Book Club

[S~V~S]

No, lol. More books worth reading are NOT on that list than on it. That list just has a wide range of books, something for everyone, even if not all of it is highbrow. Basically a starting point for choosing something we all might like.

I myself am not a Bronte fan, too brooding/broody for the most part. Eighteenth & nineteenth century heroines are hit and miss with me.

[A Person]

I want to join I love a good book.

Have you read Wuthering Heights?

I promise I will begin after my company leaves.

Little Miss Cakes is leaving? Noooooo!

If LMC went away, so would the Brown family's grocery budget.

Around here LMC means Lake Michigan College.

I would join a book club if we did one.

[Epignosis]

I'll save everyone some time.

"1984" by George Orwell
I was born the year before. Things weren't so bad. Cartoons were the shit.
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
Gotta be brief. Dude was only here for a bit of it.
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers
Dude should see a doctor followed by a psychiatrist.
"A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah
A Muslim made this list? Isn't this America?
"A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket
I don't read books written by GIrl Scout cookies.
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
Who? Which? Whatsit?
"Alice Munro: Selected Stories" by Alice Munro
Hard to believe Alice Munro actually wrote this.
"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
This is where Alice Munro really was.
"All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
If this had been by "Deep Throat" Wal-Mart wouldn't carry it, so Bob had to use his real name.
"Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Bob's Butts. Camel's Carcinogens. This could have gone anywhere. Don't smoke kids.
"Are You There, God? It's me, Margaret" by Judy Blume
Has anyone ever read any of Judy Blume's other works? God ain't there for those.
"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
Any relation to Terry Pratchett? Wait no, missed the "r," sorry.
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
Oprah dies.
"Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall
The title is longer than the book.
"Breath, Eyes, Memory" by Edwidge Danticat
Oprah likes it.
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There's a hint in the title and in the author's last name.
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
This factory could have been many other things. Why chocolate? Why not selfie sticks?
"Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
Moral: Your children can replace you to your friends when you die!
"Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese
More nonsense from foreigners.
"Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead" by Brene Brown
Tip from Chapter 12: "Let a knife-waving maniac into your home. It will change the way you do everything."
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1" by Jeff Kinney
The drawings on the front cover put me off.
"Dune" by Frank Herbert
Hot, dry book.
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
An even hotter, drier book.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
And yet another hotter, drier book.
"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
Tried to watch the film. Fell asleep. Didn't try to read the book.
"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown
Good theme, but Samuel L. Jackson narrated one slightly better.
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
From the guy whose wife was always expecting.
"Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Dude must live in an inner city McDonalds.
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Read this again knowing Dumbledore was gay. Won't make any difference.
"In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Responsible for Philip Seymour Hoffman's untimely death.
"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa lol
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Tried to read this once and saw that the first part was "Battle Royale." Come on dude. "The Hunger Games" lady already ripped that one off.
"Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth" by Chris Ware
The smartest kid on earth is still a relative moron.
"Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain
Another McDonalds tell-all, apparently.
"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson

