How bout this? 1- Email Haven 5 Titles by Teusday end of day. 2- Haven does a lottery thing and picks a title at random 3- Read the book...take it from there.
I asked my daughter (eight) and she said Nomar was smart. She says it is very good. Something about a magic mouse? She said she could put together a good list for you Nomar! How about Animal Farm? Anyone that can't read that is not really interested in the book club. Or Frank Zappa and the Negative Dialectic of Poodle Play? That's a little long though.
i dont want to read Animal Farm. in my freshman year of highschool i was supposed to read it, but i watch the cartoon insted. the cartoon sucked so i didnt even pay attention to it. George Orwell's 1984 was good.
Right now, we're reading "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Unless anyone has a different idea or objects... would that title be acceptable with everyone?
Are you making fun of me Hayes? Seriously fellas, the Redwall series is fantastic. Somebody out there back me up?!?
this thread needs to go back on top...if nothing is done by friday im going to go read the railroad book that Mrs. JB suggested...
I don't know if it's appropriate for this "club", but for all the SF nuts out there: Read the Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God series (actually 5 books in a single series) by Peter F. Hamilton. Absolutely, positively, 100%, no doubt the best damn sci-fi series I have ever read, bar none. And I have read all of the major ones... This is the best. Something unbelievable happens on a distant corporate colony planet, and the dead are coming back to life. Not just any dead either: Stalin, Al Capone, Hitler, Biblical prophets, entertainers, politicians of the ages - everyone who has ever died is coming back to life. The human race consults other longer-lived races and finds that every race faces this conflict at some point - and must answer the true questions of live, death, and God. Or be utterly destroyed, because the dead must reclaim living bodies in order to come back... And they cannot go back, because what lies in death is so unspeakably horrible that even the most peaceful in their former lives will kill to avoid going back to the Beyond... They come back with seemingly magical powers that Earth's best scientists can't figure out. And their goal is to appropriate more bodies, in order to make vessels for the souls in the Beyond that they feel an irresistable urge to release. To do so, they must kill every single human in the universe... It's a galactic clash that has deep philosophical implications, masterful action and interaction between characters, and happens to be very well written... Probably too much for a book of the month club (especially since it's a 5-book series), but I highly reccommend it to everyone who is a sci-fi nut.
How about Outrageous by Charles Barkley. It is out of print but I got a copy pretty easily off of Amazon.
How about our book club starts where all western books did...Homer's the Odyssey? Makes a great foundation for other reading.
my 9th-grade English classes are just starting it, so maybe they could join in with the Clutchcity book club. I'll give them 30 minutes each class period to log on and weigh in with their thoughts on Homer's epic. that could be entertaining.
*BUMP* Yes, thats it then, "Girl with a Pearl Earring" I'm going to the bookstop and buy it today, so don't change your mind people, dammit! ok, now the next question, are we reading one book per week or what?
i wont have time to pick up the earings book until this weekend...so should we have our first meeting on monday?
Probably a little less often than that. Don't know how much time everyone here has... or how much they like to read in their free time. As for the first discussion thread... I have no idea. I'm open to suggestions . I'll get the book and read it over my Spring Break (starts this coming Friday for me).
One week is too quick of a pace for me (I've been working a lot of night shifts lately). Also, different people read at different paces. So, instead of simply picking one book at a time, reading it, and then discussing it, why don't we just set up discussion times well in advance so people can read at their own pace? For example: March 1-7: "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - ??????? March 8-14: "The Call of the Wild" - Jack London March 15-21: "The Red Badge of Courage" - Stephen Crane March 22-30: "Foundation" - Isaac Asimov That way, if it takes you three weeks to read a book, you can just start with "The Red Badge of Courage" and be ready in time for the discussion on March 15th. Or, if you can read a book per week, you'll be able to read all of the books and take part in all the scheduled discussions. Or, maybe a bi-monthly schedule would be better: March 1-14: "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - ????? March 15-30: "Foundation" - Isaac Asimov The first two weeks of March, we discuss "Pearl Earring," and the last two weeks we discuss "Foundation." Good idea? Bad idea? Whatever we do, I think it is a good idea to pick the books well in advance so people don't miss out.
