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'Potential'
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***
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
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?
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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.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2005 6:12:28 am PDT #960 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Actually that makes a lot of sense, and, on reflection, is probably my own attitude as well. I suppose a discussion in Literary isn't out of the question, but it would be in and around a bunch of other convos. That, and comics discussions have ended up in Other Media by default. It could happen there instead but, as with Literary, there will be discussions in and around it as well.
Which isn't really helpful, is it? You're probably right - nothing to see here.
Wolfram - Aug 04, 2005 6:31:43 am PDT #961 of 3301
Visilurking
If we were to do Watchmen or V for Vendetta as a selection, I think we should have at least one discussion guide/leader. Can we get someone with the requisite expertise to make that kind of commitment?
Also, between the two, I think Watchmen would be a better text for discussion, particularly for people who are new to the genre. V is an excellent and arguably superior work, but I don't think the characters and story would work as well for our group.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 04, 2005 7:03:43 am PDT #962 of 3301
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, between the two, I think Watchmen would be a better text for discussion, particularly for people who are new to the genre. V is an excellent and arguably superior work, but I don't think the characters and story would work as well for our group.
I would ask you to elaborate on why you feel that way but it that could lead to, heh, discussion.
On a more serious note, Watchmen might also be better since there will probably be V discussion at some point, somewhere here with the movie coming out. However, I think discussing either should involve discussing the work in the larger frame of Alan Moore's work.
Not volunteering to lead, though. I wouldn't know where to start.
Connie Neil - Aug 04, 2005 7:06:26 am PDT #963 of 3301
brillig
Been ages since I've read Watchmen. I don't know where I'd find a copy.
Wolfram - Aug 04, 2005 7:27:41 am PDT #964 of 3301
Visilurking
I would ask you to elaborate on why you feel that way but it that could lead to, heh, discussion.
It's not really a big thing. Just from previous book discussions and comments made, we tend to like good juicy stories with characters we can relate to. Watchmen is full of that stuff. Not that V isn't, it just wasn't as accessible, at least to me when I read it.
Been ages since I've read Watchmen. I don't know where I'd find a copy.
I'm sure many libraries have it, I know mine does. Also online retailers like Amazon, Buy, Overstock etc. have it for around $13-$14.