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Post by Stripes on Jul 2, 2009 23:49:10 GMT
Here is where everyone can recommend books for not so serious book club. Try to add one Doctor Who book if possible, you know, to keep things some what related to the forum. Each month we will vote on book to read.
This is a not so serious book club meaning I don't give crap when you read the book and when you comment on the thread. Lets just not go over board have posts for 30 different books in one month. *nods*.
I know I start a lot of projects and never finish them, which is an awful habit of mine, however, this does not take up GBs or overcharge me. Hack, making a post only take secounds. I can keep up with that. All you lot need to do is read the books and comment.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 3, 2009 0:28:14 GMT
We could all read one of those free DW ebooks from the BBC website and talk about that... like Human Nature, or Dying Days, or something...
I've been meaning to read Dying Days for a long time anyway. JJ tells me it's quite good. Other people tell me that Eight boinks his companions while the cat watches.
O.o
JJ, you fiend!
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Post by Stripes on Jul 3, 2009 1:14:52 GMT
Right, do you have none who books to add to the voting list?
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 3, 2009 1:58:49 GMT
Hmmm... my most recently read is a YA novel called Evil Genius about a school for super villains. It had some surprisingly insightful characterization going on.
It also had a 13 year old running an internet dating service, which was just really, really creepy.
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Post by IMForeman on Jul 3, 2009 4:06:02 GMT
We could read books with Who-ish connections...something by, say, Douglas Adams? H.G. Wells (I'm thinking specifically The Time Machine)? Charles Dickens? Agatha Christie? Anyone I'm forgetting?
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Post by poetry on Jul 3, 2009 4:55:14 GMT
Well, we should include The Left Hand of Darkness, since that sparked this whole idea.
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Post by librarylover on Jul 3, 2009 6:06:26 GMT
I like the suggestions already posted. Also, from a general SciFi perspective I would suggest Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Actually, anything by RAH would be good, but if you haven't read Stranger you should run to your nearest library or bookstore. Otherwise you won't grok.
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Post by merrythemad on Jul 3, 2009 13:03:31 GMT
neil gaiman! terry pratchett!! douglas adams is always awesome, and erm...well I don't know how many DW I can get my hands on, for the non-brits we could all go to the store and write down what they have and see if any of us each have one of the same book.
and I would looooove to read "Human NAture" just btw...
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Post by lynda on Jul 3, 2009 16:05:28 GMT
The last book I read was American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It won a Hugo Award in...2000 or 2001, I think. It turned out to be a really amazing book, though it was a bit...sexually graphic at times. Oh, and one scene about 30 pages in freaked me out so much I had to read some online book reviews to reassure me that the whole book wouldn't be like that before I continued.
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Post by Stripes on Jul 3, 2009 16:30:30 GMT
neil gaiman! terry pratchett!! douglas adams is always awesome, and erm...well I don't know how many DW I can get my hands on, for the non-brits we could all go to the store and write down what they have and see if any of us each have one of the same book. and I would looooove to read "Human NAture" just btw... I was thinking the same. We could check out our local libraries or something. I was going to see if I could borrow books from my neighbor but he not much of a share my DW type of guy. Can people recommend actually books and not just authors? It would make the soon to be voting list much easier. Please? I do have time to look around and see what books they wrote but I don't want to pick one and people be all "NOOO I WANT TO READ ANOTHER BOOK FROM HIM!!" OR, the month before, we can pick one author and vote which book from that author we want to read and discuss for the next month. Yes? No?
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Post by merrythemad on Jul 3, 2009 17:19:02 GMT
as for Neil Gaiman, he is truly brilliant, and Lynda, would you mind pming and tellingme what thirty pages freaked you out? I haven't read American Gods since last summer, and I found it to be great, although not my favourite Gaiman title.
Newton, if we are far enough to recommend titles lemme know, I'm just along for the ride, as per usual, ever the companion, me.
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Post by Stripes on Jul 3, 2009 20:06:32 GMT
I think Merry, that I am just going to go by the books that were recommand first, than we will slowly slid into the aurthor idea I had.
Should we start with that one book that gave us the idea of a book club in the first place?
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Post by jjpor on Jul 3, 2009 20:26:50 GMT
I've been meaning to read Dying Days for a long time anyway. JJ tells me it's quite good. Other people tell me that Eight boinks his companions while the cat watches. O.o JJ, you fiend! Why, thank you! If we do want some Who-related points, Clocket may be onto something with that suggestion. Here's the link: www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/index.shtmlI know some people don't like reading off the screen for extended periods, so maybe not, but there they are. I can't recommend the Dying Days too highly, and not even for the reason Clocket suspects I like it. ;D A really interesting one one there, though, is Nightshade, which is by Mark Gatiss, the guy who wrote Idiot's Lantern, only about a hundred times better. Seriously, it's good, if you like Seven and Ace.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 3, 2009 20:42:06 GMT
I've actually read Nightshade, thoug I don't recall much about it, except that there was embeded media in the ebook so you could listen to various renditions of the theme song while reading...
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Post by Stripes on Jul 4, 2009 1:45:35 GMT
I have a couple of questions which I want you to all answer.
1. If Clocket and/or Kit agree, would you like the the book club to have it's own little section, like how "off Topic" has?
I like this idea, that means I spam it instead of trying to keep the off topic spam free.
2. If so, would you be interested in haveing each chapter have its own post or to have just one post?
3. How many people are actually going to try to keep this up?
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Post by jjpor on Jul 4, 2009 19:58:14 GMT
I've actually read Nightshade, thoug I don't recall much about it, except that there was embeded media in the ebook so you could listen to various renditions of the theme song while reading... Really? That sounds interesting, I've only ever read it in paperback form, so I should probably check that out. It features a bit of Ace/original character shipping, but then again so did quite a lot of the NAs, or so it seemed sometimes... It was really the fact that, from reading Nightshade and watching the League of Gentlemen, I knew Mark Gatiss was a really good writer, that made me dislike Idiot's Lantern even more (and form conspiracy theories about RTD messing it about!). I think the book club having its own forum is a good idea; I don't know whether one thread per book or one thread per chapter is better, though; I leave that up to others.
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Post by merrythemad on Jul 4, 2009 23:31:29 GMT
i still vote one thread per chapter, saves us having to white everything out constantly
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Post by librarylover on Jul 4, 2009 23:33:28 GMT
i still vote one thread per chapter, saves us having to white everything out constantly I agree.
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Post by Stripes on Jul 4, 2009 23:37:12 GMT
Alright, per chapter it is. Feel free to start to thread on a chapter if I haven't already.
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Post by Abbyromana on Jul 14, 2009 3:32:58 GMT
If you are looking for a good DW book, may I suggest "The Eyeless."
It is a wonderful DW book with many twists and turns, plenty of potential adversaries and allies. There's a civilization on the verge of extinction, the end of the galaxy threat, and only our boyish and ever determined Doctor standing against the ultimate weapon, who may bring an end to everything even in the hands of the innocent.
Seriously, a very good read! ;D
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