How many of our Club Books have you read? Showing 1,451-1,500 of 1,698

[D]

Going through the read books on the bookshelves, I've read 52 and have 24 on my tbr, plus several others I've noticed and *might* read.

[Leslie]

Just joined a couple days ago. I've only read 17 of the club books, but I've read quite a few books from some of the authors represented on it (like Martha Wells and Harry Turtledove). And there are probably a couple of books I may have read a long time ago because I remember reading some of the series, but I have it on my TBR list now (like Anne McCaffery's Dragonflight). And I have about 60 or so on my TBR list...

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Fun! Now, if ever you're at a loss what to read next, you have a ton of available options!

[Will]

Hi everyone, I've just joined the group, and checked out the bookshelf. I've read 53, so off to a good start! I'm mainly interested in fantasy, so polishing the rest of the fantasy ones off seems like a good goal!

Thanks to everyone who runs this group, seems both well organised and a lot of fun!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

woohoo! good start indeed! let us know how you progress! Anna is in charge of organizing things, super glad for her skills

[Marie]

Hello,
I joined quite a bit ago but didn't participate so far. I checked the bookshelf today and I quite like the diversity of old and new, popular and less known. So I am going to start reading along.

So far I read 35 books (26 fantasy, 9 sci-fi) and 5 I put on hold.

I put 30 for the 2022 bookshelf challenge to make a dent. It's probably completely unrealistic, especially because I am already on personal challenge of reading through Cosmere/all Sanderson books this year. But we will see :D

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

i love people with ambitions! get it, Marie!

[Nelle]

Having quickly gone through your list, I've read about 84 of the book club's past reads, some for an in-person SFF book club that met pre-Covid. Some of the others are already on my TBR.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Dang! That's a pretty good start! Hopefully that means you find other great things with us ^^ (and suggest others!)

[Stephanie]

I just joined and I'm currently at 30 books. Only 2 of those 30 have been read since joining the group.

[Dennis]

Just checked and I'm at an even 70 (most of them from earlier in the list) and about 20 odd that I plan to read

[Hank]

70 is great! Enjoy the next 20

[Dj]

So I have read 108 so far it is saying that is about thirty precent.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

love hearing about starts and progression! good work!

[Reed]

I've read 2 of these so far

[Jackie]

Today as I join the group I am starting having already read 15 books off the group bookshelf. Here's my list so far with plenty to go.

Snow Crash by Stephenson, Neal
Neverwhere by Gaiman, Neil
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Herbert, Frank
The Road by McCarthy, Cormac
Watchmen by Moore, Alan
I, Robot by Asimov, Isaac
The Martian Chronicles by Bradbury, Ray
The Graveyard Book by Gaiman, Neil
The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood, Margaret
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) by Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Gaiman, Neil
American Gods by Gaiman, Neil
Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury, Ray
Watership Down by Adams, Richard
Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary

[Reed]

I read one of them but, not the rest yet

[YouKneeK]

My reading pace has been very slow this year, but I just finished my 250th book from our group shelf when I finished Solaris earlier today. :)

[Michelle]

YouKneeK wrote: "My reading pace has been very slow this year, but I just finished my 250th book from our group shelf when I finished Solaris earlier today. :)"

Holy crap! You said 250 as if that's something to sneeze at! Maybe if you let Ernest alone for five minutes you could squeeze in a few more Club books 😺

[Anna]

Woot! I don't remember what our 250 snack/beverage is, but whatever it is, you now have access to it :D

[YouKneeK]

LOL Michelle, I’m pretty happy about hitting 250 actually, it just took me a lot longer to get there than I would have expected based on how last year went. :) I can’t even blame Ernest!

Thanks Anna! I’ve lost all track of who gets what at which level so I’m just going to assume I have access to everything and take whatever I want. ;)

[Sabrina]

Congratulations YouKneeK, 250 is a huge milestone, you definitively get the all you can eat/like buffet :-)

[YouKneeK]

Thanks Sabrina! :)

[Dj]

YouKneeK wrote: "My reading pace has been very slow this year, but I just finished my 250th book from our group shelf when I finished Solaris earlier today. :)"

I think that means you should throw yourself a party.

