London Bookgroup welcomes old and new members

[Pieface]

It gets posted here after the next bookgroup -idea is we decide on the night after duels and face clawing and lengithly insulting each other's mothers. Hollis will suggest a war book about planes and we will suppress him. The one about the Tube nearly got in but mine won that month

 

[onemonkey]

cool they have this months book in our library.. (five copies!!) along with a scholarly article (Woman on the edge of a genre: the feminist dystopias of Marge Piercy by Booker , M.K.) that i can steal my opinions from

 

[onemonkey]

Just got the book and read the back cover.. any book with a nod from Pynchon is sure to be good (previously that's how i discovered Jim Dodge and Steve Erikson)

mind you, the blurb makes it sound mental:

Connie Ramos is 37, Mexican-American, a loving mother now labelled child abuser, a heroically sane woman, now declared insane.

Drugged, a helpless inmate of a mental hospital, she is offered only one way back to "normality" - participation in a mind-control experiment using electronic implantations in the brain.

But Connie is also a 'catcher', a natural telepath with the ability to enter a Utopian future of ecological and social harmony. As the doctors close in Connie realises she has a fight on her hands - a fight in which a future world and her ow life are at stake.

+

 

[foamy]

ordered my book today just hope i'll get to read it before the meet (have to finish Atonement first and am only on chapter 5!)

glad to see there'll be a camden contingent there

 

[Crispy]

This one will be good discussion I think
And Hollis will probably have hated it

 

[Crispy]

*counts attendees*
*counts chairs*

It's gonna be a busy one!
I'll send PMs out in a bit.

Done! - mod PM allowance is very handy
If you didn't get one, let me know.

 

[Biddlybee]

Floor space is good

 

[Orang Utan]

Not had one yet. Anyone finished the book yet?

 

[Biddlybee]

Me either (PM or book).

 

[foamy]

no pm or book yet for me either

 

[Crispy]

balls. must have done something wrong. I'll try again....

 

[sleaterkinney]

I think I might join up this year as well, but i have a couple of books to finish off first.

 

[Orang Utan]

I haven't even started the book so if anyone's finished it....

 

[Biddlybee]

I think eme said she'd finished it, I'm only on the 2nd chapter

 

[Luciona]

Phew, just got my copy with a big help from Onemonkey!
(THANKS!!)
Hopefully twill get me through my first weekend of hibernating and resting weary limbs after NY parties. Starting book.... NOW!

 

[eme]

I think eme said she'd finished it, I'm only on the 2nd chapter

Put it back in the library (brixton)

 

[Brainaddict]

I should be coming to this. I read the book a while ago and liked it. I seem to remember it had flaws but luckily for all of you I can't remember what they were

 

[Pieface]

I haven't started reading it yet - am currently engrossed in a fantaseh trilogeh at the moment to Dub's despair.

Will sort it out

 

[zora]

After finishing the Sophie Kinsella canon last week I finally got my new brain delivered and have read roughly 100 pages of WOTEOT. After a slow start I am now getting really into it.

 

[Biddlybee]

I need to get a move on with this.. still only on the 2nd chapter

 

[Ms T]

I'm going to try and get this out of the library and read it by next week. Can you PM me your address please, Crispy.

 

[trashpony]

After finishing the Sophie Kinsella canon last week I finally got my new brain delivered and have read roughly 100 pages of WATEOT. After a slow start I am now getting really into it.

 

[Pieface]

It's a quick read by the looks of it but her bad treatment was pissing me off on the train this morning. I just wanted her to get a magnum and shoot all the men in sight.

I guess the book would be shorter if she did so....

I haf put fantaseh trilogeh on hold

 

[han]

Finally got this book from Barbican library! There's one more copy there, if anyone needs it, and has membership of City of London libraries!

Wot's the fantesh trilogeh called?

 

[Pieface]

ah am too embarrassed to say

Suffice to say they went to seek the "Elderlings" before I put it on ice to read the BG novel, which, incidentally, took a remarkable turn yesterday and went all bonkers and I'm enjoying it more now.

 

[Orang Utan]

Shit, I was supposed to get this off Crispy on Monday. Crispy - can I pick it up tomorrow? I'm bowling tonight

 

[Orang Utan]

What's the fantasy trilogy PieEye? You should not be embarrassed

 

[Crispy]

I reckon it's the "Farseer" Trilogy by Robin Hobb (who's actually a girl), which has covers like

, but you probably made the right choice in stopping, because

While her rich and detailed descriptions are a delight, her handling of the long-term plot line borders on incompetence.

Orang - yes, pop by tomorrow (that's thursday 11th) and pick it up. after dinner or something.

 

[innit]

I might come - but I've already got a stack of new books to read (am currently bunking off my biography of Chairman Mao). If it's a quick read I should be ok though!

I tried to join another bookgroup but I failed I thought I would enjoy not having to vote down another of Hollis' military offerings but in the end I actually missed it.

 

[Pieface]

I reckon it's the "Farseer" Trilogy by Robin Hobb (who's actually a girl), which has covers like

, but you probably made the right choice in stopping, because

you bastard.

you've been hiding in my room !!!