I can compile the list of recs for tomorrow. Cut off at 2pm, list posted at 3 okay?
(eta: board time)
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
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***
-t - Jul 13, 2004 12:34:53 pm PDT #76 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2004 12:35:38 pm PDT #77 of 3301
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Killer. Do it.
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2004 12:36:24 pm PDT #78 of 3301
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Are we going to go by people who suggested or books?
-t - Jul 13, 2004 12:37:26 pm PDT #79 of 3301
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Pending further instructions, I can make two lists :-)
Amy - Jul 13, 2004 12:38:20 pm PDT #80 of 3301
Because books.
I'm up for either one -- suggestion-making person or book.
Wolfram - Jul 13, 2004 12:39:15 pm PDT #81 of 3301
Visilurking
I like Nova's idea, too. Select the selector. Everyone gets a turn.
I second Nova's idea. With two caveats - First, I think we should pick a book from the list of recs to start and then go with selectors. Second, I think it's important that the selector propose more than one book and get some feedback from the club and/or let people consense/vote on several book proposals. I don't think it would be good if Buffista X could sign up to be a selector and then force the club to spend a month on [your worst literary nightmare here] without any recourse.
Connie Neil - Jul 13, 2004 12:41:11 pm PDT #82 of 3301
brillig
Two lists, though I lean towards books rather than posters. I don't care if some over-exuberant Buffistas "stacks the deck" with their favorites.
Daisy Jane - Jul 13, 2004 12:42:18 pm PDT #83 of 3301
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm cool with that. I'd rather, if I suggested something that people weren't comfortable with for whatever reason that they tell me, and I take that into consideration.
(Just thinking that I have not been able to pick up The Little Friend in almost 2 years now, and am unsure how I'd react if it were the only choice I had, and couldn't at least say why I'd rather read something else).
Michele T. - Jul 13, 2004 12:54:44 pm PDT #84 of 3301
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Frog Hospital is, to this huge Moore fan, the least of her books -- if I'm in a group of people who have never read her, I'd far more rather start them off with Like Life or Birds of America, if people will read short story colls.
I've never read The Education of Henry Adams and have always meant to, so I vote yea to that one.
Polter-Cow - Jul 13, 2004 1:02:54 pm PDT #85 of 3301
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frog Hospital is, to this huge Moore fan, the least of her books -- if I'm in a group of people who have never read her, I'd far more rather start them off with Like Life or Birds of America, if people will read short story colls.
Like Life is, to this huge Moore fan, the least of her books. Or maybe Anagrams. But I think there's a lot more I like in that one. Self-Help and Birds would be my short story picks. Birds was what hooked me on her.