February is the month!
by And the winner is...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Caroll
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451527747/qid=1102910593/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
Looks like we'll be having a Mad Hatter tea party!
Here's the list of books we voted on:
Dune by Frank Herbert
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0441172717/qid=1102947186/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/103-3804069-4614265
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573225517/qid=1102910084/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375709177/qid=1102910159/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/006092988X/qid=1102910240/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
Bradbury Short Stories by Ray Bradbury
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006054242X/qid=1102910307/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0702526-5190309?v=glance&s=books
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143035002/qid=1102910491/sr=2-2/ref=pd_ka_b_2_2/104-0702526-5190309
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679734775/qid=1102910540/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
Desiring Italy by Susan Cahill
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449910806/qid=1102910649/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
Lord of the Flies by William Gerald Golding
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399501487/qid=1102910682/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440322278/qid=1102910727/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_b_2_3/104-0702526-5190309
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060740450/qid=1102910797/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140003468X/qid=1102910839/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/104-0702526-5190309
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34 Comments
i'm catching up cos i never read alice and i think it's pretty interesting. i'm reading the annotated version, which makes a lot of sense out of things. i wish everything had an annotated version...
i wish there was an annoted version of me. useful facts about summer to help everyone put her quirkiness into context.
I just wanted to say, if you like the Alice books, read "Automated Alice" by Jeff Noon. It's basically an unauthorized sequel to the original books by Lewis Carrol. I think he even pretends that it was written by Lewis Carrol and he just edited it or something, or maybe I'm mixing it up with something else on that point.
But it is great, and I thought really felt like the other two, but its sort of like "what if Lewis Carrol wrote an alice book that dealt with the ideas behind computers"
One thing is it has a couple small references to Noon's Vurt series, if you haven't read that (I hadn't) they won't get in the way, I think they're just gems for Noon fans to get.
interesting. i'll put those on my to read list. thanks for the tip.
yessssssssss i've been waiting for automatic underlining, my dream
wow.. this entire thread looks like POOP! what did you all do??!??!?!
A thread of poop? Eh, sound more like your fortaye *OOOOoooo BURN!
Dune. DUNE DUNE DUNE. I'll even lead the discussions. I love that book, but don't listen to me cuz it's the only one i know...
i love a tree grows in brooklyn. it was someone else's summer reading one time so i read it too and it was awesome. defientely read that.
house on mango street is another tiny book full of references and different meanings. sad book i think i saw the author at a poetry festival. very tiny and cute.
alice and wonderland and through the looking glass are both really good. closely related to the movies but better. i like throught the looking glass cuz i could mostly create my own mind images.
desireing italy looks cute. especialy if your book club is full of italian women. i'd love to read it. of the ones i haven't read i'd go with this one.
are you going to come this time or what?!
well maybe if you finally would pick a book. and what day, cuz then i need to know. but on general terms i would love to come this time!!!
if you kept up with the evite you'd be able to participate in the decision like everyone else...ROAR
kept up with it? i opened it. does it count?
ROAR!
judges say EHHHHHHHH NO
Dune or High Fidelity.
never read HF, but i'm wondering if Dune is conducive to discussion
I voted High Fidelity.
ok so THAT'S out..now Alice in Wonderland. I kinda hope we do this cuz it's classic and would be really fun..
Tea Party theme!!
i just read alice in oct or nov. but id read it again (annotated) for the book club. im sure i missed many references.
OH i read the Red Death book too. It was good.. but if i remember correctly it was a little slow-moving..
we're thinking of having a poe month-where we read a few shorts and discuss.
Ok I loved Lord of the Flies (funny that in the amazon link it is suggested to buy with Catcher in the Rye, my FAVORITE book - they're sort of similar) anyways I got in trouble for reading it (this was in.. 9th grade i think?) because it was 'violent'. Um, it's a little violent I guess but it's a really good book and just in general highly metaphorical... I loved this book.
we've been having a HUGE fight with the bro that suggested that we read this cos some people in the club absolutely hate this book. he wanted to read something "with teeth." i don't blame him, but i don't think this is it...
I absolutely hate Lord of the Flies. I read it as a freshmen in High School and I don't remember anything enjoyable about it. I thought it was disgusting and over-stuffed with symbolism.
aw. I liked it.
i liked it also. i think the point the author was trying to make is very on the mark.
i like how english teachers always put symbolism into books but he always strictly stated what his symbols were. and he wouldn't let anyone interpret them in any other way.
speakig of which... the other day we had a guest speaker of art in english class. and our teacher had been arguing with us how in metamorphosis by franz kafka the apple represented somethign and we said no. in the presentation on dali, he said about how you never know what the artist meant unless they tell you. toatlly put her in her place. bam!
Metamorphosis..weird stuff right there.
But as for putting symbols into stuff..it drives me crazy. The authors were probably just writing a nice story about nothing and then bam the bird that they have flying overhead and pooping on the ground in chapter 10 foreshadows the marriage of Katie and Susie in book 15. Like..whaaat. In A Tale of Two Cities I remember that my teacher insisted that the gnats flying outside the court room door had some meaning. Maybe they were just gnats and that city had trouble with them?
i remember hating that book for all the symbolism my teacher put in it. that and i didn't read it thoroughly so maybe i was just too confused to care. i saw the wishbone version, so there was no need to actually read it.