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Ianiniho posted:Isn't the point to go outside your comfort zone though? Read something you wouldn't normally read, expand your horizons n all that? Stravinsky's had varied success on that part with the different challenges in the reading challenge thread.
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OK, one last day for suggestions. Tomorrow this thread will become a poll (presuming I can figure out how to do that). It sounds like we have a few different ideas for which direction to head in, so the poll should be interesting.
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ulvir posted:Stravinsky's had varied success on that part with the different challenges in the reading challenge thread. I think because that's less time-constrained, it's less like herding cats, but also less of a monthly event thing. I don't see a load of discussion in that thread, which is what the book club needs.
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I wish there was more discussion in the challenge thread and part of the reason I made several of the categories vague. Anyway I repurposed the suggestion I had made when this subject came up before (last year?) when I did this year's challenge thread. It was do a theme instead of a specific book. That way in the lead up people could make suggestions to one another about different books that would fit that theme in the upcoming month and then talk about the books they are reading and how they fit the theme and what they think about it. This way there isn't a constraint on what you read while still broadening your horizons. Someone could read SciFi or whatever 17th century book where a monk styles all over protestant theory they want as long as they somehow fit the theme. The main weakness is that it becomes uhhh decentralized and could lead to people just talking past each other as apparent in the challenge thread but that may just be a problem inherent to that thread because its commonly seen as a place to just update their checklist.
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Also its the summer and as I said before everyone's reading murakami at the beach rather than doing book clubs right now
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Stravinsky posted:Also its the summer and as I said before everyone's reading murakami at the beach rather than doing book clubs right now Murakami is for anime fans who want to look intellectual ( at the beach or elsewhere)! I mean really read Mishima or don't
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Murakami is for anime fans who want to look intellectual you would know *scorches the earth with such a burn*
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Mel Mudkiper posted:you would know I put the psmooth in psuedo-intellectual
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I put the psmooth in psuedo-intellectual I can't believe you think anyone takes you seriously in the Lit thread with an avatar like that
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Well, maybe read books are appropriate for the time of year? The problem with picking a new book or popular book is that you can get trapped with not having much to discuss, other than plot points and twists. For instance, my real life book club picked The Martian recently. Half of the book club liked the book, the other half didn't. Most of the discussion was about our opinions on why the book was good or why we hated it. Not much of a debate. Next book was Dharma Bums by Kerouac. It's about half the size of The Martian, and not much action happens, but it's given us more topics to discuss (Buddhism and it's popularity during the 50's and 60's, the Beats, misogyny, etc). Plus, it's the summer, and it's a book about camping and the great outdoors, so while not everyone liked it, it had enough to talk about other than why we liked it or hated it. I don't see there being a problem with forced variety (last month we chose a Sci-Fi book, no one can suggest sci-fi this month) or as Stravinsky mentioned, maybe picking a theme to follow with suggestions. If every month we pick a fantasy, sci-fi, or Tom Clancy-esque book, I'm kinda lost. I'm totally open to getting newer books. Barnes and Nobles and Amazon makes it pretty easy to get the newest books for $15 physical, $10 digital, and it's not like libraries have gone extinct. EDIT: And to add a book to the polls, what about Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle? Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Murakami is for anime fans who want to look intellectual ( at the beach or elsewhere)! Has the general public ever looked at any anime fan and been like "oh man, that dude reading Japanese comics sure is intellectual."
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Where dem polls at
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Paper With Lines posted:Has the general public ever looked at any anime fan and been like "oh man, that dude reading Japanese comics sure is intellectual." Very briefly when Akira came out and then never again
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esn2500 posted:Where dem polls at Polls will go up later tonight
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corn in the bible posted:Very briefly when Akira came out and then never again I was totally going to say this.
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Ok, I'm closing this thread. Poll is up, go vote. Thanks for everyone who suggested things; if I didn't use your suggestion this month I may use it in future, we just got a lot of entries. GO HERE NOW: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3732757
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