| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Did you like Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie? |
| Yes |
|
28% |
[ 2 ] |
| No |
|
28% |
[ 2 ] |
| Never read it |
|
42% |
[ 3 ] |
|
| Total Votes : 7 |
|
| Author |
Message |
chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
|
 Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject: Book Club-Our first discussion meeting. |
 |
|
Our book club's first discussion meeting is going to take place tomorrow at What the Book?, at 6PM. We will be discussing "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie. Even if you have not read the book, stop by and join us. At this meeting we will be picking April's reading--you can help pick it!. In March, we will be reading "A Quiet American" by Graham Greene.
All the book club books are offered at a substantial discount to those who attend the previous meeting. There are a good number of people who are in the club (eight or nine so far). So don't worry about being stuck with two freaks and a book.
BYOB
http://www.whatthebook.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Aren't book clubs just an excuse for housewives to get to gether, drink wine, and gossip? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:39 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I am trying to learn how to be intelligent (Hooked on phonics didn't work for me). A teacher once tolds me thats if I reads I can becomes smarts.
http://www.whatthebook.com |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
just kidding ...
besides there is nothing wrong with drinking wine ... and gossiping. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| So am I. I have to stick to beer though. Hard to find a good dry white wine here in Korea. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
maxxx_power
Joined: 17 Mar 2003
Location: BWAHAHAHAHA! I'M FREE!!!!!!!
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:06 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I would like to Recommend American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis for next month.
It's one of my favorites and would love to join in an Ellis discussion. Rushdie seems a bit cerebral for a throwback like myself. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| So, is there alcohol at the bookclub? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| So, is there alcohol at the bookclub? |
Oh yes..... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: |
|
|
C I told YA, Oprah and the girls are getting wasted ...
Because there is no Bingo ...
Oh, the girls are out to bingo and the boys are getting stinko ...
They think no more of Inicko on a Sudbury Saturday night ... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Just curious.. how do people organize book clubs? Are there a list of questions and a moderator or something? Or people just sit down to coffee or beer or whatever and just start talking about it at random? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
panthermodern
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Taxronto
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
|
| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| maxxx_power wrote: |
I would like to Recommend American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis for next month.
It's one of my favorites and would love to join in an Ellis discussion. Rushdie seems a bit cerebral for a throwback like myself. |
I also think this would be a really interesting book to read, though not for the faint of heart.  The movie version they show in Korea seems really really really edited.  I always liked the analogy Ellis was using to desribe the 80s. I'll save the rest of my chatter if we use this book in March. (please...please...please)
I'll be in Seoul in March...and am a lazy-ass. Could you please PM me the details for this book club? I'd love to join.
Tiger Beer, the last book club I was in, we all met at a coffee shop and just discussed the book, our favorite passages, what the author was getting at, whether we liked the book or not. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Crois
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: You could be next so watch out.
|
| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:10 am Post subject: |
|
|
| What about the Beano? Now there is a great comic or is this the wrong sort of book club? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
|
| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I'm pretty sure books with pictures may be discouraged in this club. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Crois
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: You could be next so watch out.
|
| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
Damn it!!! 
Maybe i should start to talk to 8 year olds about forming that kind of book club? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
