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QC Forum Book Group - Nominations for Book #2
Liz:
Seconding Blood Meridian.
BlahBlah:
The Bridge, Banks.
It's an excellent novel and I'd quite like to read it again and discuss it.
Lines:
Hey mods, how do you edit the poll???
The Bridge has 3 votes, it's officially on the list.
Blood Meridian has 2, need one more and it's on the list.
Everything else has all been suggestions.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Joseph on 10 May 2010, 02:03 ---Would people possibly be open to doing a book of essays?
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Yes, more so than reading fiction really.
That said, I would like to read At The Mountains of Madness so I'll second that nomination.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: Linds on 10 May 2010, 05:30 ---If we want to read a collection of short stories, I suggest Forty Stories by David Barthelme.
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Donald.
He's really excellent. I guess his two most commonly read books are Forty Stories and Sixty Stories, but both are actually anthologies of stories from earlier collections. I have Sadness, Come Back, Dr. Caligari, and Amateurs in my room right now, and have been reading bits and pieces from each. A load of his stories are readily available on The New Yorker's website. He also published a number of excellent novels, my favourite being Snow White, which is an idiosyncratic, humorous, and confounding little book, done in his characteristic 'collage style'; it imagines Snow White as a housekeeper type figure in a 60's style commune. It's worth reading the first page.
If we end up doing Blood Meridian, I'll at least start, as I've been meaning to give Cormac McCarthy another try, but my initial impressions have been similar to Jens'.
I've realized that the essay collections I was going to suggest are all by Canadian poets and are published by small Maritime presses, which means they would likely be impossible for more people on this forum to get, unless they order directly from the press. I'll try and think of some other non-fiction which might be workable.
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