How would a HBP discussion here be different than what's been going on in Literary in whitefont?
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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***
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2005 10:51:47 am PDT #950 of 3301
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libkitty - Aug 03, 2005 10:54:20 am PDT #951 of 3301
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I think it would be the same, only no whitefont necessary.
Wolfram - Aug 03, 2005 11:26:55 am PDT #952 of 3301
Visilurking
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.
DavidS - Aug 03, 2005 11:38:23 am PDT #953 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think you've confused the delivery system with the product.
I'm easily confused.
Wolfram - Aug 03, 2005 12:15:21 pm PDT #954 of 3301
Visilurking
I'm easily confused.
Then my work here is done.
Trudy Booth - Aug 03, 2005 12:43:40 pm PDT #955 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
He IS a lawyer after all.
Fay - Aug 04, 2005 5:54:45 am PDT #956 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2005 5:58:59 am PDT #957 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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.
Fay - Aug 04, 2005 6:06:25 am PDT #958 of 3301
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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.
Wolfram - Aug 04, 2005 6:10:30 am PDT #959 of 3301
Visilurking
I can't be sure but I think Fay's flirting with us.