Book Club

[broneck]

Are we starting this again?

[NESK]

imperial bedrooms when it comes out ftw.

[broneck]

I really wanna tackle the Original of Laura

[automaton]

Lets DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this

seriously

[dubcbadass]

Lets DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this

seriously

No love from anyone? Who wants to organize this? It ain't hard (but I'm lazy).

[broneck]

Original of Laura anyone? I'm down.

[Halifamous]

I really wanna tackle the Original of Laura

What the tits do you mean tackle? it's like, ten thousand words tops.

Although it would be hilarious to see everyone re-arrange the motherfucker.

[broneck]

"tackle" in the context of i'm reading like 14 other books right now. Anyone who wants to discuss the merits ("merits") of Guns, Germs and Steel, let me know.

[landho]

Remember when there was a book club and I contributed thousands of words on Lolita and a few other people chimed in and then a couple of other books got chosen and no one even bothered to read those books and book club just kind of petered out and then the thread became some kind of ghost town? Yeah, man, those were the days.

[broneck]

I am also reading Violence by Slavoj Zizek. Landho will read it too.

[landho]

I have read some Zizek in my day!

[Halifamous]

Remember when there was a book club and I contributed thousands of words on Lolita and a few other people chimed in and then a couple of other books got chosen and no one even bothered to read those books and book club just kind of petered out and then the thread became some kind of ghost town? Yeah, man, those were the days.

I like it when everyone chooses a book I've already read and then I pretend I know more about it than anyone despite the fact I probably read it like six years ago and am fishing most of my descriptives from old James Wood reviews and theasaurus.com.

KIND of my modus operandi.

[NESK]

i check this thread often in hopes that a) someone will suggest a book i havnt read yet, others will agree to read it, and c) halifamous will pretend to be smarter than those people.

[Halifamous]

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[broneck]

Hello everyone. I would like to propose, officially, the Original of Laura. It's really short, and therefore should be agreeable to most. Further, it has massive potential for discussion, as the cards were assembled in the order that they were only believed to belong in (not necessarily as they actually do according to Nabokov's vision). Interestingly, Nabokov wrote an entire novel (A Pale Fire) devoted to this very topic - an authour's authority over his being stripped after his death, and his actual purpose perverted by someone who claims to know what the deceased actually wanted said.

Therefore, the Original of Laura is my submission for a book we should all agree upon, read, and discuss. Mostly, because I remember starting this thread, and then all the shit Landho talked about happening, happened.

Thoughts?

[mpcec]

I would participate. I need some good motivation to do extracurricular reading while I have classes and I've been meaning to read something by Nabakov.

Don't know how great I'll be in discussion, but I'll put some effort into it.

[NESK]

only way im reading that one is if you (clopek) leave a copy at ym house for a couple years and then i stumble on it and decide its worth checking out.

[Servo2000]

i vote for something i can buy used in paperback i only see this thing for like $18 used on amazon

[broneck]

WELP, can't say I didn't try. I also bought Infinite Jest, so if anyone thinks that's a viable option you're free to join in.

[NESK]

once your halfway through it, i will speak at length with you. theres currently some discussion in what are you reading today. but i wouldnt get into that until after youre done.

[NESK]

i also really want to read little brother but im waiting for a paperback cause the artwork on the hardcover is nausiating.

[who8mahrice]

Book nominations going on right now? How about Atlas Shrugged? Been reading it for the past month and have only been able to finish a third of it with school. Don't think we could discuss it in a month if people only started now..but maybe two or three? haha

[Servo2000]

I'd be good with Inifinite Jest although maybe that'd be a good one to do in addition to another one because I feel like most people who'd contribute here have already read it.

[broneck]

infinite jest is like 1200 pages long, so it was mostly a joke, but . . .

[Servo2000]

I've got a break for a week and a half and two flights so I'll be able to finish whatever we choose but you're right - probably not a great choice for a month. I'm going to butt out now.

[Halifamous]

Book nominations going on right now? How about Atlas Shrugged? Been reading it for the past month and have only been able to finish a third of it with school. Don't think we could discuss it in a month if people only started now..but maybe two or three? haha

HAHAHAHA I will talk about this for SURE if y'all want to read it.

I don't think you guys should do another nabakov on account of already having done one, and also on account of most people involved probably not having read enough Nabakov to properly discuss the book in context.

Also considering the likelyhood of all members of book club actually finishing a HUGE ASS book why don't you pick something short. No hate, just saying with all the commitments amongst the group you'd be hard pressed to get more than a few people to finish a short book, let alone a long ass one.

I submit the following because I think you'd like them:

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

The Englishmans Boy by Guy Vanderhaegh

Shame by Salman Rushdie

The Innocent Millionaire by Stephen Vizinzcey

[mpcec]

I'm basically down for anything that's under 600 pages or so. I've bookmarked this thread so basically count me in regardless of book choice. Out of the above books though I'm most interested in Shame.

[broneck]

me too!

shame x 3

[automaton]

Shame sounds good to me

[Halifamous]

Sweet, I havn't read it in a while and I think I lost my copy, are we agreed? Because if so I'm gonna go cop a new one at chappies this weekend.

It's totally a fucking sweet book, plus most people havn't read it, which is kind of what you want with book club. I mean, I can stop a motherfucker on campus and he's probably read the road, this shit though, this shit requires a group agreement.