime this year:

Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse 5
on the Road
Earthsea Trilogy

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