November Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club: submissions ended! ... New new edit on 18/10/2009
Rebekah Send a noteboard - 08/10/2009 06:56:01 PM
Hi Rafonauts
Edit 18/10: Right. That's that. Thanks very much for all of your submissions.
Will get a Quickpoll up tomorrow, so watch out for that and vote!
Cheers,
Rebekah
It's time to organise our first Read and Find Out Book Club!
Make suggestions here for what you think we should read for November. Remember that it should be something that people are able to get their hands on and it shouldn't cost the earth.
We'll take submissions until Friday next week (midnight RAFO time) and then run a Quick Poll on it the Monday following (that's 19 October). Hopefully we'll be able to run that for more than one day but we'll see.
We'll let you know the final choice on Thursday 22 October and then you'll have nearly a month to get reading - loads of time!
The Book Club will officially open on Monday 16 November, barring some kind of world catastrophe and/or Armageddon.
Thanks.
EDIT: As it stands, these are the recommendations we have so far. (I'm not going to include Other Literature this time, but will remember your suggestions for the next Book Club.) Feel free to make more suggestions, or add your agreement to one already there. You've still got 3 days to make submissions.
- The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway x3
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss x2
- Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Graeme-Smith
- The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
- A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
- Acacia: The War with the Mien by David Anthony Durham
Edit 18/10: Right. That's that. Thanks very much for all of your submissions.
Will get a Quickpoll up tomorrow, so watch out for that and vote!
Cheers,
Rebekah
It's time to organise our first Read and Find Out Book Club!
Make suggestions here for what you think we should read for November. Remember that it should be something that people are able to get their hands on and it shouldn't cost the earth.
We'll take submissions until Friday next week (midnight RAFO time) and then run a Quick Poll on it the Monday following (that's 19 October). Hopefully we'll be able to run that for more than one day but we'll see.
We'll let you know the final choice on Thursday 22 October and then you'll have nearly a month to get reading - loads of time!
The Book Club will officially open on Monday 16 November, barring some kind of world catastrophe and/or Armageddon.
Thanks.
EDIT: As it stands, these are the recommendations we have so far. (I'm not going to include Other Literature this time, but will remember your suggestions for the next Book Club.) Feel free to make more suggestions, or add your agreement to one already there. You've still got 3 days to make submissions.
- The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway x3
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss x2
- Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Graeme-Smith
- The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
- A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
- Acacia: The War with the Mien by David Anthony Durham
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
This message last edited by Jacob on 19/10/2009 at 03:38:49 PM
November Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Club: submissions ended! ... New new edit on 18/10/2009
08/10/2009 06:56:01 PM
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Nabokov's The Original of Laura
08/10/2009 08:19:01 PM
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I'd love that.
08/10/2009 08:25:39 PM
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Well, we could always discuss Nabokov in December.
08/10/2009 11:18:57 PM
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I'd be up for reading Doctor Zhivago.
08/10/2009 10:08:09 PM
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yeah, me too. only need to find it in a library near me. *NM*
08/10/2009 10:09:32 PM
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Don't be cheap. Buy it.
08/10/2009 11:16:18 PM
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Well, I would, but I don't like online bookstores.
09/10/2009 01:19:19 AM
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Well, but you just said you didn't know if you could find it in the library.
09/10/2009 02:07:54 AM
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AS Byatt - Possession.
08/10/2009 10:21:39 PM
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i loved that book!!! she is amazing. just wonderful writing... *NM*
13/10/2009 08:44:59 PM
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How about a classic novel?
08/10/2009 11:30:31 PM
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You have a very strange definition of classics... *NM*
09/10/2009 01:20:37 AM
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Replace "strange" with "erroneous" and I'll agree with you.
09/10/2009 02:09:27 AM
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Really?
09/10/2009 03:08:53 AM
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for classic science fiction, your list contained one I could support...
09/10/2009 11:06:34 AM
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You said "classic novel". Science fiction doesn't generally meet that standard.
09/10/2009 02:52:01 PM
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I like your list.
09/10/2009 03:02:09 PM
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I think if you're gonna do Eco, picking another book to start with would be wiser... *NM*
09/10/2009 03:28:50 PM
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And what book would that be???
09/10/2009 03:47:49 PM
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Foucault's Pendulum seems like the obvious one.
09/10/2009 03:58:37 PM
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Based on past experiences here and elsewhere, it'll be hard to choose the "right" book
09/10/2009 02:46:22 AM
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That Hitchhiker book is as genuine as the "new" Winnie-the-Pooh book
09/10/2009 02:54:23 PM
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Perhaps, but it's worth remembering that...
09/10/2009 03:45:53 PM
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Adams killed Arthur Dent for a reason
09/10/2009 05:02:23 PM
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The movie was not faithful to the books in any meaningful way. *NM*
09/10/2009 08:58:01 PM
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The movie sucked, yes. Adams had also been dead for four years when it came out. *NM*
10/10/2009 02:19:38 AM
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Right.
10/10/2009 02:37:08 AM
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One little thing
10/10/2009 02:39:01 AM
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Perhaps
09/10/2009 06:08:17 PM
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So on Monday we'll find out if the widow's cash need resulted in a good book.
10/10/2009 04:21:22 AM
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A question for you all.
09/10/2009 03:04:17 PM
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You didn't mention the rapture! If that happens, will the club still be on? *NM*
11/10/2009 07:51:59 AM
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I'd say yes. Pretty sure the people here will be Left Behind. *NM*
11/10/2009 12:39:05 PM
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Some will probably even be actively serving the Antichrist.
11/10/2009 04:16:45 PM
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