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10-08-2007, 09:30 AM
|  | no lust in this coma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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| | | Suggestions for the KR Bookclub's next read.
Hey everyone.
We'd like to open nominations again for our next book to discuss. Usually I'd make a list of previous suggestions, but I'm on a library computer at the moment and they're about to kick me off. If anyone else wants to find the last suggestion thread and copy-and-paste the suggestions from it, that'd be great.
Also, perfidia and I were wondering, when is the best time for us to start reading, do you think? As we're now getting into Autumn, there are lots of holidays coming up, and the inevitable Christmas panic approacheth. I was thinking maybe November - January for this book: is that long enough? Let me know...
mh
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PS: At the moment I'm sitting with an unread copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch and I'm not sure if it'd be a good discussion book, but to get the ball rolling, I suggest it.
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10-08-2007, 09:38 AM
|  | pull me out of the lake | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: soho
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| | | douglas coupland - the gum thief
it just came out
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10-08-2007, 10:24 AM
|  | BITCH PLEASE ? | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Up Crackney's Nose
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| | | banana yoshimoto - the kitchen
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10-08-2007, 03:20 PM
|  | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | Johnathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated
but really, I'll read anything.
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10-09-2007, 08:47 PM
|  | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | 253: A Novel
by Geoff Ryman
The 252 passengers and the driver of a London subway train are hurtling toward a crash in 7.5 minutes. Ryman (Was, Knopf, 1992) devotes a page of text, exactly 253 words long, to each individual, covering appearance, biography, thoughts, and actions. |
10-09-2007, 09:28 PM
| | die kleine daumenlutscher | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Socialist Republic of Wales
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| | | Actually, I'll vote for that ^
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10-09-2007, 09:33 PM
|  | moz angeles | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: nyc
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| | | I was never able to get through that Marquez book. I've read pretty much 90% of his stuff...and never that one! I know I have never participated, but right now I am in love with Jhumpa Lahiri...The Namesake or The Interpreter of Maladies, short stories.
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10-10-2007, 06:41 AM
| | no lust in this coma | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Edinburgh
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Originally Posted by no_ones_song  253: A Novel
by Geoff Ryman
The 252 passengers and the driver of a London subway train are hurtling toward a crash in 7.5 minutes. Ryman (Was, Knopf, 1992) devotes a page of text, exactly 253 words long, to each individual, covering appearance, biography, thoughts, and actions. | This sounds interesting. Extremely.
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10-10-2007, 08:33 AM
|  | fizzy lifting drinks | | Join Date: Jan 2007
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| | | I've never done a book club read with you all, but have you ever read any Toni Morrison? Her books are always beautiful, and very discussable. |
10-10-2007, 09:45 PM
| | books written for girls | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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Originally Posted by ella luciana This sounds interesting. Extremely. | I found a bunch of exciting books in this little one:
Rough Guide to Cult Fiction Cult Fiction :: Rough Guides Shop |
10-10-2007, 09:55 PM
|  | ***PURR*** | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary, AB Canada
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Originally Posted by discolexy douglas coupland - the gum thief
it just came out | I would join your club and read this....I adore Coupland |
10-11-2007, 01:05 AM
|  | i'm so tired | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: my suspicious northwest
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| | | I would really read anything, but I'll offer up the never-read books on my shelf:
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
A Room with A View, Howard's End, Maurice (E.M. Forster)
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
And I think something by Iris Murdoch would be fun to discuss. I haven't read:
An Accidental Man
The Bell
The Black Prince
The Sea, The Sea
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine |
10-11-2007, 04:38 AM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | Finnegans Wake, anyone??
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10-11-2007, 04:59 AM
|  | slow refrain | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: a farm.
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Originally Posted by bort Finnegans Wake, anyone?? | !!!
somehow i don't know that anyone else but me would second that nomination.
i want to participate this time, but i'm not good at suggestions.
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10-11-2007, 05:02 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by sokkar !!!
somehow i don't know that anyone else but me would second that nomination.
i want to participate this time, but i'm not good at suggestions. | I wouldn't read the bloody thing!
I met this guy once who had read it several times. He was insane. He kept telling me about dreams he had about riding on orcas. He drew a picture of himself riding on an orca. He put it on his "business" card.
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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter |
10-11-2007, 05:06 AM
| | slow refrain | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: a farm.
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Originally Posted by bort I met this guy once who had read it several times. He was insane. | somehow, i think the part in bold would've been apparent whether you'd told us or not.
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10-11-2007, 06:10 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by sokkar somehow, i think the part in bold would've been apparent whether you'd told us or not. | Well yeah. But he was.
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10-11-2007, 06:20 AM
|  | irony maiden | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: denny's.
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| | Orcas? Oh my.
How about Surfacing by Margaret Atwood?.....simply because I just started reading it? 
Or The Comedians by Graham Greene? ...since I have to read that as well...
Or is this more of a contemporary literature type bookclub? In that case, what about Michael Ondaatje's latest, Divisadero? |
10-11-2007, 06:28 AM
|  | for beauty douglas | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i am the cheese
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| | | safran foer, or coupland, from what people have said
anything by paul auster, as there are quite a few fans on kr and i'd like to read another
the tube train one sounds a bit gimmicky and irritating, but who knows it could be done well |
10-11-2007, 06:32 AM
| | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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Originally Posted by cheshirecat | | |
