Real Life Book Club (1 Viewer)

[Denny Oubidoux]

a barcode scanner would be handy for scanning in ISBNs and fun too.

 

[timbot]

that would be the helliconia trilogy. very untypical of his work and my least favorite by far (although the second one wasnt bad really, it at least had a decent enough plot...). those were very run-of-the-mill sci-fi fantasy with none of the style and wit of his good books. it was almost as if he wanted to write a bog standard sci-fi book. his good ones are funny and witty and some times the plots seem unimportant. theyre not all sci-fi either. good ones include The Malacia Tapestry, Frankenstein Unbound, The Horatio Stubbs Saga (very saucy), Forgotten Life, Remembrance Day, Somewhere East Of Life, loads of them are good. Im obsessed with him at the moment

Thanks Shane! Brilliant, I will pick something up at the weekend.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Book Club ist kaput, ja?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

there may or may not be a james herbert one going - see the james herbert thread. some of them are reading The Fog.

 

[Squiggle]

We could try to get it back up and running, maybe.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i'm in. i've nothing but time at the moment

 

[Squiggle]

Aren't you in London Hen Pest? Might make coming to the discussion get togethers a bit tricky... maybe you could join us by SKYPE or something

 

[David Kronenbourg]

oh, it's a meet and discuss? i see. i thought the discussions were online. nevermind so

 

[ann post]

how's this coming along then?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Who is Hen Pest?

 

[jonah]

I wouldn't mind doing it!

 

[shin shan]

reckon i'd be into it too, but seems to be a bit dead-
anyone intersted in resurrecting it?

 

[Lili Marlene]

As an inbetween kind of thing maybe we should do something along the lines of 26books? It's not quite real-life but it's not just a thread on teh tumped

http://www.26books.com/about/http://www.26books.com/

plus I wouldn't have to actually meet any of the pricks on here face to face.

pricks.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

you could have a book club here couldnt you, no need to bring the real world in to it.

im on number 10 so far this year, i abandoned a couple more. stupid internet

 

[rettucs]

how does it work? Everyone reads the same book and then has chats about it?

Is there a time limit?

I don't know how many I've read this year. A good few. But I get through books slowly enough when I'm at home (as opposed to travelling or whatever).

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I don't know how many I've read this year.

goodreads is useful for accurately monitoring this kind of thing

 

[rettucs]

goodreads is useful for accurately monitoring this kind of thing

that looks good. I signed up and am adding books. But I can't remember most of the books I read. I suppose it'll come to me eventually.

 

[Lili Marlene]

how does it work? Everyone reads the same book and then has chats about it?

I believe everyone reads different books and then reviews them and all the reviews are put together in the same place (a website I suppose). Although this could be altered to be the same books if people so wished it

Is there a time limit?

26 a year, so one every 2 weeks or be a miserable failure

I don't know how many I've read this year. A good few. But I get through books slowly enough when I'm at home (as opposed to travelling or whatever).

try harder.

 

[jonah]

I did the 28 books in 14 weeks last summer, it was fabulous, I got through quite a bit more in the end.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Yeah, everyone loves a high achiever