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livius drusus
03-04-2005, 02:49 PM
This thread is for people to nominate books of the month for the Reading Group. The intention right now is to propose any and all books for consideration, and we will then narrow down a handful of them for the monthly selection poll. How exactly we'll go about narrowing things down, I'm sure I don't know. Suggestions are eagerly welcome.

From last month's poll we have:
Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
Heller - Catch 22
Austen - Northanger Abbey
Cormier - The Chocolate War
Lawrence - Lady Chatterly's Lover

A few suggestions from the original RG thread:

Ursula LeGuin - The Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, Left Hand of Darkness
Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

My new suggestion to inaugurate this thread is William Goldman's The Princess Bride, which is some fine post-modern fantasy fiction.

And the floor is now open, y'all. :study:
Beth
03-04-2005, 03:27 PM
Either Chatterly or Catch 22, if I may. :)
Crumb
03-04-2005, 05:58 PM
Really to make nominations work we should limit posters to a certain number of titles per month and then take books that get a certain number of nominations. For example, every one could nominate three books in each months nomination thread and any book that gets nominated twice is on the list to be voted on. We can adjust the numbers until we get a nice sized list.

Or at least that's how I would do it.

My picks:

Catch-22
The Princess Bride
livius drusus
03-04-2005, 06:56 PM
Sounds like a good plan to me, Crumb. That way we can get a fair number of nominations even when only a few people are participating, and we can easily narrow down the final poll just by picking all the ones that have been seconded. Easy peasy. :thumbup:
ceptimus
03-04-2005, 11:20 PM
Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
viscousmemories
03-05-2005, 03:03 AM
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
livius drusus
03-05-2005, 03:12 AM
Oh man. I so second Confederacy.
Bella
03-07-2005, 06:20 PM
Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
William Goldman - The Princess Bride

Can we recommend non-fiction too?
Crumb
03-07-2005, 07:41 PM
Can we recommend non-fiction too?

I don't see why not...
livius drusus
03-07-2005, 10:15 PM
Sure.
NietzscheCat
03-11-2005, 07:10 PM
I would like to recommend Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche. Also...anything by Philip K. Dick I second.
LadyShea
03-11-2005, 07:28 PM
I wouldn't mind reading The Princess Bride again, and the style and method is so unusual it should make for a fun discussion.
TomJoe
03-18-2005, 08:01 PM
Catch 22.
ChuckF
03-19-2005, 08:06 AM
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin

Or John Barth's Giles Goatboy if anyone has a spare year.
viscousmemories
03-19-2005, 02:55 PM
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
I actually picked that up at a used bookstore years ago, but haven't read it yet.

Or John Barth's Giles Goatboy if anyone has a spare year.
I haven't read that, but his The End of the Road is one of my favorites.
justaman
03-21-2005, 07:46 AM
These suggestions suck so far.

My picks:

The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

oo oo and

The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

I win by default. :winner:
xavierOnassis
04-01-2005, 06:01 AM
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho