What happened?

[Paige Turner]

Maybe we could start a "Complete Failure" thread instead, and save us the trouble of reading books.

[Memnoch]

Originally Posted by Paige Turner

Maybe we could start a "Complete Failure" thread instead, and save us the trouble of reading books.

What you mean, where a moderator, could move threads that people have started yet got no or to a max 2 replies? Put these in a failiure thread, to discuss? . . . (well mock there inability to interest anyone??) lol



Damb , all my started threads will be there too!!! Scratch that Paige lol

[Teresa Edgerton]

Originally Posted by Paige Turner

Maybe we could start a "Complete Failure" thread instead, and save us the trouble of reading books.

In the case of most of the Book Club books we'd only be saving people the trouble of not reading the books. And, personally, I'm all in favor of people deciding for themselves which books they want to ignore. It seems so regimented to choose those books for them.

[Memnoch]

Originally Posted by Teresa Edgerton

In the case of most of the Book Club books we'd only be saving people the trouble of not reading the books. And, personally, I'm all in favor of people deciding for themselves which books they want to ignore. It seems so regimented to choose those books for them.

I agree to an extent, but if a blurb grabs your attention, yet the book is poor, would you not have wished you had been warned it was dross by like minded folk?

You don't get your money back for an enthusiastic blurb and intriuging cover.

Yet I'd happily pass over a book based on a review of someone I respect and know has similar tastes? So you still have the choice but with more balanced information?

[Teresa Edgerton]

Memnoch, I was talking about people passing over a book merely by it's being chosen for the Book Club, not on the basis of anything that was actually said. Practically speaking, selecting a book to read often seemed to have the opposite result. "This month we will not be reading or discussing The Once and Future King by T. H. White. If you own the book please give it away. If you have borrowed the book please give it back. If you were thinking about reading it, please wait six months."

As you say, you can choose to pass over a book on the basis of reviews, so why should we go to all the trouble of voting?

[jackokent]

Is there anything to stop us trying a book club again anyway, I mean we could just try it. People that thought it wasn't going to work (and I am not saying you're wrong) could just not join in. People who who want to have a go could indicate on this thread and we could see how it goes. After all, the worst that can happen I suppose is it doesn't work again. Just a thought.

I'd be up for it.

[ladyflorange]

I wanna do it!
I'm in another book club and there's only like 4 of us who ever get round to reading the books but it's still really fun. Who said you need loads of ppl to enjoy it?
and my local library has a great collection of fantasy so I dont have a problem really
come on, let's do it!

[chrispenycate]

I did what I could when this was still running, but I (like the sentient tree) lack a book shop with a supply of recent, interesting books, and really, only recent books are a reasonable choice. By the time a book was chosen, I'd gone down and ordered it from the bookshop, they'd ordered it fron their international stockists, and it had finally arrived for me to start reading, everyone else had finished it, voted, and forgotten about it (exception for the downloaded one, but that proved tome I'm not cut out to read E-books)
Concentrating on older books, or the ones that get put in aeroport waiting rooms, is a bit of a perversion of the base idea of discovering something new, that you wouldn't otherwise have read.

[BookStop]

If we kept a running sign-up for the BC going, we could eliminate the whole vote for which book we read by assigning numbers(perhaps order of sign-up) to folks, who then choose the selection that month. For instance..

1. Memnoch - December
2. jackokent - January
3. ladyflorange - February
4. BookStop - March

and so on, just copy and paste, then add yourself next in line you're interested - if you want to drop out, just let the next person in line know, and books need to be chosen one month in advance so folks have time to get them.

Just an idea, what do you think?

[ladyflorange]

Originally Posted by BookStop

If we kept a running sign-up for the BC going, we could eliminate the whole vote for which book we read by assigning numbers(perhaps order of sign-up) to folks, who then choose the selection that month. For instance..

1. Memnoch - December
2. jackokent - January
3. ladyflorange - February
4. BookStop - March

and so on, just copy and paste, then add yourself next in line you're interested - if you want to drop out, just let the next person in line know, and books need to be chosen one month in advance so folks have time to get them.

Just an idea, what do you think?

Sounds like a great idea to me. That's what we do in my other reading group and it works fine. I think we should definatley do it!

[stellarexplorer]

Well, as a newbie, I must say I find this thread depressing. Surely this failure of the book club notion is not indicative of anything else about the site? After all, a cursory investigation seems to support an active and commited group of posters. But I may be wrong.

[j. d. worthington]

Hello and welcome to the Chronicles, Stellarexplorer. No... and the people on here read a tremendous amount... it's just that most of us have a huge "to be read" list already, and finding the time for a book for the book club tends to get put on the back burner because of other commitments and discussions we're involved in. Often there are several people throughout reading the same book to post notes and reviews on it, but it's not formalized like a book club. It's a very active site; but it also tends to be rather eclectic (not to mention eccentric) in many ways.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Amidst all this discussion most people seem to have failed to notice this thread:

http://www.chronicles-network.com/fo...minations.html

There hasn't been much response, and it's been ten days. If you want to see it happen, it would probably be a good idea to go there now and nominate some books.

[carrie221]

Originally Posted by BookStop

If we kept a running sign-up for the BC going, we could eliminate the whole vote for which book we read by assigning numbers(perhaps order of sign-up) to folks, who then choose the selection that month. For instance..

1. Memnoch - December
2. jackokent - January
3. ladyflorange - February
4. BookStop - March

and so on, just copy and paste, then add yourself next in line you're interested - if you want to drop out, just let the next person in line know, and books need to be chosen one month in advance so folks have time to get them.

Just an idea, what do you think?

I think that this is a pretty good idea but maybe who ever month it is could list a poll with a few different books that you would want to read/discuss and let people pick... this way whoever's month it is still gets a say in what everyone will read but everyone also has a choice

Are we going to have a book for November? If so we kinda need to decide soon...