[EN World Book Club] Suggestions & Selectors

[nikolai]

Sam, your sig is the best way I've found of navigating the book group threads. I'm sure this is the case for a lot of other people too. With that in mind, could you changes the Tigana link to thread 68039, it's currently pointed at Dragondoom. Hope asking isn't too cheeky!

Perhaps you should link to this thread too?

 

[Sam]

Sam, your sig is the best way I've found of navigating the book group threads. I'm sure this is the case for a lot of other people too. With that in mind, could you changes the Tigana link to thread 68039, it's currently pointed at Dragondoom. Hope asking isn't too cheeky!

Perhaps you should link to this thread too?

I'll make the Tigana change now. Didn't realize it had gotten switched like that. The first link in the sig should point to this thread. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Michael Tree]

I'm all in favor of starting the 6-week reading period at the beginning of the current discussion. I would also recommend that whoever is choosing the next book to announce it as soon as they decide, rather than waiting until the beginning of the reading period.

 

[JoeBlank]

Sam, your sig is the best way I've found of navigating the book group threads.

Agreed.

Hope you won't take offense Sam, but I just copied your sig to replace my clunky, outdated Book Club sig.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, you know.

 

[Sam]

Hope you won't take offense Sam, but I just copied your sig to replace my clunky, outdated Book Club sig.

More than happy to share. Consider me flattered.

I would also recommend that whoever is choosing the next book to announce it as soon as they decide, rather than waiting until the beginning of the reading period.

With that in mind, I'm going to post my selection. I may get a lot of flak on this one, but the book is "next" on my personal reading list, so it fits in well (at least timing wise). I'm choosing Eragon by Christopher Paolini. You can find it at SFBC or Amazon. It's the first book in a series, but the sequel hasn't been published, so it's still kind of stand-alone. Based on the current timing discussion, we will start the discussion period on this selection on February 15.

 

[Dacileva]

I may get a lot of flak on this one, but the book is "next" on my personal reading list, so it fits in well (at least timing wise). I'm choosing Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

Of course you'd pick the book on my reading list that I can't easily get from my library... Aah well, I've got a few weeks to try to get it yet.

 

[JoeBlank]

This is why this Book Club is such a great idea. I have never heard of Eragon, but have now read several reviews and am very excited about this choice.

And the timing is fantastic: the SFBC is offering a 2-for-1 deal, basically buy one book and get one free. Check it out if you are already a member, the offer is online only and expires tomorrow, Dec. 16, at midnight. I'm currenly shopping for my second choice, in addition to Eragon.

 

[nHammer]

Yes, the reading period was my suggestion. Here is part of my original post on the idea:
My suggestion was for a reading period of 4 weeks which begins after the 2 week discussion period. Essentially, this creates a 6 week reading period, as the next book is announced just before the start of the discussion period of the current book. So, if using this method, the next discussion (after Pattern Recognition) would go something like this:

1. Sometime around Jan 1 Sam announces that book XYZ is going to be the next selection.
2. Discussion begins on Pattern Recognition on Jan 1. (6 weeks until next discussion begins)
3. 2 week discussion period on Pattern Recognition (Jan 1-Jan 15)
4. 4 week reading period for XYZ officially begins.
5. Discussion of XYZ starts Feb 15.

I'm not adverse to extending it a bit (starting the 6 week reading period after discusion ends, which actually gives 8 weeks from the announcement of the book to discussion), but I wouldn't suggest shortening it. As it is, I finished Tigana after the discussion period was over (too much going on at work to spend much time reading).

Yeah, what he said...I like it.

 

[JoeBlank]

Article on Eragon in the Atlanta Jounal-Constitution today. Not sure how long this link will work, I think the print edition of the AJC is avaible online for a week.

Getting excited about this pick, expect to start reading just after New Year's Day.

http://www.ajc.com/today/content/epaper/editions/today/living_f31f313f26b0007c10d1.html

 

[pezagent]

And if someone is thinking of joining the SFBC, let us know so we can "share the love".

I'm very interested in joining the SFBC when I get settled back in the States. Is there a link to the club somewhere?

I really like this thread, there's some great books in here I'd be interested in reading. I'm just getting back into reading speculative fiction again, so I'm very excited to hear about new titles. I've calculated that I have about 14,000+ sunsets left before I shuffle off this mortal coil, so I'd like to know what's worth filling my head with before I split.

/johnny