Jen, if you need a second to take the thread titling stuff to Bureau, count my hand as up.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Amy - Jul 14, 2004 3:42:01 pm PDT #194 of 3301
Because books.
-t - Jul 14, 2004 4:06:38 pm PDT #195 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hey, my Nabokov & Ozeki recommendations fell off!
Fixed. Sorry 'bout that. Several others got cropped as well, but they are back on now.
Let the titling proceed. I think we have bullshitted our consensus (or consensed our bullshit).
JenP - Jul 14, 2004 4:31:25 pm PDT #196 of 3301
Three yeas and one whatever work for me. I'll post it in Bureau, amended per P-C's suggestion, which is of the sense-making variety. Anything lingering on this can go to Bureau.
Also? I keep meaning to say an official "hi" to AmyLiz, whom I've seen post in a thread or two where I lurk ... but I don't think we've ever posted together, so, "Hi!"
Amy - Jul 14, 2004 6:08:05 pm PDT #197 of 3301
Because books.
Hi, Jen! And thanks for the welcome. I've been looking forward to this thread, so I'll be around here a lot.
Lilty Cash - Jul 14, 2004 6:28:33 pm PDT #198 of 3301
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Hey- when I looked over the list I remembered that last night I never posted a snippet on my rec for y'all to link to- I pulled the only unspoilery description off Amazon:
Into the Forest- Jean Hegland: Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. ...Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.
Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
ETA- Because, in re-reading it gave away more than I'd like it to.
Susan W. - Jul 14, 2004 6:54:12 pm PDT #199 of 3301
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I would suggest that for the first couple, go for classics or older books.
I like this idea. Glancing over the list, how 'bout Persuasion, Hard Times, and Brave New World/1984 for our first three months? All classics that should be in any library or bookstore, with a decent variety of style and theme.
(If we're not supposed to be making specific suggestions like this yet, please ignore me. I did some skimming to catch up.)
Strega - Jul 14, 2004 10:35:25 pm PDT #200 of 3301
Incidentally, Girl in Landscape is a western... in space!
Since I think some of y'all are partial to those.
Jim - Jul 15, 2004 3:02:45 am PDT #201 of 3301
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
just my 50pworth, but Brave New World/1984 isn't actually a particularly illuminating comparison - you basically go "yeah, different" and then stop.
Polter-Cow - Jul 15, 2004 3:16:43 am PDT #202 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
just my 50pworth, but Brave New World/1984 isn't actually a particularly illuminating comparison - you basically go "yeah, different" and then stop.
I did my senior thesis in high school on the two of them, so I beg to differ. They're an obvious pairing, in any case, as you almost never mention one without mentioning the other in the same breath.
Jim - Jul 15, 2004 3:22:54 am PDT #203 of 3301
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I did my senior thesis in high school on the two of them, so I beg to differ.
By an odd co-incidence, so did I, along with Neuromancer. They're lazily lumped together in that they're both mid-20th century dystopias, but that's it. They come from utterly different places, use utterly different techniques and are satirising completely different things. Aside from the fact of being dystopian, what's the commonality?