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This is not much of a book club

My two cents fellas:

1. This is no way to run a book club.

2. I would suggest two things: a) get more organized with a book of the month program (or short story of the week program) where members read the assigned book/story for further discussion; and b) talk about individual authors or books per thread. The above don't have to be forum-run. Individuals can start their own book of the month. So, for example, I could start a thread on the book "Sense and Sensibility" and ask others to join me.

3. No one wants a book club forum that veers off topic, like a lot of the threads on this forum. I came here for literature discussions and dammit, that's ALL I want!

I'm sorry for being so blunt given my newbie status. Just my observations.

Thanks, mate!

Thanks for your cuntribution!

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You're welcum.

Have you maybe tried to find a literature forum?
You might have better luck.

I belong to two different lit forums. Actually, I'm a regular member of a half dozen forums, mostly general off-topic stuff and one art forum. I'm getting bored with a couple of them and went hunting for another one and landed here via a forum directory. It seemed interesting...at first. Now, I'm not too sure. This forum is like a whole bunch of other forums populated by teeny-boppers or 20-somethings who can't utter a paragraph without some smack words/phrases thrown in. I'm kinda sick of them, actually.

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Originally posted by Lantana
I'm a snooty cunt whose ideal night is spent feeding my three hundred cats.

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I like to think we're at least 10-15% more witty than most other "forums populated by teeny-boppers or 20-somethings who can't utter a paragraph without some smack words/phrases thrown in."

I mean, not me personally or anything, just by and large.

mmmtravis you won't give that shithole Vegas his due. yet Lantana seems to be an expectional cunt for all her forums she's part of.
how many times can we say how wrong she is?

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1) Nobody wants a Welcome-thread-loving idiot-noob telling them how to run their forum.

2) If you want to start a discussion about a book, read a book and start a thread.

She's right though. Not that it matters on this forum. Errr biatch.

You'd find a website like Goodreads far more useful than forum hopping and hoping for the gem of sterile, mature conduct.

I have always thought of this as more of a "book truncheon" actually.

I think this thing was Ed G under a different cognomen.

-m

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Originally posted by Coincidence
She's right though. Not that it matters on this forum. Errr biatch.

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Look to Smug for the fantasy reccomendations. Science fiction I do enjoy.

I'll reccomend two books, though:

A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute. A true classic in its own way, it is probably one of the best novels written in the last century.

The Hot Zone , by Richard Preston. Fascinating and horrifying by turns, it just might make you think.

simon before you die, listen to ssimon about well about anything.

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the hot zone isn't fantasy sadly. the cobra event is his fantasy workings

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The Hot Zone was true.

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"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it." -Douglas Adams

there are three points of ebola

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"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it." -Douglas Adams

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Originally posted by Gunstar_Hobo
Haha never noticed before but it actually says

Asylum Book Club
Scheduled group reads and general book discussion. [Bookclub]

I'd be down with something like that.

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Originally posted by Mordecai
That was the original idea, before anyone realized that organizing this group into doing anything of the sort was far less useful and likely than herding cats. After that, it just became the book forum.

I think it's generally better that way, and fuck the random cunt who wandered in and made a sole contribution of saying 'this sucks', because that's on the level with canadian criticism of america(stupid and hypocritical).

-m

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The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin is relevant and a fast read.

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Originally posted by Vegas
We could try and start a real book club. Everyone gets to pick a book for all of us to read. I promise not to pick a business book if Crika promises not to pick Axler and Fiend promises to not post unless sober.

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I read Brave New World, dammit.

As did I, I just failed to offer any commentary.

Structure, we're not so good at it.

-m