Wow. You're going to unveil your sleeve? Watch it or all the guys will be trying to read this book!
I am, by the way, enjoying this book.. haven't proceeded too far as I keep falling asleep... BUT it is not the book's fault, just me.
That looks great, dlowan, and much along the lines of what I was thinking. I've got a few broad themes in mind, and think I'll start out with one of those, with some quotes, and go from there.
Yay. Looking forward to it.
(Piffka, ya snuck in there. Hee hee.)
Er, umm, I love those wordy little items, books. read them at every available opportunity. Fiction, non, don't care. Point me to something new, and I love you. Follow you home, promise not to scoop the last bit out of the Haagen Daz... Me be Beedlesquoink, Squeedleboink, HCE. What books you have in mind? Let's throw the discuss around...
Last read by me: Perdido Street Station, China Meiville. Good stuff. Young writer shows off enormous potential chops.
faints - THUD - Beedlesquoink is here........
"One City, One Book" – what 5 cities chose to read
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2011/0915/One-City-One-Book-what-5-cities-chose-to-read/Seattle-Little-Bee-by-Chris-Cleave
Then I started wondering if perhaps a book club has been done at a2k. Looked around and found the old book discussion thread of
Fury and despite Sozobe's warning in one of the threads, I think we can pull it off.
Keeping parameters simple.
An English language work of fiction or nonfiction of say less then or equal to 350 pages-ish?
@dlowan,
I'm possibly up in a very tentative, depends on the book and how much time I have and no WAY am I going to make any suggestions way. (I think part of why I'm so mad at Rushdie for "Fury" is because he went and had to write a terrible book just when I was enthusiastically recommending him as an awesome writer! Argh. That book was so bad. Actually I blame Padma. I couldn't watch Top Chef without glaring at her, for a while. [I got over it.] But I digress.)
Has anyone read The Indian Clerk? I just finished it a few days ago. If anyone has read it recently, i'd be interested in your views.
How about Lev Grossman's The Magicians?
@tsarstepan,
nice, i've already read and listened to it (and am about to start listening again before listening to the sequel)
@djjd62,
I have read The Magicians, and have the sequel....which is my first foray into fantasy for lo these many decades....although I suppose the appeal is the non-fantasy tone of the whole thing.
Tsar.....lead us with wisdom and insight.
I kept reading it all, which surprised me. I guess the irony and the damn Narnia stuff got me.
@dlowan,
It's by David Leavitt. It's about Ramanujan, the brilliant, natural mathmatical genius in Madras who was brought to Cambridge by G. H. Hardy, the English mathmatical genius. The novel is told as a first person narrative by Hardy. Although it has some gratuitous homo-eroticism, i quite enjoyed it.
@Setanta,
Just downloaded to my Kindle.
I would join a book discussion here and I am interested in reading pretty much everything. Is The Magician going to be the first book then? when do we need to have it completed?
@Aldistar,
Well, two of us have read it, and you're happy to discuss it....why not?
Would we like to do The Indian Clerk next?
@dlowan,
Great! I will hit the library on Monday and pick it up.
Having already read The Indian Clerk, i'm now reading Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. I've not ever read anything by Miss Wharton.
