Does that make Lance Roy, or Connor?

Tough question, but I'm going to go Connor, with Trace in the Roy slot.

And then I'm going to shoot myself in the head and forget I've ever mapped this.

ahahahahahahahahaha

Hot Boy on Bat Sex!

You skip a hundred posts, and come up NSYNC.

See why you should read buffistas constantly?

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I have to say I'm really against having any sort of designated discussion leader. Right now, I still haven't decided how I'm voting, but having something like that would absolutely push me to "no."

Also, I'm in favor of simple and mostly random ways of picking books. Either (a) everybody who wants to suggest something suggests it, and then the books are randomly chosen from those, or (b) everyone who wants to be a book-suggester says so, and then each of them is randomly assigned a month to suggest a book. I'd really really really rather not have a long discussion or voting to determine what to read; I'd rather have a simple mechanism to decide it, so that the focus of the thread can be the actual books, not discussion of which books deserve to be read.

Agree with Hil on the simplicity thing.

I'd rather have a simple mechanism to decide it, so that the focus of the thread can be the actual books, not discussion of which books deserve to be read.

But that's part of deciding which book to read, isn't it? You'd sort of have to suggest it, pitch it, and see what happens...not unlike where to have the F2F, right?

I think I'm arguing from Worst Case Scenario.

"The Evil Romance Novel Cabal Always Wins and My Coming of Age Sci-Fi Clown College Dentisty for the Teenage Soul Book Never Gets Picked and It's So UNFAIR!"

Again, I'm a fan of bullshit consensus, and I'd be happiest (and I think it's sort of fun) for folks to sort of pimp for their favorite books, because then, there's all kinds of good recommendations, as well.

"The Evil Romance Novel Cabal Always Wins and My Coming of Age Sci-Fi Clown College Dentisty for the Teenage Soul Book Never Gets Picked and It's So UNFAIR!"

This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list. I really don't want to start getting into stuff like that, and I can see it happening very easily.

Well, we could have a week each month or maybe a day every two weeks in which books get suggested, because it would be better to have books lined up well in advance of when they are going to be discussed.

(I belong to my local library book club -- the leader of the discussion is one of the librarians. She makes the list for the year during the summer and is open to suggestions. Most of the books aren't the newest out there-- because she has to obtain copies for the whole group largely through inter-library loan.)

This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list.

That's cool. Or when it comes time to choose the next book, we can designate a post number about fifty posts ahead, and whoever successfully numbersluts for it gets to choose the next book, and then you get about fifty posts in a row of people just posting "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "SLUT!" "IN YOUR FACE, TROLLOPE PIMPS!" Only then one month you'll have a tie as two people grab the same number, and then we go to a whore-off.

This is one of the reasons I prefer just having every suggest a book or two, and then randomly picking from that list.

So much "yes" as to be infinite.