The Dapper Gentlemen of Letters discussion

anyone still interested in doing this?

Never lost interest, still waiting on Brian to assign a new book.

I'm definitely still interested.

I'm still in, too. I'm currently reading "Ready Player One", which people would probably like if they enjoyed Reamde. Now, I will say its a pretty quick read (about 365 pages) and I'm breezing through it pretty easily. However, I would not say this is destined to be a classic of American Literature.

lets crank this shit back up mutherfuckers!

Some suggestions:
Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
Binary Star by Sarah Gerard
Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
Mislaid by Nell Zink
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (okay that one's for me and non-fiction)
The Heart Goes Last: A Novel by Margret Atwood

Admittedly I may be Ronning some choices here.

Ross's books look dumb. Isn't there a new Ben Carson booK?

Mislaid by Zink looks interesting.

Mislaid NYT review

I go to Ross for my conspiracy theories not for my books.

Just trying to get a conversation started.

You would prefer another book, a fiction book? Then name the book! I grow tired of asking this so it will be the last time: /where/ is your book choice?

jim butcher has a new steampunk series!!!!!!!

John Scalzi's Old Man's War (and the rest of the series)

Of the ones listed above Dead Lands is the only one that seems interesting to me.

BTW I just started reading a book called The Mentor. Author's last name is Monticelli. Seems good so far.

are you guys (gals?) mainly interested in new books?

I wouldn't mind getting something a little older we all 'missed', for sure. That would almost be better in a way; there's more outside vetting, and I'd be more likely to pick up a new book in my normal reading, than going back and finding something I missed.

From the perspective of someone who lives on a tight fixed income, older books should be cheaper, and therefore easier for me to afford. Plunking down $12-$20+ for a book is not something I can readily do. Actually it doesn't have to be older. Just cheaper. But if you guys pick something I don't want to invest in I can just skip it.

Anybody have any suggestions of older books we should give a try?

I've never read The Handmaid's Tale and feel like I should. I also feel this is a pretty good work for group discussion. I'm guessing it has application today, 30 years after it initially came out.

Since we have a SF crowd, The Long Tomorrow also comes to mind as something I have not but should read. For something which came out 60 years ago, it's probably still an influence for today's Dystopian novels. The author, Leigh Brackett is the co-writer of The Empire Strikes Back and this book is heralded as the first serious science fiction novel of character.

I also doubt most of us have read it. We should.

I'd be very Interested in The Long Tomorrow. That would be my choice.

I'd read that.

I'm not interested in choosing the book, I much prefer to complain about the one someone else chooses.

Started on the long tomorrow. Part of what's interesting so far is that it was written so long ago.