August Book Club Pick

[Jinx]

Make your votes! :) I'll be keeping the poll open for 2 days, which will give every one the last day and the first couple days of August to get their copies of books!

[Jinx]

*bump*

[Night Fury]

I would quite like to read Cloud Atlas. I would join in if we were to read that one.

[Jinx]

Well, it's winning, and the poll closes tomorrow. We'll have to just see. :)

[fire_of_avalon]

UGH I WANT TO READ MOST OF THESE.

[The Man]

I'd be fine with either Cloud Atlas or Gone Girl. Or probably a lot of the others for that matter. I have an advance reader's copy of the latter somewhere. Dunno if I'll be able to find it in time though.

[Shorty]

Cloud Atlas! :jess:

It's not cheating if I've already started.

[Miriel]

I've already read all these books except The Merchant of Death and I'm not really in the mood for fantasy right now. So I'll abstain from voting and will go along with whichever book you guys settle on.

[Jinx]

Cloud Atlas! :jess:

It's not cheating if I've already started.

It kind of is.

The "new" book club is going to have rules. We're going to try to read it all together. You can go ahead if you really want, but you can't discuss anything past where the club is together.

[Shorty]

How is it cheating exactly? I'd like to know.

And how do these "rules" work? You can only read to x chapter by x timeframe? Not everyone reads at the same pace. As far as I can tell about typical book clubs, they are discussed after they are read. If you're wanting discussion as it goes along, obviously spoilers would be contained.

Or I'll just finish it up on my own and participate in another month if what we're reading is something I take interest in. :)

[Jinx]

Just the same way it was cheating during the Firefly group watch. It's fine if you do it, just don't talk about things that aren't happening for everyone yet.

I don't think reading it and discussing it later will work well in this medium, as it hasn't yet.

I know that everyone reads at different paces, which is why I said you can read at whatever pace you want, but shouldn't talk about things that have happened before where everyone is, even if it's spoilered, as that breaks up the flow of conversation.

[Shorty]

Why is this even being brought up? Discussing things as part of a book club that haven't happened yet serves no purpose because no one can discuss them with you.

[Jinx]

Why is what being brought up? I'm confused what you mean by your second sentence.

[Shorty]

Nevermind! I'll finish it on my own if such a thing won't work well in this medium.

[Jinx]

I just meant that I think part of the reason that the book club always fails is because there aren't any guidelines, and then people never actually discuss what's happening.

Even in the current thread which has stayed alive, there's been almost no discussion of the actual book itself, other than maybe some of the language used/the changes.

I don't know why you couldn't still participate in the discussion that was at hand, though.

[Shorty]

There's been no discussion because like three of us are reading it.

[Miriel]

Nah, the reason why online book clubs aren't successful is because book clubs in general are only partly about reading the book, and more about getting together to talk, hang out, drink, and eat while discussing said books. If you take out the collective meeting and the food + drinks, the whole thing starts to fall apart.

Maybe we need to offer cookies to get people to really discuss these books. :cookie::cookie:

[Pike]

Miriel's got a point.

[Jinx]

I vote that Miriel cooks for us, because holy crap the food pictures she posts.

[Miriel]

I make killer cookies, yo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/hannahgoesrawr/chocolatechipcookie.jpg

[Jinx]

I'm pretty sure I want you to make me some stir fry or shrimp pasta, though.

[Night Fury]

I've just downloaded this today!

I think I will probably try reading about a chapter a day, and I'll try and post my thoughts - spoilered - in the Book Club thread. How about we do it that way?

[Hollycat]

Shouldn't we have a discussion thread for enders game before we start the next one?

[Jinx]

There IS a discussion thread for Ender's Game. It's the July Book Club thread.

[Jinx]

Locky: I think that a chapter a day might be overwhelming for some people. It seems kind of constricting. I was going to look at the amount of chapters/pages and split it up that way. So "Read to Chapter 5 by August 10" or something. That's just an example.

Alright, everyone Cloud Atlas is the book that has been chosen! :D I'll give everyone a couple of days to get a copy if they don't have one. Just post in here when you get your copy!

[Shorty]

Let's keep the already stickied book club thread (http://home.eyesonff.com/lounge/150881-eyes-final-fantasy-book-club-august-edition-cloud-atlas-5.html#post3300630) going. We can make new threads for choosing books.