Book Club information & Reminder: Consider Phlebas & Nominate Books for December club
Jacob Send a noteboard - 02/09/2010 06:21:21 PM
Hello everyone,
Our next Official Book Club event is coming up on Monday, September 20th. We will be discussing Iain M. Banks' novel, Consider Phlebas, which was the very first of Banks' CULTURE novels. This is a sci-fi story that features a very interesting story as well as social and political elements that should generate a great discussion.
Legolas has posted his review of the book here. If you want to participate, and this is a good one so please participate, you'll want to get started reading the book soon. Hopefully, you are already a Banks fan, or will be intrigued by the review. Get the book and get started!
Second order of business:
It is time to start nominating books that you'd like to read for the December/January book club. Any book is open to being nominated, though we'd appreciate a lot of sci-fi & fantasy options. So reply to this thread with nominations (Title & Author please). The books with the most nominations will the final list that people can vote on.
So, if there is just something you'd love to read and discuss, or something you think others should really read and discuss it with you, now is your chance to let us know about it.
I'll leave the nomination thread open for a while, at least a week. If we have a lot of nominations at that point, I'll close it down. If not... shame on you all.
Our next Official Book Club event is coming up on Monday, September 20th. We will be discussing Iain M. Banks' novel, Consider Phlebas, which was the very first of Banks' CULTURE novels. This is a sci-fi story that features a very interesting story as well as social and political elements that should generate a great discussion.
Legolas has posted his review of the book here. If you want to participate, and this is a good one so please participate, you'll want to get started reading the book soon. Hopefully, you are already a Banks fan, or will be intrigued by the review. Get the book and get started!
Second order of business:
It is time to start nominating books that you'd like to read for the December/January book club. Any book is open to being nominated, though we'd appreciate a lot of sci-fi & fantasy options. So reply to this thread with nominations (Title & Author please). The books with the most nominations will the final list that people can vote on.
So, if there is just something you'd love to read and discuss, or something you think others should really read and discuss it with you, now is your chance to let us know about it.
I'll leave the nomination thread open for a while, at least a week. If we have a lot of nominations at that point, I'll close it down. If not... shame on you all.
This message last edited by Jacob on 10/09/2010 at 04:04:30 PM
Book Club information & Reminder: Consider Phlebas & Nominate Books for December club
- 02/09/2010 06:21:21 PM
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A few ideas...
- 02/09/2010 09:38:50 PM
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I'm surprised y'all haven't already posted a WoK discussion thread
- 02/09/2010 10:03:08 PM
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To be a bit unconventional, I nominate Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. *NM*
- 02/09/2010 11:22:55 PM
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Nothing wrong with unconventional! *NM*
- 02/09/2010 11:24:10 PM
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Except Brit comic novels don't seem to lend themselves well to discussions *NM*
- 02/09/2010 11:26:37 PM
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*NM*
- 02/09/2010 11:26:37 PM
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Well, I haven't read Dirk Gently yet (though I intend to). It's the principle of unconventionality..
- 02/09/2010 11:30:42 PM
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