UD Book Club

[Jack Skellington]

OK I guess Daniel can pick which book to read since the voting is over and he hasn't voted for one yet.

[PeterPanfan]

Aw, I hate to be the deciding factor. I'll extend the voting date until Friday, and we'll hopefully get more votes.

[blackcauldron85]

Maybe this isn't meant to be- 3 votes and all different books.

[Jack Skellington]

Is it ok if I change my vote ?

I'm gonna go with to "Kill a Mokingbird", since I've always wanted to read that but didn't.

If Danny picked Frankenstein though, then flipping a coin is our last resort. lol (Which you can do online btw : http://shazam.econ.ubc.ca/flip/ )

[yamiiguy]

I'd thought I'd revive this since it seems like a good idea. I just finished Up in the Air by Walter Kirn and it was pretty good, moving on to Of Mice and Men now. I think it would be better to have something like a theme each week or month, for example Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Classic, Thriller, Horror, Non-Fiction etc. Everybody puts forward a nomination and then a vote is taken. I'm a member of mobileread and that's what happens there.

[blackcauldron85]

Maybe people could see what books their library has that they're interested in, write a list and post it here, and then if many people have the same books on their lists, then we could all read those books. I'd be all for this if the books were readily available. Also, I think maybe we should choose books that aren't too long; that way, we can finish reading them before they're due, because sometimes there is a waitlist so you can't renew.

[PeterPanfan]

I'd be all for doing this again, but the 'system' needs to be more polished and not as "spur of the moment" as it was last time we tried, which was... two years ago?

We can see how many people are interested and then work from there.

[yamiiguy]

If we're all for "readily available" books then what about public domain books that you can download for free from Project Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg Australia or feedbooks.com? There's hundreds of good ones and I'll start a preliminary list:

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Agatha Christie
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

[blackcauldron85]

I think that downloading the books, as long as it's free and easy and we're all able to do it, would be a great way to do this. From your list, the Jane Austen & Bronte Sisters books would be my first choices (and I already own them). But I'm interested in the Dickens books, too. I've read "Animal Farm" already, but gave away the book, since it was for school and it was all marked up. "Call of the Wild" might be good, too.

[yamiiguy]

I think that downloading the books, as long as it's free and easy and we're all able to do it, would be a great way to do this. From your list, the Jane Austen & Bronte Sisters books would be my first choices (and I already own them). But I'm interested in the Dickens books, too. I've read "Animal Farm" already, but gave away the book, since it was for school and it was all marked up. "Call of the Wild" might be good, too.

Yes it would be better I think

Where to download:
Feedbooks
Project Gutenberg Australia
Mobileread

Useful programs:
Kindle for PC - For opening and reading .mobi and Kindle files on a PC
Kindle for iPhone - For opening and reading .mobi and Kindle files on an iPhone
Adobe Digital Editions - For opening and reading .epub and .pdf files on a PC
Calibre - For managing and converting ebook files

[yamiiguy]

Just finished Of Mice and Men...so sad

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I just finished reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, which was a marvelous novel, and Shakespeare's Hamlet, which was rather decent, both for my AP English class. I just started Pride and Prejudice (only 64 pages into it) on my own and for class we're about to start Beloved by Toni Morrison on Friday. I don't know when I'll time to read both and finish assignments for both Cuckoo and Hamlet. All I know is that reading more literary-classic novels will help me on the AP test. I was planning on reading P&P over my spring break, but I really just wanted to read it. So, I pick Pride and Prejudice or Beloved if anything.

[blackcauldron85]

I'm currently reading Gone With the Wind, and I want to finish that before we start the UD Book Club back up...

[PeterPanfan]

Well, four people are interested.

I want at least five to make it interesting, haha, so recruit!

[zackiellovedisney]

Right now I am reading Catch 22. So far it is really good and funny. I recommend it for anyone just wants a couple of good laughs. I haven't finished it yet but I am getting close

[TheSequelOfDisney]

Right now I am reading Catch 22. So far it is really good and funny. I recommend it for anyone just wants a couple of good laughs. I haven't finished it yet but I am getting close

Really? I wasn't a big fan of that novel. There were some bits that were funny, but I found it to be long and rather confusing during some parts. I don't remember that much of it really, but I know that I wasn't too fond of it. I remember that Yossarian didn't want to fly planes, or something like that. And also a trailer, where Yossarian kept on going in and trying to find someone but he was never there (maybe? my memory's kind of bad, even though I read it within this past year). There were also prostitues. A bunch of prostitutes. And his friend fell in love, or something. I don't know. I didn't care for it that much.

[SmartAleck25]

I could join the book club! Just don't make me read the Hunger Games, since it's always checked out at my library.

[ajmrowland]

Smartaleck, that banner's made of WIN!

Anyway, I think I can join this.

[SmartAleck25]

Thanks, ajmrowland! I wanted the Pevensies in there somewhere, but the avatar was too small to fit them in, so I put them in my siggy. Yours is awesome too. How did you make the transitions between the pics so smooth? (We're really off-topic, aren't we?)

Anyways, when are we starting, Dan?

[ajmrowland]

I had Enigmawing do mine. Im not that skilled with photoshop yet.