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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. :P
This message last edited by Jacob on 10/09/2010 at 04:04:30 PM
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Book Club information & Reminder: Consider Phlebas & Nominate Books for December club - 02/09/2010 06:21:21 PM 2018 Views
I'm about to start reading Brian Aldiss's Helliconia omnibus - 02/09/2010 06:45:18 PM 1295 Views
A few ideas... - 02/09/2010 09:38:50 PM 1211 Views
I'm surprised y'all haven't already posted a WoK discussion thread - 02/09/2010 10:03:08 PM 1166 Views
True, we might as well start one now. - 02/09/2010 10:23:49 PM 1184 Views
Remember those Erikson threads from years past? - 02/09/2010 11:09:21 PM 1223 Views
And a few more ideas. - 08/09/2010 03:31:25 PM 1196 Views
Re: And a few more ideas. - 13/09/2010 01:21:19 PM 1199 Views
To be a bit unconventional, I nominate Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. *NM* - 02/09/2010 11:22:55 PM 587 Views
Nothing wrong with unconventional! *NM* - 02/09/2010 11:24:10 PM 606 Views
Except Brit comic novels don't seem to lend themselves well to discussions *NM* - 02/09/2010 11:26:37 PM 603 Views
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 1150 Views
I know - 02/09/2010 11:58:02 PM 1196 Views
Why not? *NM* - 08/09/2010 04:13:43 PM 620 Views
Here are a few ideas: - 08/09/2010 03:55:50 PM 1156 Views
Byatt's The Children's Book - 08/09/2010 04:15:23 PM 1113 Views
I would second Warbreaker - 10/09/2010 04:19:49 AM 1194 Views
Gormenghast! SECONDED! - 13/09/2010 01:15:25 PM 1193 Views
How about Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut? - 19/09/2010 01:18:35 PM 1198 Views

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