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Bluelight Book Club: Poll

Are you interested in joining a Bluelight Book club?

  • Hell Yes!

    Votes: 18 58.1%

  • Hell No!

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 12 38.7%

  • Other: Explain

    Votes: 1 3.2%
  • Total voters
    31
I'm down.

I think there should be as little deliberation as possible regarding the selection of titles.

As far as I've noticed on this site our tastes seem to be as numerous and expansive as our minds.

I think it might be of some interest to tackle topics relative to the nature of this site--namely drug use.

I think a good number of us would be able to empathize with characters moving through territories that we have already explored.

:)


We should also be able to draw from a more interesting source than the local library, unless of course cost is a serious consideration.

www.amazon.com might be a good place to order new and used editions.

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I vote sections.

A regular series of deadlines will keep the discussions lively and on track.



It will also keep my head in the book long enough to finish it in the time allotted.

I tend to read more than one topic/book at a time all the time.
 
I think we should really only deliberate once every 6 months or so on titles then we will get a selection that is not stuck in the minutia of one genre. Even though this is a drug related site i have been sober for some time and do not find what i once found interesting. The point of me introducing a book club is to expand peoples normal reading boundaries so i may effectively enhance or influence their writing. That being said, perhaps we can start out the book club with a drug book and than move on into other things?


Depending on how much participation we get, I can always post free online sources for supplimentary reading if there was enthusiasm for one genre or writers work.

Also i like the quarter of a book a week idea. That should be around 75 pages per week if you think the average book is 300 pages.


I think that amazon is a great resource but price often times can hinder participation. Perhaps a compromise and say after 3 months chose a more new selection that way participation is up and people will be more likely to purchase a book?

I do like you suggestions noods but i see problems with most suggestions i or anyone comes up with. Perhaps we should throw these ideas into a hat and pick randomly.



Noodle said:
I'm down.

I think there should be as little deliberation as possible regarding the selection of titles.

As far as I've noticed on this site our tastes seem to be as numerous and expansive as our minds.

I think it might be of some interest to tackle topics relative to the nature of this site--namely drug use.

I think a good number of us would be able to empathize with characters moving through territories that we have already explored.

:)


We should also be able to draw from a more interesting source than the local library, unless of course cost is a serious consideration.

www.amazon.com might be a good place to order new and used editions.

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I vote sections.

A regular series of deadlines will keep the discussions lively and on track.



It will also keep my head in the book long enough to finish it in the time allotted.

I tend to read more than one topic/book at a time all the time.
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up all night said:
Definitely no more than once a month. I'd probably have the time tbh, but I don't want to spend all my time only reading books for BL when I have a stack of books next to my bed that I'm hanging out to read.
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That's kind of my opinion. I have too much on my want to read/own and haven't read list already.
 
up all night said:
Also, I don't like the idea of breaking the book down into weekly sections at all. That being said, maybe people could do that if they want to, and then the people who would rather just come in at the end of the month and discuss the book as a whole if that's what they'd prefer.
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This.

I think that the weekly breaking it down option should be available for people who are particularly enthusiastic about it, but you can also have the end of the month discussion that everyone can take part in....I don't see any reason it needs to be an either/or proposition...
 
Alright I think we have had enough responses to make this happen.

I will start a new thread in about a week with the details.

I think now we should concern ourselves with books to pick. Something i have been thinking of especially since we all have books on our to read list is to list somethings that you are waiting to read and some old classics that have been good reads. Ill pick them at random and set up the next 6 months.

does this sound good to everyone?
 
I nominate Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino as a book for consideration!
 
sounds good

I've been wanting to read Siddhartha by Hermann Hess for some time. It is short and supposedly one of his best books.

Also, Paulo Cohelo (author of The Alchemist) is awesome.
 
Mehm said:
sounds good

I've been wanting to read Siddhartha by Hermann Hess for some time. It is short and supposedly one of his best books.

Also, Paulo Cohelo (author of The Alchemist) is awesome.
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Siddhartha is definitely a good one for this club- a great read on a great subject, plus it is short and can be finished in one sitting.
 
just my opinion here, but breaking this down into the 'so much a week' thing kind of negates the 'once a month' thing.

however if thats the way we do it, i guess i can hang. i read a LOT. i don't think it should be so formal though... so many chapters per week. maybe once a week we should just chime in and say what we think so far. then at the end of the month, we can discuss it hard core.

if we're nominating books now, then I nominate The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin
 
i thought i had said this already but turns out i thought it instead. We are going to do the discussion once a month thing but i think for the people prone to needing a schedule we will also have a weekly chat. So there will be two threads per book. The once a month thread and the weekly thread. feel free to pop in and read the discussion or not if you do not want a spoiler.
 
^ We could probably just have the once a month thread in the weekly thread. It's not going to make any difference. I don't think it's a good idea to split the chat up.
 
up all night said:
^ We could probably just have the once a month thread in the weekly thread. It's not going to make any difference. I don't think it's a good idea to split the chat up.
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explain what you mean. I was thinking something similar as i wrote it but i want your opinion on this.
 
For the SO book club we had one thread and used NSFW tags for any type of spoiler so those that weren't on the same track as every one else in the book could read the thread and not worry too much about spoilers.

Personally I like the idea of 2 different threads more than using NSFW tags and I think it would work better for discussion.
 
After i posted that spork i was entertaining the notion that perhaps this would kill the sense of inclusiveness that a book thread would have. By seperating the two types of readers we are not engendering a communal response but rather a splinter cell of ideas that will hopefully recombine at the end of the month in some cumulative exploratory dialogue.

thoughts?
 
I can see the merits of two threads, but I don't think there will be enough traffic to support it. The NSFW tags are a good idea. I just think splitting the discussion up will make it a more difficult to have everyone included and will make for less interesting discussion. If there were more people involved, say 20 or 30, it may work okay to have two threads, but with only around 10 people I think it will result in both threads stagnating.

Also, there's a TV show in Australia called the First Tuesday Book Club and you can find the books they've read here: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/archive/

Maybe one of those would be good?
 
hey i really like this idea and am glad someone suggested it... i do a lot of reading, but scholarly and otherwise as im a third year double major student....

people don't value reading as much as they used to.. so i love to see people talking about reading and what have you..

hip hip hooray!
 
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