Book Club Suggestions..

[freydis]

Just bought and started Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey. I think this is a book a lot of us would dig. Not too far into it yet, so people could cath up easily if they wanted to do that one.....

[creatureofthenyte]

NeedfulThings by Stephen King was pretty good.

[Burrich1]

Psst, I know this is late starting, and we discussed this a couple weekends ago at CC, but I'm ready to start "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" starting today. I am going to read two chapters a day. We can discuss if you like

Sounds good to me. I will find it tonight, and will catch up with you by tomarrow.

[Kit Kat P]

Give me a day or two to buy the book and catch up; but then I'll be right w/ ya giving you my unwanted, poor grammer, bad spelling, two cents.

[hunhee]

Give me a day or two to buy the book and catch up; but then I'll be right w/ ya giving you my unwanted, poor grammer, bad spelling, two cents.

I highly doubt that, BUT I will definitely delight in your opinion.

[jadnifer]

I would love to be a part of this. Maybe if there were only a couple of us that wanted to read the book we could talk about it through PMs. Also, maybe we should all start the book at the same time so we arent giving each other any spoilers and we are all on the same page at the same time.

I also received some books for Christmas. I got five novels by Charles Dickens. I am almost done with Oliver Twist. I also got The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned of the Vampire chronicles by Anne Rice.

I know a lot of us have read The Interview with the Vampire and have seen the movie. Maybe we could talk about the book and the movie and the differences between the two? Just a suggestion.

[Kit Kat P]

Hunhee you might want to start a new thread for each book discussion. BTW I'm now on chap 8 if you were looking to start a discussion

[Fierce Critter]

I'm about to start "The Zookeeper's Wife." I heard about it on NPR, and have been waiting forever for a hold on it to come through at the library.

From Amazon.com:

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses) tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity, sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their villa and in animal cages and sheds. Using Antonina's diaries, other contemporary sources and her own research in Poland, Ackerman takes us into the Warsaw ghetto and the 1943 Jewish uprising and also describes the Poles' revolt against the Nazi occupiers in 1944. She introduces us to such varied figures as Lutz Heck, the duplicitous head of the Berlin zoo; Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, spiritual head of the ghetto; and the leaders of Zegota, the Polish organization that rescued Jews. Ackerman reveals other rescuers, like Dr. Mada Walter, who helped many Jews pass, giving lessons on how to appear Aryan and not attract notice. Ackerman's writing is viscerally evocative, as in her description of the effects of the German bombing of the zoo area: ...the sky broke open and whistling fire hurtled down, cages exploded, moats rained upward, iron bars squealed as they wrenched apart. This suspenseful beautifully crafted story deserves a wide readership. 8 pages of illus. (Sept.)

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[jadnifer]

I will have to see if I can get myself a copy of this book. It sounds very good. Thanks for the info, FC.

[hunhee]

Hunhee you might want to start a new thread for each book discussion. BTW I'm now on chap 8 if you were looking to start a discussion

I did.. It's here http://www.detroitgothic.net/t20130.html

[torn asunder]

gaf, "stranger in a strange land" is in my home library - great read!

my recent favorite though, has to be "house of leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

look inside the book here!!

[jadnifer]

gaf, "stranger in a strange land" is in my home library - great read!

my recent favorite though, has to be "house of leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski

look inside the book here!!

That looks like a REALLY good book.

[TomCat]

The End of Days, Joel Rosenberg.

[jadnifer]

The End of Days, Joel Rosenberg.

Isn't that a movie with Arnold Schwartzenegger in it?

[torn asunder]

That looks like a REALLY good book.

seriously, it fucked with my head - i was kinda paranoid & suspicious & just odded during the book & for like a week or so after... really got into my head, but it was awesome! i'm going to be reading it again soon!

[TomCat]

Isn't that a movie with Arnold Schwartzenegger in it?

Nope, this one is more about modern terrorists.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Deciding to weigh in like 9 billion years later... Intentionally leaving out non-fiction of the type i'd normally read since i know it wont go over very well, and also leaving out stuff i've already read , a list of some stuff i figure i SHOULD have read already but havent, (or read so long ago i barely remember it) and would if there was some motivation:

1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

No Brainer, one of the often listed greatest-ever works, Just never got around to it.

2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Got an A on a book report for this one, but only skimmed the first paragraph of each chapter. Oops.

3. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Read a few others by her but never this one, considered her masterpiece.

4. Ubik By Philip K. Dick

One of the pillars of classic sci fi i've yet to read.

5. Snow Crash By Neil Stepherson

Second only to Neuromancer in its impact on modern sci fi. Never got around to it.

6. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Similar to Anna, often listed as one of the before-you-die books.

7. Watchmen by Allen Moore (any excuse to re-read this one.

The only graphic novel often sited as a great work of world literature The Dark Knight Returns/Sandman being rare runners-up.

8. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Started it twice, determined to finish it one of these decades.

9. Middlemarch by George Elliot

10. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

[Raven]

'Dominion' & 'Redemption' by English Gothic author Wayne Sharrocks are both pretty good dark psychological thrillers.

Also, 'Stainless' by Todd Grimson, which is a very contemporary vampire tale.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

'Dominion' & 'Redemption' by English Gothic author Wayne Sharrocks are both pretty good dark psychological thrillers.

Also, 'Stainless' by Todd Grimson, which is a very contemporary vampire tale.

Totally ignorant of these names.

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Ooooh is this happening?

[hunhee]

Ooooh is this happening?

I'm in if you're in.

[TheOsakaKoneko]

I'm in if you're in.

Sounds pretty kickass to me. But it would be most kickass if the book was on Gutenberg. Then I can read it at work and not buy a book. Good for 2 very awesome reasons.

[hunhee]

Sounds pretty kickass to me. But it would be most kickass if the book was on Gutenberg. Then I can read it at work and not buy a book. Good for 2 very awesome reasons.

Good Idea.. there's tons of books on it.. what's your fancy?

[TheOsakaKoneko]

Good Idea.. there's tons of books on it.. what's your fancy?

Always a tough decision. I read a lot of books on there. I just finished 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and am contemplating my next one. I wonder if we can get anyone else involved!