"Little House on the Prairie" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Michael Landon ftmfw.
"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Don't stand so close to me.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Please don't stand so close to me.
"Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
Cialis
"Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
Men have already found meaning. Beer and a good game.
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Somehow this made it past an editor.
"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
OH oh OH OHHH OHooooo ah ah ohhho oh WHAT THE FUCK JEFFERY?
"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is good, so give this one a shot.
"Moneyball" by Michael Lewis
Sounds like a bad arcade game from the 90s.
"Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham
No comment.
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
I tried to read this six times. Never got past page ten because the guy can't figure out punctua- Oh wait. That's "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.
"Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen
GONNA TAKE A LOT TO DRAG ME AWAY FROM YOU
"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
Girl doesn't understand cultural boundaries ANYWHERE
"Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth
Dream Theater needed a break.
"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Jane Austen needs to stop criticizing me 170 years before I am born.
"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Prefer "Silver Spring" by Stephanie Nicks
"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
PO-TEE-WHAT-THE FUCK? One of the stupidest books I have ever read.
"Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Four-bore and seventeen dollars wasted.
"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton
Read this book and then listen to this Don Henley tune. Makes so much sense.
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay" by Michael Chabon
A Jew writing about Jews. Pointless. Christians need to be reading the Bible.
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Begins little. Ends abruptly.
"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak
Barnes & Noble actually have a database of people who buy this one.
"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
I'm not even going to pretend I've ever heard of this one.
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
Serious commentary: Get Salinger's Nine Stories. His novel is good, but he can say more in fewer words.
"The Color of Water" by James McBride
Why are you so focused on what color the water is? Doesn't your book have more important issues to tack- Oh.
"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
His publisher accidentally used the label from the editor.
"The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson
Georgia has never been called the "White City."
"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
Too much unnecessary teen angst.
"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
Shakespeare rip off.
"The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Back massages by old men.
"The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman
Christian propaganda.
"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
How many of you took forever to figure out that eyes of TJ Eckleberg was referencing a fucking billboard?
"The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
The Hamfisted's Tale. Atwood can be hamfisted and still be good though. Read this. Read Oryx and Crake too.
"The House At Pooh Corner" by A. A. Milne
Much better as a song by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
A rushed trilogy out of one borrowed idea.
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Skloot. haha
"The Liars' Club: A Memoir" by Mary Karr
Would rather play a timmer game than read this.
"The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)" by Rick Riordan
Saw this on repeat in Wal-Mart's TV electronics center. Buy a Wal-Mart TV.
"The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Probably something about Napoleon.
"The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Carver was a better writer.
"The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright
Barad-dûr
"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
So much fuss over fucking jewelry.
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks
So much fuss over fucking crazy people.
"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" by Michael Pollan
I don't believe he knows what a "dilemma" is.
"The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
A Roger Hargreaves book makes more sense than this.
"The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel" by Barbara Kingsolver
Also known as The Undergraduate Bible
"The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
New York is still a thing.
"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolfe
I'm not even going to try to make fun of astronauts.
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
THERE'S that piece of shit novel with no punctuation.
"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.
"The Shining" by Stephen King
I don't know why this makes the tops of so many lists. King has written so much better shit. His Twitter is not one of those things.
"The Stranger" by Albert Camus
Fuck Ka-MOO.
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The shotgun also rises.
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Guns?
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle
Eating disorders are not whimsical things.
"The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame
Mr. Toad. That is all.
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel" by Haruki Murakami
More foreigners.
"The World According to Garp" by John Irving
Not a bad book, but A Prayer for Owen Meany is John Irving's masterwork. Please read it.
"The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
Magical thinking doesn't do much for me either, lady.
"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
And so do fifteen-year-olds' grades when they have to read this book.
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.
"Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
What do women know about World War II?
"Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
Any relation to Village of the Damned?
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein
Usually where the city planners said "This is where the sidewalk ends."
"Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak
Right here on THE SYNDICATE.

YEAH.

[S~V~S]

I really just posted that as a starting point for discussion about what book we might want to read.

[Hedgeowl]

No, lol. More books worth reading are NOT on that list than on it. That list just has a wide range of books, something for everyone, even if not all of it is highbrow. Basically a starting point for choosing something we all might like.

I myself am not a Bronte fan, too brooding/broody for the most part. Eighteenth & nineteenth century heroines are hit and miss with me.

I have read Goodnight Moon close to 100 times I would guess.

There are definitely some eyebrow raisers on this list, but many worthy reads as well.

I have heard really good things about the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and have been meaning to read it for a while. Here are some of the ones I haven't read that I have been meaning to and just jumped out at me.

My list:
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In Cold Blood
Persepolis
Born to Run

Linki

[leggyorlyb]

Epi, that is pure and utter genius!!

[S~V~S]

?

[Golden]

"Right here on the syndicate"

Nah, this is Where the Wild Thing Is.

[Marmot]

Born to Run

Another of my favorites.

[Neverwhere]

This is the Amazon 100 Books list: http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons- ... ead-2014-2

I have also done the Time list, which is not dissimilar. Of these 100, I have read 58. That surprised me, I would have thought it was more. I think when I did the Time list it was 60 or so.

How many of these have you read? Which ones have you not read that you might want to read? I think if we look at lists like these, we can come to a consensus on something we might all, as a group, enjoy.

