A book club - anyone interested?

[fozzie 41]

war and peace a great book..but hard to read..5 pages on a meadow is too much

Thats why I was bored by it. The story got lost amid some phenomenally descriptive writing. Critically I appreciate its finer points but I just found the story was secondary to describing battles and...like you said, meadows.

[maya62 7]

OK, I think it's fair to say we will not be reading War & Peace as our first selection Pardon me if I'm out of line with that prediction.

I've made a dent in Life of Pi and so far it's pretty interesting, although I would qualify as one of those "muddled agnostics" he's talking about, and also one of those people who thinks that animals would rather NOT be in a zoo, unless perhaps it's the only home they've ever known.

That said, I'm going to stick with it and see where it goes. The cover has a picture of a person and a tiger lying on a surfboard (or is it a boat) with sharks swimming all around them, and I'd like to see how that turns out...

Anyone else have any other nominations?

Maya

PS this thread was languishing on page 4 today

Edited April 1, 2009 by maya62

[DeadPoolX 9]

Books I've read and really liked:

• Shogun
• Exodus
• Starship Troopers (it's nothing like the movie!)
• Ender's Game
• Band of Brothers
• The Happy Hooker
• Dragonlance (the original three books)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six
• Frank Herbert's Dune
• Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
• Almost anything written by Harry Turtledove

There's more than that, but I can't remember them at this time.

[Marina-Del 10]

OK, I think it's fair to say we will not be reading War & Peace as our first selection Pardon me if I'm out of line with that prediction.

I've made a dent in Life of Pi and so far it's pretty interesting, although I would qualify as one of those "muddled agnostics" he's talking about, and also one of those people who thinks that animals would rather NOT be in a zoo, unless perhaps it's the only home they've ever known.

That said, I'm going to stick with it and see where it goes. The cover has a picture of a person and a tiger lying on a surfboard (or is it a boat) with sharks swimming all around them, and I'd like to see how that turns out...

Anyone else have any other nominations?

Maya

PS this thread was languishing on page 4 today

Life of Pi gets infinitely better once the whole boat thing happens I agree that I was a bit over the whole beginning story part, but once he gets on the lifeboat, I didn't want to put it down. Hang in there!!

So....are we going to vote, or what?

[fozzie 41]

OK, I think it's fair to say we will not be reading War & Peace as our first selection Pardon me if I'm out of line with that prediction.

I've made a dent in Life of Pi and so far it's pretty interesting, although I would qualify as one of those "muddled agnostics" he's talking about, and also one of those people who thinks that animals would rather NOT be in a zoo, unless perhaps it's the only home they've ever known.

That said, I'm going to stick with it and see where it goes. The cover has a picture of a person and a tiger lying on a surfboard (or is it a boat) with sharks swimming all around them, and I'd like to see how that turns out...

Anyone else have any other nominations?

Maya

PS this thread was languishing on page 4 today

Life of Pi gets infinitely better once the whole boat thing happens I agree that I was a bit over the whole beginning story part, but once he gets on the lifeboat, I didn't want to put it down. Hang in there!!

So....are we going to vote, or what?

Stick with it for 93 pages, it gets brilliant and ends even better.

[missmissy 38]

Okay, the nominees are below with a link to the Amazon.com page for each book, if you are unfamilar with any of the choices.

Voting this week, what do you think about 5 days? I will keep everyone posted as the votes come in. Vote early, vote often!!

Lets have our choice by Sunday so we can get started next week. Let me know your ideas about this - it's for all of us!!

The Time Traveler's Wife

http://www.amazon.com/Time-Travelers-Wife-...r/dp/015602943X

Life of Pi

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=se...ords=life+of+pi

Angels and Demons

http://www.amazon.com/Angels-Demons-Brown-...6284&sr=1-2

The Winter King

http://www.amazon.com/Winter-King-Arthur-B...6320&sr=1-1

The Red Tent

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Tent-Novel-Anita...6361&sr=1-1

Water for Elephants

http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephants-Nove...6427&sr=1-1

The Kite Runner

http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Illustra...6467&sr=1-1

A Thousand Splendid Suns

http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Illustra...6467&sr=1-1

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

http://www.amazon.com/Kite-Runner-Illustra...6467&sr=1-1

OK, I think it's fair to say we will not be reading War & Peace as our first selection Pardon me if I'm out of line with that prediction.

I've made a dent in Life of Pi and so far it's pretty interesting, although I would qualify as one of those "muddled agnostics" he's talking about, and also one of those people who thinks that animals would rather NOT be in a zoo, unless perhaps it's the only home they've ever known.

That said, I'm going to stick with it and see where it goes. The cover has a picture of a person and a tiger lying on a surfboard (or is it a boat) with sharks swimming all around them, and I'd like to see how that turns out...

Anyone else have any other nominations?

Maya

PS this thread was languishing on page 4 today

You are not out of line, I don't want to read War and Peace!! I got busy today with work, houses are selling again (hooray!!) - sorry for the delay in getting back here.

[Marina-Del 10]

Are we supposed to PM our votes to you or just post them here?

[missmissy 38]

I vote for The Winter King

[DeadPoolX 9]

Are we supposed to PM our votes to you or just post them here?

I think we should put this vote to a vote.

[Ladylethal 12]

Life of Pi definitely gets better as it goes, I too couldn't put it down after the first 100 pages.

I don't think I wanna read War and Peace either.

Do we say our choice here or are you opening a poll?

[missmissy 38]

Are we supposed to PM our votes to you or just post them here?

Either or both. I just printed out a tally sheet, with all of the titles so Ican keep track of the voting as we go.

[Ladylethal 12]

I also vote for The Winter King.

[missmissy 38]

Are we supposed to PM our votes to you or just post them here?

I think we should put this vote to a vote.

LOL

Life of Pi definitely gets better as it goes, I too couldn't put it down after the first 100 pages.

I don't think I wanna read War and Peace either.

Do we say our choice here or are you opening a poll?

I didn't think about a poll.....if I can figure out how to do it, I'll open a poll for us. Does everyone agree? GREAT IDEA!

[Marmaduke 0]

I vote for:

Water for Elephants

[missmissy 38]

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...188834&st=0

The link to the poll