Chris Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 OK. We've got enough nominations now. The thread is still open but I've put a poll up with all the suggested books. Please vote for the book you want to read first and that will give us the order to read them in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Book: Marching Powder Author: Rusty YoungSynop: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail. Including a cat addicted to crack. All night parties with tourists, and cocaine labs within the prison, the same cocine he gets thrown in jail for !?!http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marching-Powder-Rusty-Young/dp/0330419587/sr=1-1/qid=1163360180/ref=sr_1_1/026-8088130-3124456?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Life of PiWhat can I say about this book? its just bloody brilliant.Read it, even if it isn't picked as a review book.peteinthehillsSome books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if thats the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in gorgeously-hued India, the Muslim-Christian-animistic Pi sets off for a fresh start in Canada. His blissful voyage is rudely interrupted when his boat is scuppered halfway across the Pacific, and he is forced to rough it in a lifeboat with a hyena, a monkey, a whingeing zebra and a tiger called Richard.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Pi-Yann-Martel/dp/184195392X/sr=8-1/qid=1163414986/ref=pd_ka_1/203-3622525-6665558?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Geniusby Dave Eggers SynopsisDave Egger's parents died from cancer within a month of each other when he was 21 and his brother, Christopher, was seven. They left the Chicago suburb where they had grown up and moved to San Francisco. This book tells the story of their life together. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heartbreaking-Work-Staggering-Genius/dp/0330484559/sr=8-1/qid=1163418572/ref=pd_ka_1/026-8949395-3722027?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 American Tabloid - James Ellroyhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Tabloid-James-Ellroy/dp/0099893207/sr=8-1/qid=1163538056/ref=pd_ka_1/203-8654436-5263943?ie=UTF8&s=booksSet in the period from 1958 up to the moment in 1963 when the shots rang out in Dealey Plaza and ended JFK's thousand day presidancy. The novel follows the lives of 3 men caught up in the events surrounding the cuban resitence, a presidential rise to power, the bay of pigs and the twisted mass of plots leading up to November 22nd 1963. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I, Lucifer by Glen Duncanhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Lucifer-Glen-Duncan/dp/0743220137/sr=8-2/qid=1163540303/ref=pd_ka_2/026-1020818-5423609?ie=UTF8&s=booksGlen Duncans I, Lucifer begins one steamy summer as some heavy negotiations are taking place in Heaven. God has decided to give Lucifer, the furthest-fallen of all fallen angels, a second chance. The Prince of Darkness can return to the fold, provided he manages to last one month on earth without sin. The human form chosen for this celestial experiment? A depressed novelist of little renown, currently contemplating suicide in his Clerkenwell garret. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 dispatches - michael herrMichael Herr helped write the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket and this shows you where he got the ideas from. These are his memoirs from the years he spent in Vietnam as a correspondent for Esquire magazine. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dispatches-Michael-Herr/dp/0330255738/sr=1-2/qid=1163584043/ref=sr_1_2/202-3536275-7945435?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCrisis Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 The Cold Six ThousandThe Cold Six Thousand by James EllroySynopsisThis story is set in Dallas, in the November of '63. The heart of the American Dream detonated, Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches...The follow up to the crtically acclaimed American Tabloidhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Cold-Six-Thousand-James-Ellroy/dp/0099893304/sr=8-1/qid=1163596587/ref=pd_ka_1/203-4142786-4550348?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Notes from a Big Country by Bill BrysonBryson's classed as a Travel writer, but he really is so much more. This is a collection of articles (although un-distinguishable from chapters thanks to his writing style) he did on moving back to America after a period of living in Britain. Very funny, informative, but not simply observational stuff. I think it'd be a different choice, and maybe not ideal for the first book the club covers. Definately worth considering for a change of pace from fiction though.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Notes-Big-Country-Bill-Bryson/dp/0552997862/sr=1-10/qid=1163605422/ref=sr_1_10/026-8958219-2144433?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KatyS Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Title Stranger in a Strange LandAuthor Robert A. Heinlein This is a sci-fi novel about a man born on mars (therefore a martian) who is brought back to earth. It basically makes the reader question every aspect of society as the martian struggles to come to terms with everything - and the ending is cracking too. http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Strange-Land-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0441788386/sr=8-1/qid=1163606822/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5413190-6687900?