GMD Book Club

[AchrisK]

I was thinking less about fiction, and more about philosophy or science or something. But anything within reason, really.

 

[Heat Mizer]

Science I can dig.

I'm not a philosophical kind of dude.

My philosophy on philosophy is very bleak.

 

[George]

I was thinking the discussion could be ongoing through the book, as people are reading it. It might encourage people to keep up. But then it may also discourage people if they want to talk about a part that some people already discussed, but they have not read it. What do people think?

The ongoing discussion can actually work as long as spoiler warnings are mentioned before, and maybe even go as far as creating black background on the text so someone won't see it while scrolling.

And now that I'm trying to show an example of the black background trick, I can't seem to figure it out . Has anyone else seen this done before? Do you know how do it?

 

[CAIRATH]

I was thinking less about fiction, and more about philosophy or science or something. But anything within reason, really.

If it's stuff like that I might be interested. I think I'd just want to decide on a book-by-book basis though, I don't think I'd be dedicated enough sit through a book that doesn't really interest me. And I don't generally read fiction so I'm definitely not very interested in reading novels or anything like that.

 

[mutantllama]

Well maybe switch each book. One would be non-fiction, then next time it will be a fiction.

 

[Heat Mizer]

Yeah, that sounds good. Make it interesting.

 

[AchrisK]

I am not sure I see a lot of value in discussing fiction. Maybe I am too dumb. I would be willing try it, though. I suppose it would be like discussing movies or music to a degree.

 

[mutantllama]

I'm actually thinking about doing this. It might be a good way for me to read.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I think fiction would be best. I'd rather deal with something lighter, tbh. I just went through four years of reading academic literature, so I probably would not want to read science or philosophy.

 

[Dak]

There are a lot of deep fiction books out there.

 

[AchrisK]

Well, I'd up for a deeper sort of fiction book.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

I am not sure I see a lot of value in discussing fiction.

Uh, what?

There's value in discussing any form of art.

 

[AchrisK]

^At least read the rest of my post...

I admitted I might be dumb and/or wrong.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Well I wouldn't go so far as to say you're dumb or wrong, I'm just disagreeing.

 

[AchrisK]

Me too. I disagree with myself. I think I have just been more interested in other things lately. But I do think a good, somewhat deep fiction book would be good to read and discuss.

 

[cookiecutter]

For fiction just choose an accepted classic.

 

[Zephyrus]

Call me when the club is reading some Shakespeare. One of the tragedies or histories plz.

Julius Caesar!

 

[Heat Mizer]

Anything but Moby Dick. I just finished reading it over the summer. Excellent book but I wouldn't want to read it again.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Julius Caesar!

That one will always be one of my favorites, not only because it's awesome, but because it was sort of my "breakthrough" Shakespeare play. It was the first one that I could read effortlessly, as if it were in modern english. Before that, I always had to work at it a little bit.

 

[The Ozzman]

The only three Shakespeare plays I've read are Romeo and Juliet (awful), Macbeth (okay) and Hamlet (excellent)