Suggestions for May Theme for Group Read

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

This thread is to make suggestions for the May theme for the group read.

We don't need book nominations just yet, just the type of book you'd like to read, aka theme.


The poll will go up on March 20th.

The suggestions so far:

*Swashbuckling
*Nautical/Seafaring/Naval Historical Adventure
*Creature Feature (not vampires/werewolves)
*Freelance tough guy/avenging angel
*Western
*Sci-Fi Crime adventure
*War/Military
*Sword and Planet
*Paranormal (not fantasy/sci-fi)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

How about....are you ready? Swashbuckling action?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Good one, Mike.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I've got one of my favorites preped if the topic gets selected... :)

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

How about Wooden Ships and Iron Men (I've got a couple for those) or/and a Creature Feature. A monster book (Vampire and Werewolves not allowed?)

[Mike (the Paladin)]

....come on dude pick one. How do we know which to vote again....errr, I mean vote on, yes vote on, that's it.

[Sean]

I don't really have any specific books in mind, but how about Westerns?

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

By Wooden Ships and Iron Men, are you meaning like Steampunk or Science Fantasy, Hugh?

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

wow, I just read a good steampunk. I was thinking something in the Horatio Hornblower, Ramage department.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Oh, okay.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I'm going to go with freelance tough guy/avenging angel as my theme. For example, Jack Reacher or Joe Pike.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I thought he meant like C. S. Forester, Patrick O'Brian or maybe Rafael Sabatini. The sailing ship, cannon and cutlass motif?????

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Oh sorry...he answered while I was typing. Oops.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I could be wrong, but that's still swashbuckling or nautical, right? I lumped those together for easier voting.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

Swashbuckling doesn't require a ship...the book I'm thinking of isn't shipboard. I'm not sure Forester or O'Brian are considered swashbuckling. I never thought so. Nautical swashbuckling would be more like a pirate story.

[Mohammed]

Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "Swashbuckling doesn't require a ship...the book I'm thinking of isn't shipboard. I'm not sure Forester or O'Brian are considered swashbuckling. I never thought so. Nautical swashbuckling would be ..."

Swashbuckling dont have to be pirate stories. Its mostly nautical adventure. There is alot of swasbuckling adventure going on in Hornblower books.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I wouldn't put The Three Musketeers in the same boat as Forester and Dudley Pope. They are more Napoleonic War era stories with the emphasis on Naval Battles. Not so much swashbuckling...not that they aren't capable of that.

[Mohammed]

I would want a classic adventure type hero. Not actually Hornblower but similar genre.

Nautical heroes are awesome imo :)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

That makes sense.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I've got a good one in mind. I'm not that sneaky so, you can probably guess what my nomination will be if Nautical heroes carries the initial vote catagory.

[Mohammed]

Must the book have all those suggestions?

A nautical book with a monster is pretty rare. Unless you want sea monster horror story by William Hope Hodgson.

Anyway this group sounds cool and im a big fan of adventure,historical adventures.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

No, we are listing different themes and we will vote on them. The theme that gets the highest vote will be the basis for our May book nomination process.

[Mohammed]

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" wrote: "No, we are listing different themes and we will vote on them. The theme that gets the highest vote will be the basis for our April book nomination process."

Ah good to know. It sounded confusing the way i thought it.

Nice to have many choices.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

The book I have in mind is swashbuckling, but not nautical at all. So we'd need 2 categories.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

I think Lady D is on top of it. The list at the head of the thread (post one or two) has Swashbuckling and Nautical Hero as well as Creature Feature (not werewolves or vampires).

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Oops. Sorry Lady D. Didn't mean to step you.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

No worries.

[Jonathan]

I'm thinking a science fiction crime adventure... (do they even make books like that?) or even simpler Larger-than-life heroes (I'm talking guys who run through hails of bullets unscathed. They're near superhuman but without powers generally)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Altered Carbon is what I'd consider Sci-Fi crime adventure.

[Jonathan]

I'm just liking my crime fiction and sci-fi at the moment so I thought why not...

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

I like any combination of two different genres. I especially like a noir vibe thrown in with another genre.

Also love weird westerns. :)

[Jonathan]

Noir...everything keeps reminding me of Memento today.

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Memento? Maybe we should have held the vote for what book, then the one for what Genre?

[Jonathan]

Hang on what am I doing here voting for this group theme. *checks writing* Oh it seems I wrote earlier that I wanted a science fiction crime adventure. Memory loss and all...

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

Beer and wine do that to me too.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

Lots of great ideas this time, but I don't think this one has been mentioned yet...how about War/Military.

[Mike (the Paladin)]

I like the sound of that Lisa... I plan to vote for my own suggestion but that would be second for me.

[Mohammed]

How about Sword and Planet adventure like John Carter? Science Fantasy adventure that is fantasy adventure in Space.

I dont mean exactly John Carter book but there are many similar awesome adventure wise ones.

[Alex]

Paranormal elements (not fantasy/sci-fi)

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

For paranormal elements, can you give an example, Sheri?

[Mohammed]

Many so many interesting elements i cant wait for the poll :)

[The Pirate Ghost, Long John Silvers Wanna-be]

how about something like, Declare, a spy story with angels...sort of.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

Poll is up until March 27th. I have enabled the write-in feature if you have a theme that you don't see listed amongst the choices.

http://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/63...

[Eileen]

Another month of great ideas, can't wait to see what wins.

[Lisa P, My weekend is all booked up!]

There were too many good ideas...hard to pick just one!

[Roger]

Good choice, Curmudgeon. There are plenty of good adventure stories with wood ships in them.


Curmudgeon wrote: "How about Wooden Ships and Iron Men (I've got a couple for those) or/and a Creature Feature. A monster book (Vampire and Werewolves not allowed?)"

[Roger]

I vote for nautical. Sounds like good ideas so far.

[Danielle The Book Huntress , Literary Adrenaline Junkie]

If you haven't voted in the May Theme poll, please do. We currently have a tie, so we could use a tiebreaking vote! The poll ends at midnight!

[Roger]

I would have voted for swashbuckling if I'd known it would be the tiebreaking vote. Once I'd voted, I didn't see a way to change my vote.

[Jonathan]

Click underneath the poll there should be a change my vote thing.