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[Idea] TL Book Club?

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Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-11 06:00:19
November 10 2008 07:05 GMT
#1
Edit: Below is OP from way back, I'm just bumping/editing to gauge interest in book club #3.
First post on possibility of new book is here.


There have been a lot of threads on TL lately about books/writing/reading. This got me thinking, TL is a community, and a lot of us are into reading...Book Club?

So I am guessing we pick a book, and then 2 weeks (just example, can be less/more) for reading, and then discuss said book. This thread is where we should see if anybody is in, and decide our first book.

Here are my ideas, feel free to agree/disagree.

1. A lot of people in various book threads have said they were really into Enders Game by Orson Scott Card, so I thought we could use that as the first book, but as I said before the process should be democratic, so suggest others if you wish.

2. Since TL is an international community, we should pick books that are relatively widely available. Idk, no obscure titles only available in certain countries.

So, yeah, discuss.

If you want to be in, but don't have anything to say in the thread, please just post saying "I would join" or something, so we can get a good idea of how many people are interested.

Alright, Fiction it is. (there used to be a poll here.)

New poll, I took the suggestions in the thread that weren't ender's game (for reasons mentioned in the thread) and weren't suggested by posters with <10 posts and very little time at TL.net. Posters like that disappear quite often, and, at least for this first book, I don't want to get saddled with the book choice of a guy than vanishes. Fair? Not really. Do I feel bad about it? Nope. Sorry, call me jaded if you must. Anyways, here are the 5 options for the first five books.

Poll closed, 1984 won.

Oh, and don't vote unless you are participating please.

Edit: New thread here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=82227


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SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
November 10 2008 07:07 GMT
#2
reading is for pussies
posting on liquid sites in current year
masami.sc
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States445 Posts
November 10 2008 07:07 GMT
#3
I would be interested.
mmmmm...
BreaK
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada890 Posts
November 10 2008 07:16 GMT
#4
I'm so down.

(English Lit Major)
formerly ClouD.BreaK ~ gogo KTF! & Liquid!
Tensai176
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Canada2061 Posts
November 10 2008 07:17 GMT
#5
Ye Ye Let's do it up
We see things they'll never see
LightRailCoyote
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States982 Posts
November 10 2008 07:21 GMT
#6
As an english major i am so into this you have no idea.

Give me some citrussy blubber.
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Falcynn
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3597 Posts
November 10 2008 07:32 GMT
#7
I'd definitely be in for this. I'm always looking for good books to read, but I hate browsing for them myself because I have a knack for always picking the lamest books on the shelf =/
Insane Lane
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States397 Posts
November 10 2008 07:53 GMT
#8
Sounds good, but if a lot of people have read Ender's Game, I don't see the point to starting out with that book.
Motiva
Profile Joined November 2007
United States1774 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-10 08:39:03
November 10 2008 08:38 GMT
#9
I'd be interested... always read anyway, sounds like fun.... I am actually one of the few that hasn't read Ender's Game though... We should pick a book that most haven't read however.
littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7218 Posts
November 10 2008 10:57 GMT
#10
i'm in! i've read ender's game and love it, but i need new books to read as well ;O!
Entusman #12
Ohforf
Profile Joined July 2008
Singapore80 Posts
November 10 2008 11:27 GMT
#11
Jack Campbell for the win!
Deus escreve certo por linhas tortas. L'heroisme tombe au niveau de debrouillage.
Senx
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Sweden5901 Posts
November 10 2008 13:25 GMT
#12
This is ridicilous, the only thing i'd read is the teamliquid magazine.
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Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
November 10 2008 13:52 GMT
#13
Alright, so it sounds like my enders game idea fails, so start suggesting books.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
November 10 2008 14:03 GMT
#14
On November 10 2008 16:53 Insane Lane wrote:
Sounds good, but if a lot of people have read Ender's Game, I don't see the point to starting out with that book.

I'm so looking forward to how you will find a way to warp every book conversation into being about Hemingway.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
November 10 2008 18:32 GMT
#15
On November 10 2008 22:25 Senx wrote:
This is ridicilous, the only thing i'd read is the teamliquid magazine.


and also apparently tl.net blogs and forums.
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poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-11-10 19:06:24
November 10 2008 19:05 GMT
#16
I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOO in ! You could just make polls about book choices, but we need at least a week after the poll so that people can get/read the book if they don't know it ^^
Makhno
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Sweden585 Posts
November 10 2008 20:15 GMT
#17
This would (P)Rock so hard. Dostoyevskij plz!
"If I think, everything is lost"
anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
November 10 2008 20:15 GMT
#18
yes! but rather than having a sort of tedious voting system or whatever for what books we read, maybe just 2-3 "leaders" choose the book each week and lead the discussion?
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
November 11 2008 18:57 GMT
#19
Alright, I added a poll to decide if this should be fiction or non or both in the op.

Also, START SUGGESTING BOOKS!!

Here are a few suggestions from me:

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Yeah, make some suggestions so we can get this show on the road.
anderoo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada1876 Posts
November 11 2008 19:08 GMT
#20
I second Catch-22
I havent read it but everyone tells me it's amazing
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