MCOPM's totally audacious book club thread

1984 sounds cool... plus if I just choose that book, then I have to make no real decision regarding the book we read. I'll buy it this weekend. I've got a 4 day weekend, so I won't be back 'till Wednesday. Maybe we'll start next week, then.

Anybody who wants to join, join. If not.... what the hell're you lookin' at? Haven't you ever seen grown men starting a book club before?

I bought 1984, so I'm good to roll if anyone else wants to. I've got other stuff to read, but I can read them simultaneously.

Though one problem is that 1984 isn't really slipped into traditional chapters.... it'll be hard to say where exactly we should read up to.

I'm ready to roll whenever. Anyone else signing up besides me and Gabo?

We doin it in this thread, or a new one?

I made this forum so we can put each book in a new thread. That of course suggests we are able to read more than one book in a 5 year period, of course. It's a stretch, but I reckon we can make it.

Okay, so we're doin' 1984 this time around. If no one else bothers joining, we'll do, like, Christine or something.

So this forum went well... hmmm...

Well, screw books anyway. TV's so much easier and more entertaining. People who say otherwise are elitists.

It felt too much like homework, and it became overwhelming. I wanted to cry at the end.

And that's why you get an F, Whidden!

I deserve it, as I am a lazy student.

I'm down for trying a new book. Seriously.

Maybe if we all started a different book at the same time, even paced, posted shit like weekly about it.

Dunno.

-HECK!

Too little too late buddy! Don't come back in here, talkin' about joining us after you left us in the lurch the first time around. Don't even dare! You can't just play with our emotions like that; let us down, get our hopes up, just to let us down again. We're human beings! We deserve better.

So what book were you thinking?

I'm in!!!! I have heaps of Stephen King, I have Animal Farm, I can borrow 1984, just let me know what's next and I'm there.

PS: What's MCOPM?

I think it's

Mischief Committee of Project Mayhem, which was our name kinda. Also our name is Inrejects. We switch back and forth.

There is an amazing book I read this semester by Loung Ung called First They Killed My Father: A Daughter Of Cambodia Remembers. It's her recollection of the genocide in the late 1970's in Cambodia when the Kohmer Rouge took over. She was about five at the time. I love it because she wrote it in a child like voice and in the present tense so she gets the message across much more effectively. When I first heard we had to read it I thought Great... another stupid book I have to read and write a paper over.... But I LOVED this book and was able to write an amazing paper. In fact Loung Ung came to speak at our school and I learned that she has written a second book and is working on a third. And since mom and dad are at a loss of what to get me for Christmas I told them all I wanted was her second book.

There was a movie about those events when I was a kid, think it was called the Killing Fields.

Was a true story about a reporter and a cambodian dude. Yeah, I looked it up, it is Killing Fields. That Pol Pot was a fregin monster.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields

They showed that movie at our school but I had a class at the showing time so I didn't get to see it. In the book Loung Ung talks about her hatred of Pol Pot and how she wants to kill him herself. She was about 8 when she said this. That much hatred in an 8 yr old. She was 5 in 1975 so she's 37 now and you'd think all that trauma as a child would have made her a tattered and bitter woman. The truth is she is vibrant. It's amazing... she was able to joke around during her lecture and atthe same time make us cry. i just can't believe that someone who had gone through so much was able to grow into the woman she became.

http://www.loungung.com/acorn.php?page=biography

This is her biography from her official website in case any one is interested. Can ya tell I'm very passionate about these issues? lol

Heck, can't you read 2 books at the same time?

I LOVE to read and I'd be down with joining if that's ok with everyone!
I've never read any Stephen King books...I saw IT the movie...LOVE Tim Curry! I'm sure I could get whatever book you all decided on. When we startin'?!
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Whidden wrote:

Future classic's list, that might be aight:


As for King books, any King book will do for me, except Geralds Game, Pet Sematary, Carrie, or The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

What's wrong with Geralds Game Dave?



And I'm in too if anyone wants tostart this back up.

I never read it, just seemed too sexual, and I didn't want to read about death and cruelty and sex all mixed up.

Probably a good book, I just can't get past the cover and the description of it.

I thought it was a good book, but you might not like it. I wouldn't say it was really sexual. The first couple of chapters had some stuff in it but it just talk they don't actually do it.

There's no ACTUAL sex, it's more about psychology than anything.

yeah exactly

psychology can sometimes be even more creepy than sex

So...somebody pick a book so we can get reading!!! Anything...we're all game!