No Herman Melville, no Nathaniel Hawthorne, no Edgar Allen Poe? No Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or James Joyce? No Chaucer or Milton or Shakespeare? No Graham Greene, no P.G Wodehouse, no Jules Verne or H.G. Wells? But Anthony Bourdain, Hunger Games, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid make the list?

I weep for the future.

These were my thoguhts exactly. Although, I admit to enjoying The Hunger Games >.>

[Neverwhere]

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.

It is. In my altime favourite list.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

[Epignosis]

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.

It is. In my altime favourite list.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

That's...the gag.

[Marmot]

You've had better jokes in past.

[Ricochet]

"1984" by George Orwell
I was born the year before. Things weren't so bad. Cartoons were the shit.

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There's a hint in the title and in the author's last name.

Dunno if this is good or bad.

"Dune" by Frank Herbert
Hot, dry book.

"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
An even hotter, drier book.

I should read this and re-watch the movie.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" by Hunter S. Thompson
And yet another hotter, drier book.

The movie pissed me off, I wonder if the book would do any better.

"Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn
Tried to watch the film. Fell asleep. Didn't try to read the book.

"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
From the guy whose wife was always expecting.

Never managed to finish it. :yawn:

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
Don't stand so close to me.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Please don't stand so close to me.

Lol where lol is due.

"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides
OH oh OH OHHH OHooooo ah ah ohhho oh WHAT THE FUCK JEFFERY?

I don't remember anything from this.

"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
I tried to read this six times. Never got past page ten because the guy can't figure out punctua- Oh wait. That's "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.

"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
Girl doesn't understand cultural boundaries ANYWHERE

Browsed the book in a library. Like the animation a lot.

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Jane Austen needs to stop criticizing me 170 years before I am born.

"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
PO-TEE-WHAT-THE FUCK? One of the stupidest books I have ever read.

"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
Serious commentary: Get Salinger's Nine Stories. His novel is good, but he can say more in fewer words.

Absolutely agree.

"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
His publisher accidentally used the label from the editor.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank
Too much unnecessary teen angst.

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
How many of you took forever to figure out that eyes of TJ Eckleberg was referencing a fucking billboard?

Does not giving a fuck count?

"The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
So much fuss over fucking jewelry.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
THERE'S that piece of shit novel with no punctuation.

Man I sure hope Epig never picks up The Autumn of the Patriarch by Marquez.

"The World According to Garp" by John Irving
Not a bad book, but A Prayer for Owen Meany is John Irving's masterwork. Please read it.

Still not translated here.

[juliets]

S~V~S, I think your list is fine.

[S~V~S]

I was just trying to be helpful & start discussion of what we might read, not a discussion on Western Literature in general and what should and should not be considered high literature.

That said, perhaps we should have 2 or 3 books groups. I don't want to be ridiculed for my tastes in books that I read for entertainment.

Can we possibly get together and decide on a genre?

[A Person]

"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
There's a hint in the title and in the author's last name.

Dunno if this is good or bad.

It's easily one of the best written books I've ever read, as well as easily being the funniest, so I am not sure either.

[fingersplints]

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
I'm not even going to pretend I've ever heard of this one.

I read something Epi hasn't even heard of. ^_^
idk why its on this list lol It wasn't that great. I don't remember much about it. there was a mongoose in it

My idea for book club was that anyone who wanted to join could pick the books, that way we could get a variety. I like all kinds of books. I just tried two poetry books, and I struggled to finish but did, so I will read everything. I like to read different kinds of books, because for me it's like watching different TV shows. I want a little romance. I want a little mystery. Sometimes I like a really complicated book, and sometimes I want some easy light reading that I can knit or something while reading.

[juliets]

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
I'm not even going to pretend I've ever heard of this one.

I read something Epi hasn't even heard of. ^_^
idk why its on this list lol It wasn't that great. I don't remember much about it. there was a mongoose in it

My idea for book club was that anyone who wanted to join could pick the books, that way we could get a variety. I like all kinds of books. I just tried two poetry books, and I struggled to finish but did, so I will read everything. I like to read different kinds of books, because for me it's like watching different TV shows. I want a little romance. I want a little mystery. Sometimes I like a really complicated book, and sometimes I want some easy light reading that I can knit or something while reading.

