Suggest a book for the book club idea

[Ben]

I'd say we should try a shorter, relatively easy one at first. We did Pynchon's V. last time and it was a disaster (great book, though, of course).

Anyone have any ideas?

[Ben]

Something from the last twenty years, clear prose, highly regarded, perhaps a famous author's most famous book.

[toph]

Yeah Pynchon is a recipe for disaster. It's no wonder that didn't work.

[Ben]

"Something from the last twenty years, clear prose, highly regarded, perhaps a famous author's most famous book."

Yeah, I agree. Something like White Noise, maybe, though I'd bet that 90% of the people in this group have already read that one.

[allison]

something not science fiction or fantasy?

[Aaron]

100 years of solitude

[chase]

memories of my melancholy whores would be a good short one, though plenty have probably already read it (that's going to be the case no matter what).

my vote goes to "Lenz"

http://www.amazon.com/Lenz-George-Buc...

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tater...

[allison]

i've already read 100 years of solitude

[Ben]

I'd be down for 100 Years.

[Ben]

Or we could read a more obscure DeLillo, like Libra.

[chase]

i'm good with either of those. hell we could do one of the really short delillo books. or 100 yrs is on the shelf and i've never read it.

seriously ben read that article and check out lenz.

[Aaron]

I've read white noise, it's great

libra would be good

so would money

[Ben]

I've been meaning to read some Amis for some time now, so I'd be down with that too.

[RichardNixon]

we should definitely start off with something short-ish, just cause some of us have short attention spans. not me though.

ok, me.

[Jon]

Mao II was a let down compared to other Delillos

Malamud or Amis would be great

[Ben]

I also haven't read any Roth, so I'd be down with that.

I already own Portnoy's Complaint and The Plot Against America.

[Ben]

Another good one might be New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster.

[jacob]

id be down with some delillo or amis. id been meaning to check out some other amis anyways since reading his latest house of meetings

[Ben]

The Assistant was the next to last book I read, so I'd personally prefer one of the others.

[Rebecca]

i've read Money, but i never mind rereading it. the Rachel Papers too, but that is quite short. I'd be down with 100 years.

[Ben]

I'd like to read 100 Years of Solitude. I've heard really good things.

[Ben]

what exactly makes you think you wouldn't like marquez?

[Ben]

I like the latter idea, so long as no one's a cock about it.

[chase]

same here. let's set it up and go ahead and do it. obviously ben is first right? ben should go ahead and list 5 and we'll vote and get this going.

[Brian]

Order by registration date?

[Ben]

Yeah, let Dark go first. He led me and the rest of us here.

[Brian]

Oh. I meant after dwb... I don't really care if I'm first or second or third. But if no one objects, I can nominate my five.

Unless this falls completely flat, I'll put up the following five for a vote in a new thread.

Alvaro Mutis: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
William Gerhardie: Futility
Richard Flanagan: Gould's Book of Fish
Eduardo Galeano: Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Leo Perutz: Master of the Day of Judgment

Obviously, these are all in my 'currently reading' or 'To-read' shelves.

After people vote (in the new thread, not this one), I'll add the book to the Hipinion group bookshelf.