Anyone want to try doing a group read?

[Docxen]

Lets try a group read but take our time a month or two give people time to find the book and read it with all the crazyness going on around us. So ideas , suggestions, topics, more/less time than a month or two?

[Rodney]

I'm a fairly busy person. Two months works for me to start. I would like to say that if possible I would like to avoid series. I have a completist problem and don't need a series to start.

[Rodney]

I'm a fairly busy person. Two months works for me to start. I would like to say that if possible I would like to avoid series. I have a completist problem and don't need a series to start.

[Docxen]

Works for me we need someway to do options and vote

[Rodney]

Doc. Start us off with an official suggestion. Maybe Wendy, Nicole, and the others will follow up with one

[Docxen]

Ok this might sound dumb but i wouldn't mind doing a classic comparing contrasting from what we thought doing hs. Maybe mcbeth? anyone else if not i'm open to anything except romance.

[Rodney]

A classic huh? I'll be honest, I would rather skip the Shakespeare. Would like to start with a sci fi or fantasy to try and draw in more Goliverse members. However, if everyone else would like it I can go with it. I will make an official pitch for "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. Heard they are shopping it for a series

[Docxen]

wow cheapest i can find that is 20 bucks for nook.. i would do that for you rod but maybe anyone else we set a 9.99 limit ?

[Rodney]

Didn't realize it was that much. Have you tried paperback swap.com? Good website for swapping books

[Docxen]

Ok trying to find a book was hard found one i'm wanting to read soon how about "The Day The Magic Stopped" by Christopher Stasheff (Editor) maybe we can do a different thread for each story. 6.99 on nook/kindle .01 to buy a used copy.

[Steve]

I've heard good things about "The Martian" by Andy Weir. It's apparently about an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars.

[Steve]

If we can get a list of about seven books I will put a poll up on the facebook and we can let the vote go for a couple of weeks and then it's off the races and I will talk about it in a couple of months on GOL. In the book club section. Which I will add to the lineup.

[Wendy]

I'm not ready for mcbeth. Sounds too brainy for me. Maybe The Hobbit? With all the Hobbit flicks out it may be fun to do a compare/contrast thing, if we liked or disliked the changes? Or is it too soon?

[Steve]

I feel like McBeth begs for a multi-part bad impersonations theatre.

So someone compile the suggestions and let me know.

[Nicole]

I love McBeth. Pretty sure I still have my copy from high school.

[John]

How about a collection of short stories like Ray Bradbury's _Illustrated Man_?

[John]

There's also _Ender's Game_, _1984_, _Fahrenheit 451_

[John]

_It's Superman_ by Tom DeHaven is a good one too.

[Docxen]

oh john i read the illustarated man really good

[Jennifer]

Take a list at my READ books. I have some good ones on there. I would like to throw out some suggestions:

Neverwhere by Gaiman
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Any of the Discworld books by Pratchett
Good Omens, Bad Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
The Name of the Wind by Rothfuss
Any of the books by Jennifer Fallon
Furies of Calderon by Butcher

[SciFiNow]

Jennifer wrote: "Take a list at my READ books. I have some good ones on there. I would like to throw out some suggestions:

Neverwhere by Gaiman
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Any of the Discworld books by Pratchett
Go..."

Great recommendations I have actually read all of those except any of the discworld novels, that series is just too vast for me. I would recommend the entire dresden series as well as the codex alera series they are great.

[Docxen]

good thing about discworld there are like series in the series ex first 2 or 3 is about a wizard...other books touch on each other but you don't have to like remember a lot to enjoy them.

[SciFiNow]

Docxen wrote: "good thing about discworld there are like series in the series ex first 2 or 3 is about a wizard...other books touch on each other but you don't have to like remember a lot to enjoy them."

still overwhelming when there are literally 39 novels and counting haha are the best ones in the beginning? Do they get better or worse as they go? Ive been interested for a while

[Docxen]

oh wow well my favorite character is death and his set is about the middle ..hard to say you know nostalgia remember the great stuff from the first sets and not the bad i just love the whole set and check library might find the first ones to read for free see if you like it.