Scots Taffer on 7/9/2006 at 12:09
People voting for books they themselves have read loads of times also seems rather contrary to the whole idea of what the book club is supposed to be about, regardless of whether or not it's genre fiction. I'd read the rather interesting Dante's Inferno just a year or two ago but I didn't vote because I'm not going to skew the voting by my previous reads.
Morte on 7/9/2006 at 12:35
I'm likely going to have to bow out of this one, unless one of the books I've already read gets picked.
Navyhacker006 on 7/9/2006 at 12:56
Quote Posted by mol
In Xenocide, however, Card's attempts at infusing the text with existentialism and philosophical meanings and subtexts didn't carry as they did in Speaker for the Dead, and he never seemed to get the material working as a coherent whole. I've yet to read Children of the Mind, although I've owned a copy for several years.
Xenocide sort of got away from Card. It was originally going to be the second of the duology, but he didn't want to stop talking about the world of Path. Which I've just realized could mean either path, as in road; or short for pathology. Neither Ender's Game, or Xenocide are necessary to understand the story, but both set up their direct sequels with some history, and help with understanding the whole story.
Read Children. It's a lot more like Speaker than Xenocide.
Matthew on 7/9/2006 at 13:07
Cheers, Paz. In that case I'll vote for Dante's Inferno; I just finished reading Ender's Game, otherwise I'd have voted for that.
Stitch on 7/9/2006 at 14:58
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I'm pretty sure you can join whenever you want! This thing has "rules" to keep it vaguely organised and monthly, but that's about it. Likewise, I don't think voting LEGALLY BINDS you to reading November's choice (although obviously it suggests you're probably interested).
Yes, exactly.
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We should also consider that if the sci-fi wins this time, Stitch will most likely kill everyone involved. Ho ho!
I've already read both <U>Ender's Game</U> and the highly overrated <U>House of Leaves</U> so if either of those win it'll be a perfect chance for me to read some of the other interesting-sounding candidates that didn't make it.
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I believe this was mentioned in another geeky book club thread, but the general feeling was that it could get UNBELIEVABLY MESSY AND DRAMAFIED with alarming ease. Which is something best avoided, obviously.
Yes. If we read and publicly discussed Strangeblue's book there's a chance I could kiss anything resembling a friendship with her goodbye.
Naitachal on 7/9/2006 at 21:31
I too have read Ender's Game, so I'm kind of hoping it doesn't win, just so I have an excuse to buy a new book on my limited budget. I didn't do last months, but The Life of Pi is a book I probably would never have read or even picked up on my own, so already this little experiment has been worth it to me. The discussion was lovely.
Let's go, Motherless Brooklyn. I mean, who doesn't love Tourette's-afflicted orphans on the hunt for their role model's killer?
Aerothorn on 8/9/2006 at 02:39
For what it's worth, the title of the Morrow book is "Only Begotten Daughter" - you left out the first word:P
Not that it matters, no one likes my picks:(
But seriously looks like we have a good selection here, wee.
Stitch on 8/9/2006 at 03:37
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For what it's worth, the title of the Morrow book is "Only Begotten Daughter" - you left out the first word:P
Fixed it in the text, but I can't edit the poll.
Aja on 8/9/2006 at 07:08
Between two of the English courses I'm taking this semester, I have over 14 novels to read by December.
I read Life of Pi (maybe I'll even comment when Scots gets around to it), but that's gonna be about it for the book club for me, until January at the very least.
Aerothorn on 9/9/2006 at 04:57
Yeah, I've come to realize that I have a problem: I do most of my reading in bed, but I really don't want to read The Wasp Factory right before falling asleep lest I have nightmares (my medication has the side effect of very vivid dreams).
