The Syndicate

Lizzy wrote:

A Person wrote:

Mongoose wrote:

A Person wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Have any of y'all read Cloud Atlas?

I keep meaning to but I never read far enough to get into it, I was looking for something to do tonight so maybe I'll try again. I really liked the movie, though.

We should do that next in Mafia Book Club! Wanna read it with me?

Also, does anyone want to read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections at roughly the same time? This is going to be quite teh bonding experience, if you do. You can only read a Franzen novel for the first time once (well obv, but you know what I mean), so this is going to be very special.

I could try to do that, I am much like vomps in my reading habits. It may give me some motivation to do so if others are reading it too.

I might join you guys for Cloud Atlas, but seeing how awfully slowly I'm reading The Etruscan, it might take a while. I really don't understand why it's taking me so long and why I'm basically dreading to pick it up to finish two darn last chapters. :\

Mongoose wrote:

A Person wrote:

Mongoose wrote:Have any of y'all read Cloud Atlas?

I keep meaning to but I never read far enough to get into it, I was looking for something to do tonight so maybe I'll try again. I really liked the movie, though.

We should do that next in Mafia Book Club! Wanna read it with me?

Also, does anyone want to read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections at roughly the same time? This is going to be quite teh bonding experience, if you do. You can only read a Franzen novel for the first time once (well obv, but you know what I mean), so this is going to be very special.

Mongoose wrote:Have any of y'all read Cloud Atlas?

Vompatti wrote:This would be an amusing story if I remembered any of the details, but some decades ago in Denmark or possibly Sweden the national library was required by law to purchase a copy of every book published in the country, and this anarchist poet (I don't remember the name) somehow managed to get an ISBN number for his "book" which was actually a relatively large wooden log, and now this log is somewhere at the library (most likely in the storage room).

Epignosis wrote:

A Person wrote:Maybe it means a foot from the page.

Could mean a note I deliver with my foot up the author's rear end too.

Mongoose wrote:Oh that sucks, Matt. See if your library can do an ILL, or Interlibrary Loan? When my library doesn't have what I need, they can borrow from thousands of reciprocacting libraries. I've even borrowed a book from Alaska before (I'm in FL).