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AmorRoark said:
That's a good point. I just wouldn't want to participate because it isn't new and I'd probably find it boring (I say this after suggesting a book I've already read ;)). Just me though. I have no clue what everyone else thinks.
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Well, I figured we'd take all the suggestions and put it to a vote. That way, if it was something you already read, you wouldn't vote for it. I know not everyone is going to be happy about the selection, but you obviously can't please everyone, and the vote will allow us to please the greatest majority. Who knows? Perhaps a book that you are really excited to read will be selected. I'm not voting for any kind of feminist non-fiction though. ;)
 
AmorRoark said:
Written on the Body isn't non-fiction and it's kind of mean to women... FWIW. :p
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I didn't think it was, but I know that you really like to read those feminism books. :)
 
^ I agree with a_c (holy cow how did the thread get that long that fast?!). Man picking books for this is going to be hard. . . . I will throw mine out there even though I think Animal Farm is an excellent Idea.

A Fine Balance. It was featured on Oprah's book club. :o
My grandma gave it to me. I thought it was soooo fucking boring when I first started reading it but as I got further it became so rewarding in that it is probably the best story I have ever read. EVAR! lol. It looks like you can even buy it on amazon for a couple of bucks now.

From Publishers Weekly
The setting of Mistry's quietly magnificent second novel (after the acclaimed Such a Long Journey) is India in 1975-76, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, defying a court order calling for her resignation, declares a state of emergency and imprisons the parliamentary opposition as well as thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and journalists. These events, along with the government's forced sterilization campaign, serve as backdrop for an intricate tale of four ordinary people struggling to survive. Naive college student Maneck Kohlah, whose parents' general store is failing, rents a room in the house of Dina Dalal, a 40-ish widowed seamstress. Dina acquires two additional boarders: hapless but enterprising itinerant tailor Ishvar Darji and his nephew Omprakash, whose father, a village untouchable, was murdered as punishment for crossing caste boundaries. With great empathy and wit, the Bombay-born, Toronto-based Mistry evokes the daily heroism of India's working poor, who must cope with corruption, social anarchy and bureaucratic absurdities. Though the sprawling, chatty narrative risks becoming as unwieldy as the lives it so vibrantly depicts, Mistry combines an openness to India's infinite sensory detail with a Dickensian rendering of the effects of poverty, caste, envy, superstition,corruption and bigotry. His vast, wonderfully precise canvas poses, but cannot answer, the riddle of how to transform a corrupt, ailing society into a healthy one.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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p.s. I have never been able to get anyone to read this book and I am bitter about it because I have never been able to discuss it with anyone. lol.
 
AmorRoark said:
That's a good point. I just wouldn't want to participate because it isn't new and I'd probably find it boring (I say this after suggesting a book I've already read ;)). Just me though. I have no clue what everyone else thinks.
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i just am not sure how many people will go out and purchase a book they know almost nothing about for a book club that is just getting started. i would be a bit weary spending money/effort until i know that people will follow thru on this.

maybe there should be a poll to see who thinks like you and who thinks like me and who thinks like neither of us :p
 
Out of curiosity, why do you always use the :p? It's like Collin with attitude.

pennywise said:
I didn't think it was, but I know that you really like to read those feminism books. :)
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I just read those because I have to for my women and gender studies minor. I'm really just a self-loathing, forever-PMSing, small-minded, to-be-housewife. I plan on taking these stupid feminists down from the inside but don't tell anyone.
 
cause it moves and looks sillier than the plain old :). i also never really noticed until you pointed it out that its similar to collin's =D.

/end off topic smiley face discussion
 
Oh, ok.
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Good call about it probably needing to be online, at least at first.
 
animal_cookie said:
i just am not sure how many people will go out and purchase a book they know almost nothing about for a book club that is just getting started.
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There is no need to purchase these books. You can probably find almost any book that we end up choosing at the library. Many libraries are a part of a network of libraries, so even if they don't have the book available in the library you are at, you can probably get it through inter-library loan. Even if all the copies of the book are checked out at all the libraries, you can put the book on hold, and as soon as it becomes available they will let you know and you can pick it up. You need never spend money on any of these books, other than in late fees if you fail to return it on time. But late fees are quite small, usually around 5 cents a day, and you almost always have the option of renewing the book for another borrowing period.

If any of you don't use the library, I highly encourage you to start doing so. You don't have to pay for your books, and they usually also rent other media such as music CD's and DVD's for much cheaper than you can buy them or rent them from Blockbuster or even Netflix or whatever. They also have back copies of newspapers and magazines. Finally, most of them sell used books for a ridiculously cheap price. You can get hardback books in excellent condition for $1 or less, and paperbacks for 25-50 cents. I have a huge collection of Stephen King books that I paid less than 20 dollars for in total. I couldn't even get one of the hardcover books in a bookstore for that much, but I have probably a dozen of those hardcovers in my collection.
 
I am so down. I love to read, but I never have time! I would love to hear some more good suggestions on reading material. I'll be out of school very soon. I don't have any good titles to throw out there either because its very rare that I get to finsh a good book!
 
This is indeed an excellant idea for a thread.


I would personally like to recommend the following for consideration:

1) Ishmael - Daniel Quinn (quite possibly the best book I've ever read, period.)
2) Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut (quite possibly the second best book I've ever read)
3) Junky - William s. Burroughs (the classic of classics)
4) DMT - The Spirit Molecule - Rick Strassman, M.D.
5) Hunter S. Thomson - Songs of the doomed
6) Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance (amazing amazing read, gripping to the very end)
7) Paradise Lost - Milton
8) A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (this should be standard reading in all public schools.
9) Jack Kerouac - On the Road
10) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (this was the book the film "Apocalypse Now" was based on)

These are my comfort books, sorry for such a long list but their all so valuable an precious to me I've read them 17fold. Great Idea PW.
 
^I also would have no problem loaning these copies to anyone interested if need be, assuming you pay for shipping and take good care of them. ;)
 
Agatha Christie - 'And then there were none' (also goes by the title 'ten little indians') I dont know how many people may have already read it, its fairly short, I couldnt put it down.

For anyone who hasnt read it: its a murder mystery, the whole time I was reading it I was trying to figure out who it was. You have to read to the very end to find out, if I remember correctly, it wasnt revealed in the last chapter, it was actually its own separate little thing (I cant say chapter, because it wasnt)

Its a little hard to keep track of characters at first, because it introduces all of them at once, but theres a character list at the front of the book, so that helps, and once you actually get into it you figure out the whose who fairly quickly.
 
^I've read it. Good book, one of my mom's favorites (she love murder mysteries, she's real cute used to be obsessed with "Murder She Wrote") HEHE.
 
I know that people might have lots of suggestions of good books, but if each person could limit their official suggestion to just one book that would work a lot better. I plan on making a poll of the suggestions that people offer, and if there are too many choices it will make it difficult to actually gain a clear majority of votes.

Thanks.
 
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