Yes, I read that one too. Too bad Epi's never heard of it - it won a Pulitzer and the National Critics Book Award. Epi since you don't like the list of 100 what would you suggest we use?

I'll say this again, I really like the list of 100 books whether it's the one SVS looked at or the Time one. I would be happy reading any of those books, many of them i have read and they were very good. The list presents books that are interesting and it crosses genres. If there are enough people that want to go that route I think we should try it. Maybe a second group could read the classics if that's where their interests are or some other mix of books.

SVS the only problem I have with picking genres is two fold: one, I'm not sure what genre many of these books are in. Bel Canto for example (great book) would it be considered drama? Gone Girl mystery? So I'd need some help with that but more importantly after we chose a genre then what would we do to generate a list of books in that genre? If we would go back to the list of 100 that would make sense. At least the list would limit us so we didn't spend forever trying to agree on a book.

Those are just some top of mind thoughts. Pay no attention to those who are trying to ridicule your reading selections. I'm reading the same kinds of things and I'm sure others here are too.

[Marmot]

I was just trying to be helpful & start discussion of what we might read, not a discussion on Western Literature in general and what should and should not be considered high literature.

That said, perhaps we should have 2 or 3 books groups. I don't want to be ridiculed for my tastes in books that I read for entertainment.

Can we possibly get together and decide on a genre?

High literature will surely take on a new meaning here in Oregon in a couple days.

[Epignosis]

Epi since you don't like the list of 100 what would you suggest we use?

Hopefully nothing with too much humor. Sheesh! I wasn't ridiculing someone's picks or anybody's suggestions. I was taking satirical and sarcastic jabs at the authors, titles and content of each book in an attempt to get a few chuckles out of people. I only included my actual opinions in a couple of places.

I'm not even in the book club, so I don't really care what anyone chooses to read..

[juliets]

Oh, I thought that earlier reply was a joke - you don't like words. In that case I guess you're right it doesn't matter to you what we do. I'm still curious how you would pick the books. It might be something we haven't thought of.

[Epignosis]

Oh, I thought that earlier reply was a joke - you don't like words. In that case I guess you're right it doesn't matter to you what we do. I'm still curious how you would pick the books. It might be something we haven't thought of.

Maybe you all could each nominate one book and then have a little poll in which no one can vote for his or her own pick. Go in order from there. That might be fun.

By the way, I think you all might have a lot to discuss reading this one.

[DharmaHelper]

[A Person]

My suggestion for just starting it would be to combine a few best lists and pick a book at random. That way the book would most likely be generally considered good and would be pretty easy for people to find. After seeing how it goes we could go from there.

[thellama73]

This is the list I think you should use.

[juliets]

hahhahaha longest books.

[juliets]

A Person I like your idea.

[fingersplints]

This is the list I think you should use.

I vote Война и мир

[thellama73]

This is the list I think you should use.

I vote Война и мир

Fun fact: мир can mean either "peace" or "world", so maybe the novel is really supposed to be called "War and the World."

[Ricochet]

Temps perdu sounds more like "time lost/wasted" in my language, which would not be unlike my experience reading the first volume.

That Romance of the Three Kingdoms sounds familiar for some reason. Let's read that.

[Neverwhere]

"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
I'm not gonna lie. This one sounds fucking interesting.

It is. In my altime favourite list.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Stupid lady wrote one novel and quit and then never ever ever followed up. I hate her.

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

That's...the gag.

Note to self: no posting before coffee.

[fingersplints]

This is the list I think you should use.

I vote Война и мир

Fun fact: мир can mean either "peace" or "world", so maybe the novel is really supposed to be called "War and the World."

That is fun.

[S~V~S]

My suggestion for just starting it would be to combine a few best lists and pick a book at random. That way the book would most likely be generally considered good and would be pretty easy for people to find. After seeing how it goes we could go from there.

Hrm, randomizing already?

Nah, just kidding. I actually really like this idea

[Golden]

Epi since you don't like the list of 100 what would you suggest we use?

