Start Up Polemic Book Club?

[Enit]

Suggestion for a forum,

How about an Official Temple of Polemic Book Club!
How awesome would that be?

And you can make me moderator, if there is such a thing... since I'm uh.... awesome, and Head Librarian of Wtaerfall City...

Just a suggestion...

Bask in the Glory That is I!
BD SP

~Enit

[Vorchia]

Good idea, the book club that is. Feel free to start one, here's the T of P's 20th board, just for a book club.
How does a bookclub work anyway? I've never been in one. But it might be a lot of fun as the board IS full of bookworms it seems.

[aric]

I got tons of science fiction titles for consideration.

- Aric

[Enit]

Well that was quick!!

Haha, Thanks Vorch!!! Mega Karma points Pour Toi... What are Karma points for anyways? And if I smite someone do they die?

So where to begin? Probably with picking a good book!!
So If anyone has a book they've been dying to read, and need a good excuse, post it!

Also do we want to read a variaty of genres? or just one partiular one? Should we read classics? Or rther abscure but awesome titles? Should we wing the entire thing?

BD SP

~Enit

[Vorchia]

Oh yes, they die terrible deaths upon being smithen below the zero line you know... I'm kidding, read the FAQ.
Whohoo, 20 karma points! I'm going to start growing an ego or something one of these days! ;D
I think we could take something of any genre, literature or not, just as long as it NOT one of those 13 in a dozen mind-rotting sappy romances where all that changes between two books are the names.
I think we already have quite a lot of possibilities if only you'd look at the sheer numbers of books mentioned in the book sale thread, except that those are mostly Science Fiction, maybe it'd be fun to one or two book suggestions of another genre?
I think we should just all pick one or two or three books we like or think are really important so we may compile a good list then vote on what we will read.

[messengerbird301]

Sounds fun to me. I guess this would give me a good reason to go to my local library.

[Enit]

Currently I'm reading the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov, and the Dune Series by Frank Herbert, and lined up is a series of novels by Edward Rutherfurd... I'm open to reading jut about anything... though hardcore science fiction tends to bore me... (No Offense!!)

BD SP

~Enit

[Vorchia]

I'm still reading 'War of the Worlds', I might finish today.
Dune has been recommended to me before but I haven't read it yet...
I just try to read at many classics and recommended ooks as I may, to help me with my english.
That and some books just plain can't be translated right, like Tolkien's. The Dutch version of the Silmarillion is a notorious local example of how to kill a book in translation...
Which books are considered 'hardcore science fiction' anyway? Asimov's books?
I know I won't voluntarily pick op any of Jean Auel's books again though. I read the first book, 'Clan of the Cave Bear', after it had been recommended to me by so many people over the course of some odd seven years I decided to give it a chance. It shan't have a second one, it is the first book ever to have made me nauseous from reading it.
I'm going to wait for more people's suggestions for books before I make poll, maybe post at the OMB too...

bdsp Vorchia

[Enit]

I guess "hardcore science fiction" isn't the right phrase... what I meant was that I'm not into science fiction that involves loads of technical details... I'm reading more for the story, not the "science," though if it adds to the plot I'll tolerate it...

I read "War of the Worlds" a little while back, it wasn't quite what I expected but I enjoyed it anyhow, and would recommend it to everyone...


For lack of something better to do, I'm going to research the "must reads" of the english language and post a list of them, see if anyone wants to read those...

BD SP

~Enit

[Highsoar]

Besides yet another Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel, Heat, there's another series I've just gotten into lately although I've already read the first six books of the original series. It's called Warriors by Erin Hunter (well two authors actually, they use one name to avoid confusing readers)

It chronicles the journey of an ordinary cat from housepet Rusty to Firestar, leader of Thunderclan, one of four forest clans of wild cats. (Thunderclan, Riverclan, Windclan and Shadowclan) He is the fufillment of a prophecy given the clan in a dream from their ancestors, Starclan. "Fire alone can save our clan"

The first six are Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, Forest of Secrets, A Dangerous Path, Rising Storm and Darkest Hour. I haven't started the second series, Warriors: The New Prophecy, yet, from the ending someone said the first book had, I wanna wait to read the second as well so I don't have to wait. So far, Midnight, Moonlight and Dawn are the one current and two forthcoming books in that series.

You know now that I think about it the cat clans might remind me just a bit of basin carnosaur clans...loyal to their Warrior Code and their clans, seemingly sort of savage to outsiders and they look down on being civilized, or 'kittypets'.

[Vorchia]

I think this is where the BBC big read comes in. I watched some of it as it was on TV in 2003 and I copied its book lists for my own 'must read' list. My list is that one, plus a few other recommendations and a few Dutch books.
Don't ask me how in hell 'Pride and Prejudice' ended up on the second place . Really, I TRIED to read that and gave up after one page. lol
'famous' books I have already read (not all from the list):
LOTR, Hobbit, Silmarillion and the Lost Tales by J.R.R Tolkien.
Nineteeneightyfour by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by JK Rowling
(Does she know 'JK' is 'just kidding' on the net??)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the looking glass by Lewis Caroll
Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl
Matilda by Roald Dahl
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Clan Of The Cave Bear by Jean M Auel (This is the only book on the list I would recommended for lighting the BBQ with)
The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
(Ok, I read a book which had ALL the Sherlock Holmes stories...)
The Lost world by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The andromeda crisis by Michael Crichton
The War Of The Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (Bad but not as bas as Auel.)
20.000 leages under the Sea by Jules Verne
Gulliver's travels (Ok I read half of that but was fun and I need to pick it up again)
Oh yes, I also read a bunch of the Dragonrider's of Pern books by Anne mc Caffery as well as some of the Animorphs books by an author I don't remember.
I want to read The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy but its hard to get.
I'll just make a 'must read' thread. then we can all add to it and make a pick.