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcn Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 An Equal Music - Vikram SethMichael plays second violin in an up-and-coming Maggiore Quartet, lives on the north side of Hyde Park, takes early morning dips in the Serpentine, has a French girlfriend named Virginie. But his mind is constantly drawn to his first and only love, Julia, whom he knew in Vienna many years earlier. When he catches sight of Julia on a London bus, he cannot help but pursue her. Vikram Seth's new novel is a gently-paced, multi-layered work, proceeding in short sections which flit from Michael's ongoing search for Julia back to his childhood as a Rochdale butcher's son, his early training and breakdown in Vienna under the tyrannical Carl Kall, and the emotional history of his quartet; while Michael's discovery of a Beethoven trio rewritten as a string quintet acts as a motif for Michael's pursuit of the lost Julia: can Michael recapture the magic of the past, like Beethoven, who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed? Seth is quite brilliant at conveying the intense and complex interplay of chamber musicians, in rehearsal and performance.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Equal-Music-Vikram-Seth/dp/0753807734/sr=8-1/qid=1163607225/ref=pd_ka_1/026-6696397-5390055?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKMartin Posted November 19, 2006 Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 We Need To Talk About KevinLionel ShriverKevin Khatchadourian kills several of his fellow high-school students shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. Convincing, bleak and powerful modern fiction.http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Need-Talk-About-Kevin/dp/0752874764/sr=8-3/qid=1163969400/ref=sr_1_3/203-9858537-8751917?ie=UTF8&s=books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 i was wondering what's happening with this thread because i've bought a few of the books and started reading a couple already. what's the plan? /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 i was wondering what's happening with this thread because i've bought a few of the books and started reading a couple already. what's the plan? /xVote for which book you want to read first. That'll give us the order.Once we kick off I guess we just start a thread for the first book and off we go. Maybe give ourselves say 2-3 weeks to read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Looks like I, Lucifer is winning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 excellent. i've voted but the anticipation became too much so i'll be ahead of the game! /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachie Posted November 25, 2006 Report Share Posted November 25, 2006 Planning to read it on the train down to Edinburgh tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 28, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 If you're taking part there's only one day left to vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_collector Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Glad to see I, Lucifer is still in the lead............it's proving to be an extremely entertaining read so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulscoconutass Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Glad to see I, Lucifer is still in the lead............it's proving to be an extremely entertaining read so far That screen-names not from the book by any chance? The Collector (John Fowles) is one of the few books that kept me reading right to the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 I went for :A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers Silly me.So whats the crack? - Will we all have to go out and buy the book that wins, which I'm totally on-board for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 I went for :A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers Silly me.So whats the crack? - Will we all have to go out and buy the book that wins, which I'm totally on-board for.The book that wins the vote is the first book to be read. The rest of the initial list will be in order of 2nd highest number of votes to lowest (with everything on 0 being decided on when it was nominated I suppose).If you want to take part in the book club all you have to do is read the book. Whether you buy it or borrow it from a library or whatever is up to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_collector Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 That screen-names not from the book by any chance? The Collector (John Fowles) is one of the few books that kept me reading right to the end.No, it is merely a small homage to NIN, however I read the synopsis for this book on the Fowles books website (http://www.fowlesbooks.com) and it does indeed look like a good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 Glad to see I, Lucifer is still in the lead............it's proving to be an extremely entertaining read so far agreed. so now are you setting a date by which we'll all have read this bad boy, our illustrious leader and twin-like man? /x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_inthehills Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 when does the nominations finish?when do we start the first book?peteinthehills Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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