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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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megan walker - May 13, 2010 8:48:27 am PDT #11370 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I'm not a big fan of the book club concept, but I'm in need of some motivation to power through my longer "should reads" for the year ( War and Peace and Don Quixote especially), so I'm trying to start a book salon at work, where we would read any book that falls within a given topic (a specific author, nationality, or theme). That way, people could choose something long or short, or read multiple books. For example, if we’re reading Dickens, and you didn’t want to tackle something like Bleak House, you could read his Christmas stories, or, if we’re reading Russian authors, you could choose a play by Chekhov, short stories by Gogol, or something like Crime and Punishment.

I want to give a few suggestions of themes and books. So far I have good lists for Classic "Boys" Adventure (The Lost World, The Count of Monte Cristo, Kidnapped, etc) and Dystopias (The Handmaid’s Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Hunger Games trilogy, Neuromancer, Brave New World, The Children of Men, V for Vendetta, 1984, etc.).

I also want to suggest "Quests" as a theme and need some more contemporary suggestions. So far I have:
Homer's Odyssey
 Don Quixote
 Le Morte d’Arthur
 The Lord of the Rings
 Virgils' Aeneid
 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
 Beowulf
 The Epic of Gilgamesh
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Any "modern classic" ideas for this?

Tom Scola - May 13, 2010 8:51:19 am PDT #11371 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Maybe you should throw Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces in for discussion purposes?

megan walker - May 13, 2010 8:53:55 am PDT #11372 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Maybe you should throw Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces in for discussion purposes?

Don't think I didn't look there first for ideas! I figure when we actually get around to the theme, I will be reading that since it's been unread on my book shelf for years.

Tom Scola - May 13, 2010 8:54:57 am PDT #11373 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Watership Down.

megan walker - May 13, 2010 8:57:30 am PDT #11374 of 28344
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Watership Down.

Oooh, good one. And a perfect excuse to re-read.

Amy - May 13, 2010 9:02:58 am PDT #11375 of 28344
Because books.

Rabbit Hill was the only bunny book I ever got around to. Except for Beatrix Potter stuff. And the Max and Ruby books, thanks to Sara.

Sophia Brooks - May 13, 2010 9:06:03 am PDT #11376 of 28344
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

No Bunnicula, Amy?!?! And The Celery Stalks at Midnight!

Fred Pete - May 13, 2010 9:07:52 am PDT #11377 of 28344
Ann, that's a ferret.

Not exactly a classic, but Stephen King's novella "The Body" (later became the movie Stand By Me) fits the quest theme.

Amy - May 13, 2010 9:09:21 am PDT #11378 of 28344
Because books.

No Bunnicula, Amy?!?! And The Celery Stalks at Midnight!

Oh, yes! I forgot! (Speaking of which, you have to read the bandom fic AU of Bunnicula, Sophia. Hysterical.)

Scrappy - May 13, 2010 9:12:22 am PDT #11379 of 28344
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

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