[Jen]

I'm up to 226, I'm just a bit behind ya YouKneeK

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

y'all are fiends I tell you!

[Hank]

Nice Jen and YouKneeK! That is a big chunk of the books.

[Olga]

Well, *with* the book club I've read three so far, all of them this summer. And to think that I've joined the community a few years ago! :)

As for the bookshelf, I've counted 26 and about half a dozen are on my immediate TBR list (literally bought them yesterday and now they're looking reproachfully at me from the shelf)

[DivaDiane]

Haha! Olga, you have succumbed.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Those judgmental eyes on these books! Just be pretty, book pile!

[Ellen]

Jen and YouKneeK nice job.

[Anna]

I hadn't looked at what my number was for a while, and I'd completely forgotten even what ballpark it was in. Then I saw YKK post that she hit 250, and I remembered saying sometime in the past that I was around the same number as her, so I went to look. I needed three books to hit 250. I was also kind of behind on RATB, again, because I've read half of the 2022 books before 2022. This is nice for keeping up with the overall %, but it does make RATB harder. Anyway, I decided let's catch up to YKK, and went looking for a couple of short ones. At the same time everyone's favorite club book was mentioned once again, and I said we had a special VIP lounge for people who'd read it. I hadn't read it, so I didn't really know what we should provide for people in that lounge. So naturally I:

- read two club books to hit 249
- read Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles to celebrate hitting 250!

This is logical, yes?

So here's the thing. I still don't know what kind of mental health services we should be providing for people in the Terraphiles Lounge (whatever they are, I need them!), but no one is allowed to wear a spider hat, OK?! Also there will be no alcohol, because I'm fairly sure anyone who made it through the book did so with the help of Too Many Alkoholz. I'm looking into hiring a trauma therapist to keep on retainer, and anything you think you might need to help you through this difficult time, *anything at all*, just ask and the mods will do their best to make sure you have it! There is also a large vat of electric eels in case you need to be shocked back into life/consciousness.

Whew, onto the next one, which I expect to enjoy :)

[YouKneeK]

Congrats Anna, especially on finishing (and surviving) one of the most dreaded books on the shelf!

Did you read it with or without any familiarity with Doctor Who? I don't really know much about Doctor Who myself, so I feel like I should watch at least some of the show before I get around to that book so I have some clue what's going on. I expect I'd probably like the show, but I don't really have the time for it, or at least I don't currently want to spend what time I do have in that way. Someday though!

[Ellen]

Anna congrats on finishing the Doctor Who book.
My 23 yo son gave me emotional support while I was was reading Terraphiles "I can't believe you are reading that". As part of my treatment and recovery the day after finishing I dropped my hard back copy into the library donation box ( can't believe I purchased the thing). I do feel a bit guilty because some innocent Doctor Who fan may buy it and read it.

[Marie]

How did that even get in the book club shelf?

[Anna]

Marie, I really don’t know 😂

YKK, I have never seen a single episode of the show, I just barely know there’s a Doctor, a companion, a tardis and Däleks(?) Daleks? Something with a d 😅 The book is about aliens playing old-timey Englishmen and the theft of a spider hat, so I’d say you probably know enough to read it without watching anything. That said, maybe Whovians could enjoy aspects of it that I didn’t notice?

Ellen, I’m glad you had emotional support! 😊

[Jen]

Does anyone have a copy of this awful Doctor Who book they'd be willing to sell me? Or any tips on where to find it cheap? I'd like to check it off the list but I'm just not willing to pay full price for it.

[Ellen]

Jen wrote: "Does anyone have a copy of this awful Doctor Who book they'd be willing to sell me? Or any tips on where to find it cheap? I'd like to check it off the list but I'm just not willing to pay full pri..."

Ebay has it starting at $4.29 with free shipping. Where I got mine.

[YouKneeK]

Anna wrote: "YKK, I have never seen a single episode of the show, I just barely know there’s a Doctor, a companion, a tardis and Däleks(?) Daleks? Something with a d 😅"

Haha, it sounds like we’re at about the same level of Doctor Who knowledge then.

I figure one of two things will happen: I’ll finally get around to watching the show and then fit the book in, or I’ll read it when it’s the very last book from our shelf that I haven’t read. Neither of these things are likely to happen in the near future!

