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!
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
Atonement - Iam McEwan
Water for Elephants - Sarah Gruen
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Merchant of Death - D. J. MacHale
August Book Club Pick
Make your votes!
Originally Posted by Fynn
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I would quite like to read Cloud Atlas. I would join in if we were to read that one.
Well, it's winning, and the poll closes tomorrow. We'll have to just see.
UGH I WANT TO READ MOST OF THESE.
Signature by rubah. I think.
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.
Cloud Atlas!
It's not cheating if I've already started.
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.
It kind of is.Cloud Atlas!
It's not cheating if I've already started.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why is what being brought up? I'm confused what you mean by your second sentence.
Nevermind! I'll finish it on my own if such a thing won't work well in this medium.
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.
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