Hi again everyone,
It looks like there was no real interest in continuing to discuss The Fountainhead and that's ok. I wonder though, if it's because it's such a huge book and that the "discussion" was very loose and unstructured. So, to address that for future rounds, I think it might be helpful and make it more enjoyable for us all if we didn't wait until finishing the book to discuss it. Perhaps we could break future readings into sections and discuss only those sections as we pass through them and then the book as a whole when we finish. What do you think? I also have the feeling that this will help people stay on track. In the spirit of staying on track, I think that it would be helpful for everyone participating if whoever is in charge of leading #hubskibookclub, could send out friendly reminders. So for example, let's say that we had split The Fountainhead into its different sections, then the leader could send out a reminder at about the half-way mark of the agreed-upon reading period.
I am open to suggestions as far as how the running of #hubskibookclub should go, but I think if we agree on how we're going to structure the thing and how we'll participate in it, it will be a lot more manageable.
hiss has suggested some really interesting books in the previous thread and I would suggest that the books suggested by hiss and everyone else be considered for future #hubskibookclub reading.
Here is a list:
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Boss by Mike Royko
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Terra Nostra by Carlos Fuentes
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
any books by Cormac McCarthy
Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
If you have any additional suggestions, please feel free to let me know.
Next, the pool for rotating #hubskibookclub leadership is currently (including me):
If anyone else would like to join the Pool of Rotating Leadership (sounds like an item from an RPG, right?) please let me know. So, I'll lead this round of #hubskibookclub and we'll decide who goes next later.
It looks like people are most interested in reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño, with The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašekso as a close second, that's what we'll read for next time. A quick look at Wikipedia tells me that this is a long book. A really long book. In fact, longer than The Fountainhead. Again, I'm going to strongly recommend that we break this up into parts and discuss those parts as we work our way through.
Lastly, for future reference and shoutouts, here is the current shoutout list:
StJohn, DiamondLou86, AnSionnachRua, _refugee_, minimum_wage, flagamuffin, fuffle, b_b, hugitout, JakobVirgil, zebra2, AdSeriatim, mk, thenewgreen, SufficientGrace, ecib, kleinbl00, cliffelam, hootsbox, lil, rezzeJ, cgod, blackbootz, onehunna, AshShields, BLOB_CASTLE, insomniasexx, kuli, cowboyhaze, seatraveler, Floatbox, maynard, hiss, GodOfAtheism, NikolaiFyodorov, Meriadoc
Here it is without formatting, for easy cutting and pasting:
@StJohn@, @DiamondLou86@, @AnSionnachRua@, @_refugee_@, @minimum_wage@, @flagamuffin@, @fuffle@, @b_b@, @hugitout@, @JakobVirgil@, @zebra2@, @AdSeriatim@, @mk@, @thenewgreen@, @SufficientGrace@, @ecib@, @kleinbl00@, @cliffelam@, @hootsbox@, @lil@, @rezzeJ@, @cgod@, @blackbootz@, @onehunna@, @AshShields@, @BLOB_CASTLE@, @insomniasexx@, @kuli@, @cowboyhaze@, @seatraveler@, @Floatbox@, @maynard@, @hiss@, @GodOfAtheism@, @NikolaiFyodorov@, @Meriadoc@
Once again, we are reading 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Edit: Apparently the book is broken up into 5 parts, so we'll set a schedule for reading and discussing the parts as well as the whole book. I'll wait a few days for people to get copies in their hands before posting the reading plan.