[Michelle]

I haven't watched Dr. Who since the...70's maybe? The actor had the shaggy curly hair. It really didn't do much for me even back then.

[CBRetriever]

the more recent ones have been better: David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston, a woman for the current one and the next one will be Black. It's no longer as much of a kid's show

[Anna]

(Fun anecdote: The first time I heard someone talking about daleks I thought they meant the band dälek* and that's probably why to this day I'm confused about the spelling. I had never even heard of Doctor Who then, and yes I was an adult :D

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A4lek)

[Ian]

I was a long-time Whovian, and have just as long felt that until quite recently the BBC had never quite adjusted to the fact that their cheap show for children was being watched by a lot of adults -- except for introducing the occasional "scantily-clad" young woman as one the Doctor's Companions, presumably for any teen-age boys, or men, who might be catching it with the main audience of children.

Eventually they woke up to the fact that it had a large adult audience, and even began to reconsider moral issues that had been glossed over in the early years, like whether it had been morally responsible to destroy the planet of the Cybermen with the weapon they were trying to use to destroy the Earth (if I recall the situation correctly).

The show's fan following became a minor piece of recurring business on "Criminal Minds," taking for granted that some very intelligent people were fans, and were willing to overlook cheap-looking sets and really bad makeup to enjoy the stories.

And some of the story ideas were really quite good, although sometimes they didn't seem so original if you had already read a lot of classic science fiction.

The novelizations from the series are a very mixed bag, some of them showing care and attention to detail not visible in the actual production, some of them barely more than shooting scripts with a little connecting prose, which in the absence of visuals makes for a very flat reading experience.

There is also the problem of whether the writer decides to assume that the reader knows the background mythology, or needs it explained. Either one will be a problem for some of the readership (as it is for new viewers of the series).

[Anna]

(I didn't even know it was a kids' show.)

[SFF in NH]

Anna wrote: "(I didn't even know it was a kids' show.)"

That's why in the original there were two teachers on the TARDIS in addition to the Doctor and the Companion -- one history teacher and one science teacher. The original idea was to alternate a past episode with a future episode and have the teacher characters teach the Companion (and the children in the audience) about the topic of the day.

Needless to say the conceit was dropped, and as a child I was terrified by the show as my parents watched it. (I was so terrified that it took decades for me to even consider watching another episode.)

[Ian]

There is a Wikipedia article (well, several) for the curious. But it is probably going to be tedious to those not seriously interested in it, at least as a pop-culture phenomenon that got out of hand.

It began in 1963, and ran through 1989, with different actors playing the "regenerating" title character (who is properly just "The Doctor"). And it was relaunched (in its more adult version) in 2005. So there is a lot of history built into the show for older fans, at least.

The recent versions have also had to plaster over a lot of cracks in continuity, or reboot some basics. Rather like DC and Marvel Comics, with their decades-worth of accumulated assumptions to be made consistent and presently acceptable.

[Bonnie]

Congratulations to Jen, YouKneek, Anna.
Fine work!

[Dj]

Anna wrote: "Marie, I really don’t know 😂

YKK, I have never seen a single episode of the show, I just barely know there’s a Doctor, a companion, a tardis and Däleks(?) Daleks? Something with a d 😅 The book is ..."

I remember a friend tried to get me to watch it when I was in High School I had to leave the room when the K9 came out and it was a Vacuum Cleaner. Just couldn't handle the extraordinarily bad special effects. I have seen a few of the newer ones, The Effects are better but I still don't get into the show much. I have started to book and am hoping that Moorcock can make it readable. Of course, I am not a huge Elric fan so it is a small hope.

[Meredith]

Every time this book comes up in discussion here, I am more and more intrigued by its alleged awfulness. Now, I'm thinking I might have to find a copy and read it as my 200th shelf read. That should be sometime next year (I'm at 172 currently).

[Dj]

Meredith wrote: "Every time this book comes up in discussion here, I am more and more intrigued by its alleged awfulness. Now, I'm thinking I might have to find a copy and read it as my 200th shelf read. That shoul..."

That should give you something to look forward to. LOL