Book club

[Arthur Dent]

I'm in even if I can't make nominations this time around.

Since this is the first try, I'm being forgiving. If your serious about participating, you can still nominate a book.


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Ikea's Choice: The Toy Collector



Edited By Arthur Dent on June 24 2002 at 2:33

[IkeaBoy]

I'm nominating The Toy Collector by Peter Gunn, I heard good things about this.l

[PollyannaFlower46]

Since this is the first try, I'm being forgiving. If your serious about participating, you can still nominate a book.

Thanks...I'm definitely interested..I'll have my nominations in later. Are we doing books to make you think, or are fiction books okay?

[Arthur Dent]

Are we doing books to make you think, or are fiction books okay?

Anything goes. Paradies, dramas, horror, mystery, philosophy, whatever. Just remember, we're going to vote on the nominated books, so recommend something that you think you can convince others to vote for.

[PollyannaFlower46]

Okay here's my list so far, I will explain my reasoning once voting begins...I will most likely have more nominations later...

<ul><li>The Stranger by Albert Camus
<li>The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
<li>Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
<li>Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters, Andrew Carroll, Editor
<li>War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, Andrew Carroll, Editor
<li>The Republic by Plato
<li>Utopia by Thomas Moore
<li>Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
<li>God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga
<li>The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet</ul>

[IkeaBoy]

The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters, Andrew Carroll, Editor
War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, Andrew Carroll, Editor
The Republic by Plato
Utopia by Thomas Moore
Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God by Alvin Plantinga
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet

I don't want to be a douche or anything but how many nominations per person? I thought one.

[Arthur Dent]

I don't want to be a douche or anything but how many nominations per person? I thought one.

Absolutely. ONE nomination per person. Too many books and we'll never get a majority for any one book.

[PollyannaFlower46]

Ooops sorry...I'm new at this....okay..I'm going to nominate The Sexual Life of Catherine M. It's been getting a lot of buzz in some of the magazines I read and a few people in my office are reading it as well.

[Lord Magus]

Ok, the disallowal of series seriously limits the number of titles I can nominate, so I'm going to have to play around with the rule a little. With that in mind, I submit:
Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks, author of the various and rather well known Shannarra series, and the less well known Magic Kingdom for Sale series. While it isn't, in my opinion, among the best Fantasy novels out there, it is still a very good one. The interesting point with this book (and the 2 others that follow the storyline, although this is a stand-alone novel) is that instead of taking place in some fantastic mythical world of swords and wizards, it takes place in a rather gritty modern day Illinois town, so it might prove to be less confusing or intimidating departure from reality to those who find fantasy a little hard to swallow. There is, to be sure, magic and mysticism a-plenty, but it's generally less showy and less "out there" than the standard fantasy fare.

I must, however, now take a moment to go beyond my single "nomination" and make a recomendation for side reading.
I STRONGLY suggest that the next time any of you are in a bookstore, you take a moment to drift over to the fantasy section, and look for "Pawn of Prophecy" by David Eddings. I have recommended this book time and again over the past decade or so, and I have YET to have anyone disappointed with what they discover. I have, in fact, given away my own copy no less than 6 times and never seen it again. I can almost garauntee you, should you open this book you WILL be hooked in (and there's 11 more titles to glut yourself on in the series), even if you're NOT a fantasy buff. Trust me, it's 5 dollars well spent.

And a final note.. AM, I had enough of a headache plowing through the Inferno, I am NOT going to volunteer to twist my brain around the ENTIRE Divine Comedy in a month. I think it's an intriguing intellectual and theological journey, but there's NO WAY I'd be able to wring a proper understanding out of it in just a month.

[Spitfire]

One book? Ok, my nomination is On the Road by Kerouac

[Arpikarhu]

I'm nominating The Toy Collector by Peter Gunn,

excellent book

Running With the Demon by Terry Brooks

also good, but i would prefer to stay away from the fantasy/sci fi shit

Enders game

see above

On the road

didnt everyone already read this by the ninth grade?

shouldnt it be a book that none of us has read. everyone is nominating books that they have read. whats the point?
i nominate Gore Vidal's "Lincoln". i have never read it but have heard great things about it.

[Maynard]

Arpi....do you take off the sombrero when you read?

[Spitfire]

Gore Vidal's "Lincoln"

Jesus Christ you are an elitist prick, aren't you?
leeper: leeper: leeper: leeper:

[Lord Magus]

Arpi,
I think the point is to introduce each other to books that we normally wouldn't look twice at, thus, we each "nominate" a book that we have read that the rest may not have, in order to broaden our literary horizons without taking blind leaps. At least this way there's SOMEBODY who can tell us if the book's worth the read or not. that's why most of MY reccomendations are going to be Fantasy, that's my major genre of interest, and since I know fantasy fairly well, I can point out books that people (such as yourself) who

prefer to stay away from the fantasy/sci fi shit

might actually enjoy.



Edited By Lord Magus on June 25 2002 at 2:15

[Spitfire]

I just thought of what I want to nominate-- Ralph Nader - Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President

[Maynard]

I'm reading The Plague by Camus now. damn good book.

[Arpikarhu]

Jesus Christ you are an elitist prick, aren't you?

what the fuck planet are you from? this was a best seller. not very elitist. still better than the high school shit you want to read. Just because you read at a tenth grade level doesnt make me elitist. it makes you stupid.

I think the point is to introduce each other to books that we normally wouldn't look twice at, thus, we each "nominate" a book that we have read that the rest may not have, in order to broaden our literary horizons without taking blind leaps. At least this way there's SOMEBODY who can tell us if the book's worth the read or not.

put that way, it makes sense. thank you.

[Spitfire]

no, I take that back, you're just a fucking asshole.
:fuckoff:

Gore Vidal bores me, sorry that's not up to your standards. I read what I enjoy, not to make myself LOOK smart.

[Arpikarhu]

Gore Vidal bores me, sorry that's not up to your standards. I read what I enjoy, not to make myself LOOK smart.

so he bores you, that makes me an elitist? i have never read Vidal, thats why i suggested it. now you call me an asshole cause you made an attack on me and i defended it. who's the asshole?

[Spitfire]

[disinterested chick answer]whatever [/disinterested chick answer]

you attacked my choice
I'm not a fucking asshole
I'm a fucking bitch
:-D