Boulder Book Club discussion

I'm throwing in The Corrections, which I'm reading right now, and which is pretty fantastic.

I'm not nominating since we just read one of my picks a couple of months ago. I'm just here for moral support.

Go Team BBC!

Ggazic wrote: "I'm not nominating since we just read one of my picks a couple of months ago. I'm just here for moral support.

Go Team BBC!"

At least everyone liked your pick!!! Nobody will ever trust me again.

I'm pitching "Positively Fifth Street" as a nonfiction entry! It's a decent read, even if you have zero interest in poker. Plus, who doesn't occasionally enjoy Harper's?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

Whoa! Some good selections raining down!

I vote for Rob's book.

I sorta like the premise of Positively Fifth Street, but I truly LOVE the idea of a book club meeting at Gold Hill Inn, playing poker in fine clothes, discussing the book, and drinking brandy at a round table hopefully near a giant fire.
So I vote Rob's book.

Even though I like Google a lot, and hope we read that one too.

Over and Out.

And Williwaw, picking a book that meets mixed reviews is a rite of passage! Ben picked Spivet, Em picked Chomsky, Kevin picked Boneshaker, Mark picked East (good, but I was the only one who read it, and there was no meeting). Mark disliked Blood Meridian. Matt disliked The Handmaid's Tale.

You shoulda seen our meeting on "Zen & the Art"...

Verily, I submit that it is not possible to please everyone in this group. :)

I must amend: I didn't just dislike BM, I threw it against the foot thick spruce wall of a mountain hut, hoping to break it's spine, and Cormack McCarthy's too, by implication. similarly for Zen. The friction is half the fun, and I've got LOTS to say about this one! (I KNOW: unusual!) When shall we meet? Maybe a "test" of he Gold Hill venue?!

Thanks for the morale booster, Gina! It's interesting to see everyone's comments. I agree with much of the criticism of IoaWNaT. Especially Mark's impatience with the multiple, "unfinished" plot lines. It did wear on me a bit, so perhaps there were a few too many. Also, there are no carefully drawn characters that a reader can inhabit; there's no plot for the reader to surf. The book's strength is pure, intellectual playfulness and abstract artistic expression. There's more geometry here than story. Still, I think the strong points of the book far outweigh the weak, and the patient reader will be rewarded for sticking with it.

Williwaw wrote: "...and the patient reader will be rewarded for sticking with it. "
This book seemed like it'd be easy to pick up or put down at any point, without being (more) lost, or losing out on closure by not finishing. The ending seemed to descend into silliness - I think my rank of it would've been higher if I stopped short (although I couldn't, because I was really hoping it'd go somewhere).

Looking forward to the meeting to discuss more! Let's schedule it soon, or we won't have anything left to say in person... Gold Hill sounds good to me.

The elephant in the room is Ben's ominous comment that it'd take a college semester to do it justice. That means I'm in for a rude awakening. (or Ben is! Haha!) Oh wait, this is a thread hijack: I meant to be on IoaWNaT. Sorry. Out.

Nobody can escape IoaWNaT! When you get home from the bookstore and open Book 21, guess what's inside?

Whatever happened to our plan to read pulp fiction, a la Edgar Rice Burroughs? (Or Edna: just found another one: The Gods of Mars Revoked

Who is creating these spurious listings?

Williwaw: planning is not our strongest suit. We're like exotic parrots who are enraptured by one shiny thing and then the next, with little if any memory of what happened yesterday.

I'm in good company, then! I'm just like that!

Oooooooh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCtH2...


SHINY!