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.
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I suspect Fay's suggestion about a threaded book conversation by chapter is probably what works best online. Which may account for why our unthreaded board is less suitable for a book club. It's all or nothing. You can't read the first chapter and discuss it. You can't get drawn in by seeing what other people are discussing in the first chapter.
I think Gutenberg would be a fine experiment, but I personally wouldn't want to read a book online. I have to stare at a computer all day. Readnig a book is a different kind of eyestrain.
I'd like to open it to HBP discussion because I think that would probably work here since so many people have already read it.
How would a HBP discussion here be different than what's been going on in Literary in whitefont?
I think it would be the same, only no whitefont necessary.
I suspect Fay's suggestion about a threaded book conversation by chapter is probably what works best online. Which may account for why our unthreaded board is less suitable for a book club. It's all or nothing. You can't read the first chapter and discuss it. You can't get drawn in by seeing what other people are discussing in the first chapter.
I can see advantages to threaded discussions, but we've been able to have lengthy discussions on every other sort of medium from music to movies to television, and on numerous topics that lend themselves to divergence like politics, religion, and what lunch was. And Literary (and Jossverse) already sustain unthreaded literary discussions. I think you were more on the money with the choice of our selections than the forum where we discuss them.
I think Gutenberg would be a fine experiment, but I personally wouldn't want to read a book online. I have to stare at a computer all day. Readnig a book is a different kind of eyestrain.
I think you've confused the delivery system with the product. Gutenberg is a way for people who may not have the book or the time or patience to procure the book to get it in a convenient manner. Whatever classic(s) we end up selecting may already be on your bookshelf.
I'm easily confused.
Then my work here is done.
He IS a lawyer after all.
t idle
Having recently read
V for Vendetta
and
Watchmen
for the first time, I'd rather enjoy the chance to discuss them at length in the same way that I did HBP. But, that said, I think your Guttenberg suggestion seems fair, if I'm right in undersanding it to be one of the online archives of classics?
...sorry, I shouldn't be interjecting at all, really, as I'm fairly unlikely to participate. Nothing to see here.
Having recently read V for Vendetta and Watchmen for the first time, I'd rather enjoy the chance to discuss them at length in the same way that I did HBP.
Well, it would be a great excuse for me to read them again, though I really should get a TPB of V since I read it as it was coming out in the US, and never bothered to get a compiled copy.
...sorry, I shouldn't be interjecting at all, really, as I'm fairly unlikely to participate. Nothing to see here.
Oh well, good idea though.
I could participate if it happens in the next month, though.
...I really enjoyed the read-and-discuss thing about HBP, and I'd like to do that again. But on the other hand I don't really feel very book clubby. Er. Which makes no sense, does it?
ponders
I think I don't really want to make a commitment to being part of a group who will definitely be reading X thing at X time, is probably it. Er.
