Okay since BOOK CLUB pt.1 wasn't very popular [no offense Anon], how about this:
Everyone post TWO books they are interested in reading that are popular / considered classics or must reads.
After 20 posts, there is sure to be a reoccurring book.
Most popular book is chosen, three weeks will be given for Anonymous to find a copy, read it, and join the discussion in this thread.
Sound good?
My two picks would be
Atlas Shrugged
1984
Lets do this!
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Anonymous2010-01-01 4:55
Of mice and men
Journey to the centre of the earth
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Anonymous2010-01-01 7:57
In Search of Lost Time
Atlas Shrugged
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Anonymous2010-01-01 7:59
If we end up reading Atlas Shrugged, I swear to God...
David Copperfield
The Brothers Karamazov
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Anonymous2010-01-01 9:52
SICP
Dune
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Anonymous2010-01-01 10:44
The Critique of Pure Reason
Being and Time
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Anonymous2010-01-01 11:58
Fuck off with Ayn Rand. She's fucking shit. Read some Pynchon, I'd say Gravity's Rainbow but I think it's beyond the grasp of many anon here. Try maybe Crying of Lot 49. Other than that I'd suggest
Lolita - Nabokov (relatively quick read but lots to discuss)
The Corrections - Franzen (be happy it's not your family)
The Trial - Kafka (epic mind fuck)
Blood Meridian/The Road - McCarthy (Blood Meridian is probably my favorite novel evar, definitely one of the best if not the best of the century)
Crime and Punishment - Dostoesvky
>>7
Like this annon I want The Trial by Kafka and Blood Meridian by Mccarthy
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Anonymous2010-01-01 17:39
Hah, and I actually got Beautiful Losers for Christmas to read for the previous one. Ah well, this is a good idea too, since we'll have more people directly involved.
My votes:
Nabokov - Lolita
Murakami - Norwegian Wood
A few notes of advice I have thought of if we are to pull this off.
1. Let's attempt to refrain from any generic school-reading books, such as most dystopia novels (1985, Brave New World, etc.). I have nothing against these great books, but I assume that we are all somewhat active readers here I assume, so we should look for something different than our high school curriculum.
2. No lengthy books. This is a new idea, and I'm sure most of us don't want to read Atlus Shrugged or War and Peace for a book club that may not even come to fruition. In general, our first book should up to 300 pages at the most.
3. The book club will need some organization once it sets off. I know we're just choosing books now, but if things come to work, we should have a relative date by which the book should be finished. Despite the date, the topic should be open for discussion by anyone who's read the book, whether they're in the club or not.
4. For some reason, this board does not have a name field, so we should be sure to identify ourselves through the e-mail field or at the beginning of each post.
If there are people who are actually interested in this, then tell your friends! This is probably the best board on all of 4chan, so more people would be nice. There isn't much to troll here, as most don't read enough books to even have trolling material.
>>15
Oh by the way, on length. The Book Thief is 500 some-odd pages, but it is a phenomenal book and a quick read despite the page count.
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Anonymous2010-01-03 13:46
Metamorphosis
Of mice and men
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Anonymous2010-01-03 20:56
Mythago Wood - Robert Holdstock
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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Anonymous2010-01-04 19:19
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
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Anonymous2010-01-04 19:44
Slaughterhouse 5
Atlas Shrugged (Don' flame me bro! I just want to know if it can possibly be as bad as everyone says it is)
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Anonymous2010-01-04 20:26
This thread was a failure fromt he first post? seriously Atlas Shrugged? If you guys weren't trolling you wouldn't have mentioned that.
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Anonymous2010-01-05 7:15
-Dune
-Atlas Shrugged
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Anonymous2010-01-05 9:45
I managed to get 1/3 into Atlas Shrugged. Wouldn't say it's bad, but it certainly has its own style... And you may or may not sympathize with the author or her political propaganda.
But still, I'd like to finish it some day, so I'd go with that and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon -- which is a far more awesome book I've been meaning to finish as well.
And if you count Atlas Shrugged as trolling then I'll go with Godel Escher Basch by Douglas Hofstadter. It's relevant to my interests in psychology, philosophy and AI. Also about halfway through (see a trend here?)
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Anonymous2010-01-05 9:56
>>7
Oddly enough four of those books were required readings for my English Comp class. I wasn't too fond of Lolita.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Franz Kafka - The Trail
Jorge Lous Borges - "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" or/and "The Garden of Forking Paths" (short stories might not be a bad idea, I've read the second, as I was able to download it, and I can read it again)
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Enheduana - various hymns/poems (might interest some for the historical value, it made an impression on me)
It was just too disturbing and off-putting for my tastes.
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Anonymous2010-01-05 19:39
Catch 22
The Trial
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Anonymous2010-01-05 19:43
4 for Dune
4 for The Trial
Ive read dune, its a quick page turner so will be a quick read. Should we go for both books?
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Anonymous2010-01-05 22:42
No, just the Trial it is really short and we can test how well this works.
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Anonymous2010-01-06 1:13
The Trail it is !
"One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime never revealed either to him or the reader."
Picking up The Trial tomorrow.
Dont let us down anon!.
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Anonymous2010-01-06 6:42
So glad it's not Atlas Shrugged...
I planned to head to the library today or tomorrow, so I'll grab a copy of The Trial then.
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Anonymous2010-01-06 12:10
Sweet,I already have the book.
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Anonymous2010-01-06 16:04
Excellent, this should make for an interesting 2nd reading for me.
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Anonymous2010-01-06 18:13
I read The Castle and found it tremendously boring, should I bother with The Trial?
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Anonymous2010-01-06 19:33
>>38
The Trial starts pretty good, but is god-awful later on. Castle is the same, except it becomes bad much faster. It's fuckign Kafka, what else did you expect? He was a horrible writer.
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Anonymous2010-01-07 10:01
>>39
You are very edgy, and so pragmatic in your tastes. I approve.
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Anonymous2010-01-07 20:42
>>39
Ugh, Kafka, horrible writer? GTFO. Book get bad quick, is no good. If this is the general trend around here, maybe The Trial was too ambitious.
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Anonymous2010-01-08 9:46
>>39
The trial was never really finished, if I recall it correctly.
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Anonymous2010-01-08 11:32
>>43
Indeed. Someone else put it together too; it wasn't in the correct order.
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Anonymous2010-01-14 20:06
Bump we need to redo this
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Anonymous2010-01-14 21:08
I'm reading The Trial as we speak at /book/'s behest. I'm supposed to think that K. is both an egotistical dick and an author surrogate, right?
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Anonymous2010-01-14 21:37
What was >>42 and why the fuck was it deleted. How mysterious
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Anonymous2010-01-15 3:48
Picked it up today, will start reading soon.
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Anonymous2010-01-15 9:49
So that's it The Trial? I will have to fetch it. If it was going to be Rand I was out but this sounds good.
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Anonymous2013-08-30 13:32
GARFIELD
Jon : "I JOINED A BOOK CLUB, GARFIELD! SOON MY BRAIN WILL EXPAND!