Hopefully nothing with too much humor. Sheesh! I wasn't ridiculing someone's picks or anybody's suggestions. I was taking satirical and sarcastic jabs at the authors, titles and content of each book in an attempt to get a few chuckles out of people. I only included my actual opinions in a couple of places.

I'm not even in the book club, so I don't really care what anyone chooses to read..

Juliet tooks about book club, and epi says he isn't in the book club.

ergo, Epi is Benjamin Linus.

[A Person]

This is the list I think you should use.

I want to read Infinite Jest so that isn't too bad an idea.

[Hedgeowl]

This is the list I think you should use.

I vote Война и мир

Fun fact: мир can mean either "peace" or "world", so maybe the novel is really supposed to be called "War and the World."

It could be a good choice. Llama liked the War part and I'd liked the Peace part, so something for everyone.

I like the idea of each of us suggesting a book and then voting. We could have two rounds of voting, the first to get the top 2-3 picks and the second to form into reading groups, you pick which book you want to read.

Random is a fun idea, but I generally dont reread many books, unless I really love it, and wont read horror, extremely violent books, and some other topics, so I like to choose knowingly.

[juliets]

I like the idea of having a choice because I also don't reread books, nor do i read violent books or romances. I wish SVS would rejoin and throw her opinion out there.

[S~V~S]

I never left

I don't do romance either (although I did read those ones years ago about the Scottish guy becasue they were kinda sci fi, what was that, Highlander?). I will do violent. I don't particularly like contemporary dramas. I do reread, and I would be happy to reread if I have already read the book we decide on.

I have to think on this~ my initial reaction is to nominate Ulysses, by Joyce. I have never read it. But I have not read alot of things

[Elohcin]

Actually, To Kill a Mockingbird is a prequel. I don't know if you heard but she had actually written another book about Scout as an adult and publishers told her that they wanted more backstory first. So, she went away and wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. There was only one typed copy of the other book and it got lost. It was recently found and published. So she has two books. Excited to read that one actually.

Ooo, I ought to look into this. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorites. And, I have to say, I enjoyed The Hunger Games as well. I enjoy dramas mostly. I love books set in the early 1900s. I only made it through the first 60 of SVS's list yesterday and of those, I was most interested in Persepolis and Cutting for Stone.

[Golden]

I already wanted to be a lawyer, but I had To Kill a Mockingbird as a required text in English when I was 16 and it sealed the deal.

[A Person]

I am fine with rereading too. I wouldn't go out of my way to reread many books, but I'd have nothing against rereading one I wouldn't otherwise.

[juliets]

S~V~S what do you mean by "contemporary drama"? Do you have any examples?

[S~V~S]

Go Set A Watchman, the harper Lee book, is supposed to be coming out in July. I think a new book would be a great way to kick off the book club.

Linki, No examples, i don't read them. Basically relationship type books set in the present. Yawn.

[fingersplints]

I am fine with rereading too. I wouldn't go out of my way to reread many books, but I'd have nothing against rereading one I wouldn't otherwise.

same!

[thellama73]

I have to think on this~ my initial reaction is to nominate Ulysses, by Joyce. I have never read it. But I have not read alot of things

I read it last year. I don't recommend it.

[Epignosis]

I have to think on this~ my initial reaction is to nominate Ulysses, by Joyce. I have never read it. But I have not read alot of things

I read it last year. I don't recommend it.

I took a class on Irish lit. I also don't recommend it. Joyce was a master of short stories. His novels were pretentious twaddle and he knew it.

[Marmot]

Perhaps we should begin with Where the Wild Things Are?

[S~V~S]

I have to think on this~ my initial reaction is to nominate Ulysses, by Joyce. I have never read it. But I have not read alot of things

I read it last year. I don't recommend it.

I took a class on Irish lit. I also don't recommend it. Joyce was a master of short stories. His novels were pretentious twaddle and he knew it.

I will just shut up now. Whatever we choose I am sure will be good.

[juliets]

SVS I looked at that Time list and liked the one you posted better, of course thats just me. Also, we need everyone's voice including yours to find the right way to do this. Maybe we should continue throwing out one book each and then vote on what we have. Or we could go with A Persons idea and do a random off the list or an expanded list (we could expand the list by putting things on there that's not already there). I'm real easy how we do it.