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Welcome goonlings to the Awful Book of the Month! In this thread, we choose one work of Resources: Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org - A database of over 17000 books available online. If you can suggest books from here, that'd be the best. SparkNotes - http://www.sparknotes.com/ - A very helpful Cliffnotes-esque site, but much better, in my opinion. If you happen to come in late and need to catch-up, you can get great character/chapter/plot summaries here.  For recommendations on future material, suggestions on how to improve the club, or just a general rant, feel free to PM me. Past Books of the Month [for BOTM before 2015, refer to archives] 2015: January: Italo Calvino -- Invisible Cities February: Karl Ove Knausgaard -- My Struggle: Book 1. March: Knut Hamsun -- Hunger April: Liu Cixin -- 三体 ( The Three-Body Problem) May: John Steinbeck -- Cannery Row June: Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood (Hiatus) August: Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Between the World and Me September: Wilkie Collins -- The Moonstone October:Seth Dickinson -- The Traitor Baru Cormorant November:Svetlana Alexievich -- Voices from Chernobyl December: Michael Chabon -- Gentlemen of the Road 2016: January: Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the Dog!) by Jerome K. Jerome February:The March Up Country (The Anabasis) of Xenophon March: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco April: Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling May: Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima June:The Vegetarian by Han Kang July:Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees August: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov September:Siddhartha by Herman Hesse October:Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse November:Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain December: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis 2017: January: Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut February: The Plague by Albert Camus March: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin April: The Conference of the Birds (مقامات الطیور) by Farid ud-Din Attar May: I, Claudius by Robert Graves June: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky July: Ficcionies by Jorge Luis Borges August: My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber September: The Peregrine by J.A. Baker October: Blackwater Vol. I: The Flood by Michael McDowell November: Aquarium by David Vann December: Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight [Author Unknown] 2018 January: Njal's Saga [Author Unknown] February: The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle March: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders April: Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria May: Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov June: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe July: Warlock by Oakley Hall August: All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott September: The Magus by John Fowles Current: I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara  Book available here: https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787 About the book: quote:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018. quote:For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. quote:I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer is a true crime book by Michelle McNamara about the Golden State Killer. The book was released posthumously on February 27, 2018, nearly two years after McNamara's death. About the Author quote:Michelle Eileen McNamara (April 14, 1970 – April 21, 2016) was an American freelance writer and crime blogger.[1][2] She was the author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, a true crime book about the Golden State Killer.[3] The book was released posthumously in February 2018 and is being adapted as an HBO documentary series.[4][5] Themes October means scary, right? Scare you right to DEATH! Pacing Read as thou wilt is the whole of the law. Please post after you read! Please bookmark the thread to encourage discussion. References and Further Reading The original "In the Footsteps of a Killer" article for the Los Angeles Times is here: http://www.lamag.com/longform/in-the-footsteps-of-a-killer/ Final Note: Thanks, and I hope everyone enjoys the book!
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chernobyl kinsman posted:i finished it and now my girlfriend's reading it and it's scaring her and she wants me to buy a gun wont help, he's already snuck in and emptied the clip
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Oct 12, 2018 13:19
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Applewhite posted:I really wanted to read this with tou guys but it’s making me cringe too much to read about terrible things when they happened to real people. I’ll have to join you all next month. If anyone's having a hard time with this one and needs a break, the BoTM thread from August, for All Creatures Great and Small, is still active, is also nonfiction (well, fictionalized but based on true events) and is basically the exact polar opposite of this subject in every possible way.
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Oct 13, 2018 15:01
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I guess this one made everybody scared! Suggestions for next month?
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Oct 21, 2018 05:03
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Nikita Khrushchev posted:Do you have any theme in particular or guidelines for choosing? I generally try to aim for a work that is accessible (ebook, clear prose style), off the beaten path for the forum (that is, not Dresden Files), and has artistic or intellectual merit. A good candidate has two of those three, a great one all three. If I'm out of ideas I just look at bookshelves till I get inspired. October and December are usually the only months I go for seasonal themes.
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Oct 21, 2018 05:51
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November is turkeys and leafs, everyone knows that
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Vote for next month's BOTM! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3872997
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