GR Book Club - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Phillip K Dick

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Errkal** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:52 am

the eBook versions of most things are probably available on the web to "acquire" when needed.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Dual** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:48 am

Why don't we pick a number at random from a '100 greatest books' list or something? Because like parksey I'm not interested in reading anything pulpy.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Dual** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:48 am

Tentatively in

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Rocsteady** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:57 am

Lots of those lists will probably be populated by novels like War & Peace which are way too long, and also pretty hard reads even if they are considered great works of art.

TBH I'd hope no one would pick move tie-ins and the like anyway since they're invariably absolute gooseberry fool.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Dual** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 12:33 pm

Yeah I just looked at the top 10 of the Guardians best 100 - Lol I ain't got time for some 900 year old medieval epic.

We could pull 3 out of a hat and vote for the one to read?

Or we can all just plough through collective works of Hemingway

PostRe: GR Book Club by **<]:^D** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 2:22 pm

i think we can trust people to nominate choices that aren't going to put everyone off; if they do then people can just say, 'no thanks mate' and that person can pick another, or the next person up can go a week early?

already got a book (easily one of my top 10) in mind that's lightning fast to read & slightly sci-fi so im hoping to convert some people :wub:

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Rax** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:06 pm

I probably wont participate but there used to be a book club in a company I worked for and what they did was make a theme every month, then everyone nominated 1 book and the club voted on which one to read. The themes were usually very open ended, stuff like "Books where the main character is female", "Books set in a fictional city" but sometimes theme could just be a genre like crime or sci fi. It worked out pretty well there so just putting it forward as an option here.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **<]:^D** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:08 pm

nice idea - i like it.

might be a stumbling block though, i.e. getting enough people to choose in time for a week/two week period.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Rax** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:14 pm

<]:^D wrote:nice idea - i like it.

might be a stumbling block though, i.e. getting enough people to choose in time for a week/two week period.

While youre reading Februarys book you would be submitting and voting on Marchs book, so you would have 2 weeks to submit and 2 weeks to vote, it wasnt much of a problem, especially when the themes for each month are announced well in advance (usually the whole years themes were mapped out in November) so you have loads of time to get a book ready for it. The theme was also open to interpretation to some degree so some leeway was allowed if someone didnt have a fantasy novel to submit for example.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **<]:^D** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:25 pm

cool! whatever Ian decides on im cool with it; will be a nice chance to waffle on about books

I'm happy for a theme idea in the future but for now I think we should keep it as simple as possible - don't want slightly inferior works being nominated simply because we have to stick to a thematic idea, no matter how vague.

Added rules to the OP but it's pretty simple.

PM me your book before Sunday morning and I'll randomly select one using a generator.

What's a realistic timeframe to read a short novel? 2 weeks?

In.

PostRe: GR Book Club by **Irene Demova** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 6:10 pm

Dual wrote:Why don't we pick a number at random from a '100 greatest books' list or something? Because like parksey I'm not interested in reading anything pulpy.

The problem with 100 greatest lists is that any public poll list is absolute shite (see the modern library one full of Ayn Rand) and any one by a publication is heavily biased toward the canonical works of that country, a lot of these books are long and not fun to read.

Good idea, I'd like to join in although I don't like reading more than one book at a time and I still have 300 pages of Middlemarch to go, which is hardly a quick read. I'll try to keep up!

Looking around, so few of the books I'd immediately suggest are 300 pages or less. Going to have to think on this.

Rex Kramer wrote:Looking around, so few of the books I'd immediately suggest are 300 pages or less. Going to have to think on this.

Yeah I know, 120 Days of Sodom is too long

Although Story of the Eye is short enough...

Hahha yeah 300 is a really difficult limit!

I'm in. I agree that 300 is a difficult limit. Got one that meets it though I think.

Denster wrote:In.

Added you and Superking to the OP.

Genuinely very happy with the range of books coming in already; had a few from novelists I've not even heard of before, a few greats that I've been meaning to read for a while and some classics that could do with a re-read. Even if Dual stole my original idea by going for Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea (

) - ~130 pages of an old man going out to fish and it's an absolute strawberry floating masterpiece.

Irene's been a lad and volunteered to acquire electronic works for us using a method I didn't even realise existed which should be super helpful.

Got a load of suggestions in but stilll waiting for others so get on it yo.

I'll give this a go as well, normally I'll leave months in between reading books so hopefully this will help make it a more regular thing. I'll need to have a think on what to nominate, with the page limits The Old Man and the Sea was my first thought too but looks like that's taken :lol:

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