SailorScoutMandy | 782 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Hello everyone! This is the first poll to determine our book to read together. Timeline is to ideally let voting happen now until 4/2 and then on 4/3 announce the chosen book. To keep the reading window nice and open to cater to everyone's reading speeds I'd like to have the completion goal to finish the book by 4/30. I plan on making like a weekly check in thread if you have questions about the reading or thoughts you'd like to share and then just repeat the process. As always feel free to give suggestions! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Blurbs of each voting choice: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried through space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). If you’re new to the Discworld don’t worry, you’re not alone . . . Twoflower is the Discworld’s first tourist, he’s exceptionally naive and about to get himself into an array of dangerous and fantastical situations on his travels. And if that didn’t sound fateful enough, it’s the spectacularly inept wizard, Rincewind who is charged with safely chaperoning Twoflower and his Luggage (a walking suitcase that has half a mind of its own and a homicidal attitude to anything threatening) during his visit. Safe to say chaos ensues… The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Colour of Magic is the first Discworld book. It is also the starting point in the Wizards collection, followed by The Light Fantastic Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere French Exit by Patick deWitt Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Prices' aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin – to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind ‘tragedy of manners,’ a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he sees something different, something out of place: the female soldier known as the Bitch of War. Is the Bitch the key to Keiji’s escape, or to his final death? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,521 Editorials Team · Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Might need some more advertising. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireHazard51 | 2,043 Social Team · Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) I'll throw a future book idea out..... A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony. The first book in the Xanth book series Edited March 31, 2021 by FireHazard51 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,521 Editorials Team · Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 40 minutes ago, FireHazard51 said: I'll throw a future book idea out..... A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony. The first book in the Xanth book series Another one sitting on my shelf waiting for it's day 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,521 Editorials Team · Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 ...and I just ordered Neverwhere since it was one of the few Gaiman's I don't have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorScoutMandy | 782 Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 1 hour ago, FireHazard51 said: I'll throw a future book idea out..... A Spell for Chameleon by Piers Anthony. The first book in the Xanth book series I'll make sure to add it to next one. There is a thread for suggestions just for tracking purposes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,983 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I’ve already started reading the colour of magic in anticipation that it would win haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,837 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 35 minutes ago, Shmup said: I’ve already started reading the colour of magic in anticipation that it would win haha. Ha. I actually just got it for the same reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorScoutMandy | 782 Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 That's Neverehere for me. If we don't get to it, I'm definitely going to be reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brickman | 3,983 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 56 minutes ago, SailorScoutMandy said: That's Neverehere for me. If we don't get to it, I'm definitely going to be reading. It is looking good as a second book to read I would have voted for my own suggestion but the discworld novels have been on my list for even longer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin03 | 314 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 I've used my club owner powers to override the lock and vote for The Colour of Magic to ensure a win. I guess it wasn't needed after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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