x86 Book Club?

[Ender]

I would like to start a forum book club. In case you haven't noticed, forum activity is dwindling, and several prominent members are posting a mere once a week or once a month. I think this would be a good way to energize the forums. Also it will be really exciting for me personally to manage a book club =)

Here's how I propose it can run:

We will read a book a month. Members will propose book titles in a certain thread and the week before the new month we will have a vote on what to read. I think the books should be non-technical and should be comprehensible to everyone. Some possible genres we can cover are literary fiction, popular economics and politics, popular books on religion such as those Dawkins books which I despise >_>, popular science (like Stephen Hawking's book etc.), books on history, historical fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, etc. (So you see there is a diverse range of topics!)

So tell me, who is interested?

[Blaze]

I'd do this, so long as there is a guarantee everyone had access to said book.

[Armin]

I'd do it.

[Joe]

I'd tag along, I guess. Something to do while waiting for hurd to be released.

[Ender]

Awesome. I believe Rule is going to do this, and I can persuade Kaleeko to it as well. Furthermore I may get a few friends of mine IRL to come on here and participate.

So the people I project so far are:

Blaze
Armin
Rule
Kaleeko
Friend or two of mine
Maybe Joe

Not bad. Anyone else?

[iago]

Possibly in the future (after early 2010).. depends on a few things for me :)

[rabbit]

I'll participate as long as I can afford the books.

[Newby]

I guess I can participate as long as I can acquire said books online. =P

j/k. I'm down. It seems like a good idea.

[Ender]

:)

Absolutely the most important thing is that everyone in the book club is interested in the book =) Else it will fall flat on its face if no one reads the book :P

[AntiVirus]

I'd participate if you'd let me and if I could get my hands on the book.  I don't know how much time I will be able to dedicate to leisurely reading, but I will put forth effort to finish it.  School is rather demanding at the moment.

[Ender]

I'd participate if you'd let me and if I could get my hands on the book.  I don't know how much time I will be able to dedicate to leisurely reading, but I will put forth effort to finish it.  School is rather demanding at the moment.

No, we don't take people named Brandon ;)

Of course I would let you :P

[Towelie]

If I had ample amounts of free time I would.... but I don't! :(

[Armin]

lets get this rolling. everyone nominate some books they want to read, then we can make a poll to choose what we read, then make a deadline based on that of a library book checkout period.

Ive wanted to read Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell) for a while.

[iago]

I'm going to be spending *a lot* of time on planes the next couple weeks. I vote Burmese Days (also by Orwell) because I was planning on bringing it with me and reading it on the plane anyway. :D

That being said, Aspidistra is an awesome book. I highly recommend it (though I've read it already)

[Newby]

I read Aspidistra for English my senior year of high school. It's a great book.

I also have Burmese Days. Good books all around!

Perhaps a different author? :P