Separating discussions is one thing-- creating an LotR thread to keep it from derailing natter-- but creating them of whole cloth when we feel like it is kind of a bad precedent to set.

Is this really so different, though? I mean, for me the biggest argument in favor is that I think the separation will improve the discussion - but the flip side to the argument is exactly to keep it from derailing the Lit thread as it has developed.

By then there are new recs, not a lot of discussion.

So encourage the discussion. If SoandSo recced a book and you read it and come back, address SoandSo. "Took your rec and thought it sucked!" or whatever.

Not trying to be a hardass, but to me it's seeming more and more that a Book Club thread isn't so much about "discussing specific books" but not wading through other peoples' posts while you do it. And, no offense meant to anyone, but I don't see why we should start generating threads based on that. I'm not up to speed on the Bat-family...should I split off from Jossverse and propose a thread that talk only about Powers so's I don't have to wade through Plei's (very illuminating, really, no insult) lengthy treatise on Dick Grayson's fffaaaabulous butt?

You don't consider it to have been answered?

No, I wasn't clear.

I was curious about it; I'm glad Jessica asked it that's all I meant.

Not trying to be a hardass, but to me it's seeming more and more that a Book Club thread isn't so much about "discussing specific books" but not wading through other peoples' posts while you do it.

Actually, you have it backwards. It's not about not being bothered with other people's posts, it's about them not having to deal with upmty-hundred posts about one thing they want nothing to do with.

It's not about not being bothered with other people's posts, it's about them not having to deal with upmty-hundred posts about one thing they want nothing to do with.

Well, then I'm here to say that that's not a problem for me. I can scroll and scroll until I find someone talking about something I like, or start a parallel conversation.

OK, so, let's hear from those people-- the lit thread readers who want nothing to do with book club.

I thought the thing was that literary was unsatisfying; for whom is it so satisfying that sustained book discussion is a major inconvenience?

I think I'm getting distracted from my original point and idea (it's weird when you find yourself defending stuff you feel like you didn't say). I want discussion of the kind I can't get in Literary- whether that means however many of us have to get together and decide to read whatever book in whatever thread is fine. If no one wants to we don't have to build a whole thread around it, if it's not going to bother the people who really think of Literary as a thread they inhabit, we can do it there. I just want to have a really, really, good, meaty, occasionally wrongheaded and loopy, but always facinating and revealing discussion about a book.

I am in favor of a book club within Literary. I'd participate if I had time, which is debateable. I'd read the discussion even if I didn't have time to read the book and/or discuss the book.

Have any current literary denizens expressed worry about a book club taking over the thread? As once such denizen, I think it would be a great thing for a thread that is pretty unfocussed most of the time, and (recent events notwithstanding) low-traffic. It would make literary much better for me, I am not worried about being spoiled (most books being less about the HSQ than, say, Angel) and um, yeah, petering out here. Yes.

I want discussion of the kind I can't get in Literary-

I just want to have a really, really, good, meaty, occasionally wrongheaded and loopy, but always facinating and revealing discussion about a book.

I'm just sayin' I think you *can* get that sort of discussion in Literary. I don't know the reason you *haven't*, but I can think of no logical reason for it. Based on that, my vote is a resounding "No".

I'm just sayin' I think you *can* get that sort of discussion in Literary.

This is why I suggested earlier that we beta test it in-thread, letting the result dictate the need or not for a new thread.