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How about "The Count of Monte Cristo"? *NM* fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 30/11/2009 07:23:09 PM
Hi all

So, our first Book Club was pretty decent. Thanks for your participation!

It's now time to choose our book for the next event, which will be in mid-January (probably opening on Monday 18 January 2010, just fyi).

Last time we had submissions it was suggested that we might do an "Other Fiction" book. There'll be a Quick Poll (hopefully tomorrow) to vote on this, but for now please make your submissions with that in mind. We can change that when the results are in, if necessary.

Other Fiction refers to books in all fiction genres apart from Sci-Fi or Fantasy (obvious but true). So it could be Crime, Thriller, Romance, Historical, Classical, a literary Classic, or that somewhat-undefined group of books which includes Ishiguro, McEwan, Niffenegger etc.

The list above is not exhaustive, just intended to give you an idea of where to start.


A reminder of what the Book Club is all about, and what kind of books you should suggest.

1. The whole point is for everyone to read the same book and then discuss it.
2. The community chooses a book based on submissions here. We do this via the Quick Poll.
3. The books you suggest should be easy to get and not too difficult to read (so Proust is probably not an option...).
4. Once the book is chosen we then give you 3 or 4 weeks to source it and read it.
5. Finally, on the date above, Jacob or I will make a post with a few starter questions and perhaps some thoughts and then we have a lovely discussion about anything at all to do with the book.
6. Anyone can ask questions, anyone can join in (provided, of course, that you've read the book or want to), and the more who join, the merrier it will be.


If you have any more questions then post them here, or NB Jacob or myself.

Otherwise, post your submissions here.


And thank you!
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January Book Club: Quickpoll Voting Options - 30/11/2009 06:24:49 PM 1617 Views
A Thread of Grace - 30/11/2009 06:31:12 PM 863 Views
I like her stuff. - 30/11/2009 06:32:40 PM 867 Views
I would rather read Children of God - 01/12/2009 04:46:07 PM 1064 Views
I like this option. Or the one suggested by Linda. *NM* - 04/12/2009 02:44:27 AM 417 Views
Doctor Zhivago or Master and Margarita - 30/11/2009 06:46:20 PM 829 Views
I prefer the latter - 30/11/2009 06:50:06 PM 862 Views
Master and Margarita gets my vote too... again. *NM* - 30/11/2009 08:11:32 PM 457 Views
Re: Doctor Zhivago - 01/12/2009 04:42:22 PM 955 Views
Harkaway! - 30/11/2009 06:51:57 PM 788 Views
Re: My library has The Gone Away World!! *NM* - 02/12/2009 05:13:35 PM 415 Views
It is clearly meant to be. *NM* - 02/12/2009 05:14:22 PM 398 Views
How about "The Count of Monte Cristo"? *NM* - 30/11/2009 07:23:09 PM 483 Views
I like this one, too; - 30/11/2009 07:25:03 PM 960 Views
Why I think it should be this... - 30/11/2009 10:18:31 PM 882 Views
I am partial to Nobel Prize winners. - 30/11/2009 07:41:48 PM 881 Views
The Shadow of the Wind or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 30/11/2009 07:47:09 PM 891 Views
You've removed the other thread already? It was only up a couple weeks. - 30/11/2009 07:49:46 PM 902 Views
Two weeks and there were few replies recently. - 30/11/2009 07:56:11 PM 1034 Views
Possession! (Yes, what a shock. ) *NM* - 30/11/2009 09:05:00 PM 399 Views
Are you referring to "Possession/Shock" the movie combo? - 30/11/2009 10:17:54 PM 1097 Views
Anything containing Isabelle Adjani cannot be bad... - 30/11/2009 10:42:42 PM 945 Views
Ishtar - 01/12/2009 12:06:39 AM 941 Views
I could be ok with this one too, since I own it already. *NM* - 01/12/2009 04:43:14 PM 408 Views
One of the books from aSoIaF, or even the whole series *NM* - 01/12/2009 12:13:35 AM 517 Views
You didn't read the original post, did you? - 01/12/2009 05:39:59 PM 1004 Views
Indeed. My apologies. *NM* - 02/12/2009 02:12:30 AM 480 Views
How about Feist's Magician? - 01/12/2009 08:32:16 AM 968 Views
So you too want to ignore the "Other Fiction" idea? *NM* - 01/12/2009 05:41:19 PM 412 Views
The quickpoll seems to favor that. *NM* - 01/12/2009 05:46:33 PM 424 Views
The unwashed masses want their panes et circenses *NM* - 01/12/2009 05:54:39 PM 470 Views
Indeed. *NM* - 01/12/2009 07:14:18 PM 417 Views
I don't read it for that. *NM* - 01/12/2009 07:43:04 PM 389 Views
/yawn *NM* - 01/12/2009 08:13:37 PM 437 Views
We are a Sci-fi/Fantasy community. *NM* - 01/12/2009 09:21:52 PM 388 Views
Indeed. - 01/12/2009 06:43:29 PM 862 Views
I wouldn't mind doing an Other Fiction book, but this is a science fiction fantasy MB. - 01/12/2009 07:12:28 PM 988 Views
Nevermind. *NM* - 01/12/2009 07:35:40 PM 437 Views
Mostly yes, but a little bit no. - 01/12/2009 07:38:16 PM 1050 Views
Re: Mostly yes, but a little bit no. - 01/12/2009 08:12:19 PM 948 Views
True... - 01/12/2009 08:45:39 PM 1048 Views
Heh - 01/12/2009 08:54:48 PM 1044 Views
There's a quickpoll? *NM* - 01/12/2009 09:24:55 PM 396 Views
Uh, all I was doing was responding to the original post's request for ideas. - 01/12/2009 06:54:40 PM 980 Views
Awww. - 01/12/2009 06:59:53 PM 819 Views
Silverthorn was better but okay *NM* - 03/12/2009 11:28:07 AM 400 Views
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Calvino - 02/12/2009 11:29:55 AM 888 Views
I wouldn't mind the former. - 02/12/2009 01:13:20 PM 855 Views
Re: I wouldn't mind the former. - 02/12/2009 02:53:03 PM 1003 Views
Second! - 02/12/2009 02:46:28 PM 842 Views
Re: Second! - 02/12/2009 02:53:37 PM 827 Views
First one. I was going with your title. - 02/12/2009 02:59:59 PM 1061 Views
A novel written in second person? - 04/12/2009 12:11:31 PM 797 Views
more or less, yes - 04/12/2009 12:23:40 PM 960 Views
"Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa ..."The Japanese Gone With the Wind" - 02/12/2009 04:10:21 PM 843 Views
Miyamoto Musashi? - 02/12/2009 04:28:22 PM 797 Views
that's the one. - 02/12/2009 04:45:02 PM 1018 Views
Julian Comstock - 02/12/2009 11:26:57 PM 1464 Views
I'm always for any book by Robert Charles Wilson. *NM* - 03/12/2009 11:03:13 PM 529 Views
Atomised by Micheal Hollbeque, it will make you sick *NM* - 03/12/2009 11:30:02 AM 614 Views
Hows about "The Santarogan Barrier" by... - 08/12/2009 12:57:50 AM 900 Views
And I just realized this existed sooo.... - 08/12/2009 01:02:34 AM 1118 Views
Via Quickpoll, as the original post says. *NM* - 08/12/2009 08:15:09 AM 488 Views
I see... *NM* - 08/12/2009 11:39:52 PM 416 Views

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