TypoC book club?

[Laurie]

I finally got my book... And apparently I ordered two of them. That's just brilliant.

 

[Aquarelle]

I want to savagely end reading as a solitary activity and make it a shared experience.

I don't want to talk about a book, or anything else, I want to experience it now in company.

Victor, I think you are an E. I know you don't believe in MBTI, but by E generally I mean that you enjoy being around people all the time, or at least a lot of the time. I like reading aloud, but I also like reading alone.

In short, I want to read aloud to you and with you and in you.

Um... I like you, but I'm not comfortable with that....

I do hope you are not in the cyclone's path, and if you are that you are somewhere safe. I have 3 American students studying at JCU-Cairns this semester and they are currently in an evacuation shelter, taking cover with the other inhabitants of Cairns. Talk about a cultural experience....

 

[strawberries]

i haven't started this month's book yet. i have just finished the surgeon of crowthorne by simon winchester. it's a snappy historical work based on the true story of two men who worked on the original oxford english dictionary. one of them, dr william minor was a murderer locked up in an insane asylum. he wrote his contributions to the dictionary at the asylum. woven into the story are some interesting vignettes about the history of dictionaries/etymology. i also enjoyed reading the descriptions of treatment received by the criminally insane in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. i give it three strawberries.

 

[Synapse]

I knew it would be a challenge for me to read this, I might have to get the voice over. Its become so bad, to turn from a prolific reader and lover of literature to having to skip and sign work forms because I didn't want to read it only to have to resign them because I wasn't supposed to sign everything. Hahaha details.

 

[Aquarelle]

Hahahaha, that's awesome! (Although I did enjoy the Twilight books.... well, the first one, anyway. After that they rapidly deteriorated.)

i haven't started this month's book yet. i have just finished the surgeon of crowthorne by simon winchester. it's a snappy historical work based on the true story of two men who worked on the original oxford english dictionary. one of them, dr william minor was a murderer locked up in an insane asylum. he wrote his contributions to the dictionary at the asylum. woven into the story are some interesting vignettes about the history of dictionaries/etymology. i also enjoyed reading the descriptions of treatment received by the criminally insane in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. i give it three strawberries.

That sounds interesting! And I love your rating system!

 

[Randomnity]

Still waiting to get my copy.

The stupid library still lists (for over a week now) 12/20 copies supposedly on the shelves at various branches, despite them not sending any of them to me. Finally went to one of the listed branches and of course it wasn't actually on the shelf. So I don't know what's up with their inventory system (there are only 2 holds on it total). They are usually much faster.

 

[Patches]

Although I did enjoy the Twilight books....

THATS IT. YOURE OUT OF THE BOOK CLUB!!! GET OUT NOW.

(Even if you were the one who started it........)

 

[prplchknz]

i read the first 6 pages i liked it don't ask me why i stopped, i don't know. but i'm gonna go make coffee and read some more, screw the internet *please internet be nice and don't stop working when I come back, I still love you* of anathem I did read the first book of twilight it sucked, I want that 6 hours of my life back god damnit.

 

[Aquarelle]

THATS IT. YOURE OUT OF THE BOOK CLUB!!! GET OUT NOW.

(Even if you were the one who started it........)

But...but...
awww *hangs head and walks away*

 

[NPcomplete]

That's a nice story. I think you're about the same place I am.

Haha yeah I probably made someone's day. (Or not if they got paranoid..)

I haven't touched the book since then. I've been reading some light books instead because I need to rest my brain after school and I need something happy to get me through The Drabness that is winter.

 

[Randomnity]

Still waiting to get my copy.

The stupid library still lists (for over a week now) 12/20 copies supposedly on the shelves at various branches, despite them not sending any of them to me. Finally went to one of the listed branches and of course it wasn't actually on the shelf. So I don't know what's up with their inventory system (there are only 2 holds on it total). They are usually much faster.

I think they heard me complaining! It finally became available and I picked it up at the library on my way home from work. Got through a whopping 12 pages on the bus ride home - but I like it so far. It's not nearly as dry as it sounded (maybe I haven't gotten to those parts yet). I like the made-up words.

 

[iwakar]

Sounds like fun, can I crash the book party?

 

[Randomnity]

Through part 1 - slower reading than usual, and more tiring too! I find myself rereading a lot to put words in context. My brain hurts from trying to keep all the vocabulary words straight (and he even snuck in some obscure real words too - like "selvage"- but I think most of the new words are just made-up). I'm interested to see where he takes it from here.

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

What book are you guy snow reading???

 

[InvisibleJim]

It's getting really interesting; just past the Warden of Heaven hilarity.

 

[Aquarelle]

Sounds like fun, can I crash the book party?

Yes, of course!

What book are you guy snow reading???

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson

It's getting really interesting; just past the Warden of Heaven hilarity.

Cool! I'm hoping to get some more reading done on it this weekend.

 

[InvisibleJim]

Cool! I'm hoping to get some more reading done on it this weekend.

Imma finished. It was a good book. I'll say no more.

 

[Such Irony]

Sorry, but I have given up on this book. It took me 45 minutes just to get through the first 10 pages because of all of the unfamiliar terminlogy. Usually, I read pretty fast and can get through 100 pages or so in an hour. I kept having to go to the glossary and then looking up the term in the glossary, I'd encounter some other terms I didn't know, so I had to look those up as well. It's like you have to read the entire glossary first to even have hope of making sense of what's going on in the story. Seems awfully backwards to me.

I guess that sort of reading just isn't my style. I like faster paced stuff and I don't mind new terminology but define the terms right there in the story itself rather than making people refer to a glossary.

 

[prplchknz]

I don't have time. so i'm dropping out.

 

[gromit]

When do we have to finish the chapters by?