Young Writers discussion

I think it would be really fun and interesting to do a group read. Where every month there is a book that the whole group is encouraged to read. Then we can discuss it.
The only problem, I really have no idea what we could all read. So here please put down your suggestions for what you want to read, then from there, maybe we'll do a poll to decide the book.

LOLITA

LIGHT OF LIFE,
FIRE OF MY LOINS
LO-LEE-TA

I'm genuinely surprised you didn't say One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Well, that was the first book that came to mind, obviously, but I thought Lolita would be more appropriate.

I hardly think Lolita's appropriate. At all.

Fine then. Instead of reading Lolita, why don't we read

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

GOD DANG THAT BOOK IS SO DELICIOUS IT'S LIKE A CAKE OF GOOD WRITING AND AWESOME STORY SO TASTY IN MY TUMMY

Well, is One Hundred Years of Solitude appropriate for a kids group?

BAHAHA HECK NO IT ISN'T.

If Lolita can't pass, there is no way OHYoS could. It's got like, quadruple the pedophilia. Plus incest. And a lot of normal sex too. Oh, and I'm pretty sure there is some bestiality in there.

Let's not even get into the OTHER stuff.

*facepalm* I'm sorry Baxter, then I'm pretty sure we won't be reading either...

Devoured by Amanda Marrone

Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce. Or maybe not. It's a really really good book but not quite the style of writing most people like.

I think a group read is great idea, but I don't know what to read either. My mind is blank right now.

Umm what about a book by John Green, like Paper Towns?

YES. SOMETHING BY HIM.

I've been meaning to read some Green for a while now.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie!
The Mysterious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

He sounds good (John Green).

What about my suggestions? Meeeeeeeeeeeeeh.... (During this proper grammar am I allowed to use smiley faces?)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen :D

Have you read that?

It's in my trunk.

Pride and Prejudice is one of my favs

i suggest we narrow it down to a genre or basic theme

classic
sci-fi
vamps
werewolves
faeries
... im blanking
other

Nahhh. Narrowing it down is silly.

then this is gonna go on forever

Eh, if you just keep it YA then it will be pretty easy to decide on one.

thats true (and narrowing it down). but it does count out classics. on th other hand maybe thats a good thing haha

Yes. A very good thing. I mean, classic's are good in theory, but in actuality I don't have the attention span to read them.

yeah even my mom doesnt like them. it takes a while for me to read them also. and i cant read anything else

Commander Ken-chan wrote: "Devoured by Amanda Marrone"

i've been wanting to read this also

Madeline wrote: "Commander Ken-chan wrote: "Devoured by Amanda Marrone"

i've been wanting to read this also"

cool

and i just checked and i can get it from the library.wohoo. so im totally open to that pick. just saying

I've already read Paper Towns. YA is cool and all but I'd be kind of disappointed if you limited yourself to such.

We decided that because we have people as young as 11 or 12 who still have sort of innocent minds and we don't want anything too inappropriate.

If there's enough people you could have two books going, I suppose.

Two books is a good idea.

i agree.

and really you only need like at the very least three people for each book

I agree. And then if one is more adultish people who are fine with that can read it.

I'd be all for those two Dayna, but I'm pretty sure those are required reading for everybody. They were for me at least.

I'm going to suggest...those other books from that guy who wrote Uglies and whatever. Apparently one is a very intelligent sci-fi book that looks at it realistically and all that. And sense most people here have probably read his young adult stuff, there will be a good little stepping ground for everybody.

There we go, Scott Westerfield. I knew his name had an S in it.

Maybe the 'innocent' (as you so quaintly put it) group could read Uglies?

Ooohooohoooh we could read Agatha Christie books? Murder on the Orient Express was really good!

Indecisive Dayna wrote: "Do you know the title of this book?"

...Not as such, no.

And Agatha Christie is a grand idea I think.

Aw shucks what about And Then There Were None? I haven't read it but I want to! Or the library one? Or the caribean cruise one?

I read that when I was 9 but I got bored and depressed.

I...I have never read The Diary of Anne Frank.

Weeeeeell I didn't think it was that obvious, but alright. If you insist.

Fine then, I will. And I'll enjoy it too! So take THAT!

Darn tootin' I did.

Okay okay, I'll go download it right now.

Gracious no, I WISH I did. But nah, I'm just putting it on my computer is all.