Bookclub?

I have several but Antiheroes With Freedom of Choice Problems is the relevant one here.

 

Freedom of Choice Problems? Like? *is curious if what you mean by Freedom of Choice Problems has anything to do with the stuff involved in my interpretation of Norm the Genie (who is not an Antihero, unfortunately when it comes to Convincing You He is the Best)*

 

Has anyone read the Bartimaeus trilogy? That series gives me Feelings.

 

I'm canonblind so I honestly have no clue what character you're talking about, but like, character arcs where the character is in a dark role because they don't really have a choice in their actions, as opposed to "I COULD go be a good guy, but that's lame so I'm not."

 

Quite a lot of us, apparently.
Although I never finished the third book. :B

 

I am in if there is a book club
Murtagh was always my favorite in the Eragon books. I only read the first two, I think, though.
I read the very first book in the Bartimaeus trilogy, and then couldn't find the next two.

 

Yes.

He's from Fairly OddParents, and not particularly popular, so I can understand not recognizing him.

That sounds nice. Half-like what I'm talking about, half-not, I think. Close to the concept, certainly.

 

Ah, yes, Western Children's Cartoons. Not even my genre.

It is nice, if by nice you mean "full of fuel for angst and comfort fic."

#which in this case there isn't nearly enough of #but I keep coming back #because character pings #AND bondcreature dragons #fond sigh

 

Basically that, yeah. :D Words are hard sometimes.

 

I'm obviously following the wrong children's cartoons.

...Wait, scratch that. I watch Gravity Falls and Adventure Time. The angst is canon there.

 

i am always up for bookclubs! new book recs are great, and seeing other people's views on things i've read is fun.

 

Gravity Falls is occasionally horrifying. It's wonderful.

 

Probs more canon there than here, since Norm was in only 3 episodes and lots of the angst is basically more like Reasonable Headcanons than something that the show actually explores in detail (like, it provides fodder for the headcanons but not that much more, angstwise.) And if it helps you get into it, I think Norm the Genie is sexy. He's one of the few beings that I'm into that way, actually. XD

 

I'd be down for a bookclub kind of thing.

Yess! What good books. I haven't read them in, I dunno, 6 years, so I would be down for a reread.

 

So! For organizational purposes:

1) Which books would you like to start with? I think that if we're doing a more organized 'book club' thing, perhaps we should choose like... three or fewer books to start with, so that folks can read and discuss all the books they're interested in reading, without getting overloaded?

This does not apply to general squee, which is always welcome; just to 'let's all read this thing together'.

I will hunt down some internet-accessible books when I have a chance, if other folks haven't. (Fanfic also welcome, I think; we're not snobs here.)

2) How long do you think we should give people to read before discussing, so we can all be on the same page, and so we don't add too many books to the reading pile? Or should we just discuss as we read / finish reading?

 

1) I think we mentioned Ringworld/Known Space and the Bartimaeus "Trilogy." And fanfic, hmmm? That requires that we establish some fandoms and pairings and stuff that we have in common, doesn't it?

 

2) I would say a month or two, depending on the length of the books. We can always use this thread for organization purposes and start a new thread for each book, just to keep things clean.

 

And Animorphs came up in a thread, too. Though that's a 60+ book series so it miiiight not be the best for group reread.

Given all the daemon interest, His Dark Materials might be a good option, too. I could stand to read that again.

#I mean they're short books #because they're aimed at 90s preteens #but there are still like 64 of them #also I have a fanfic series rec which fuses both of these #it's animorphs with daemons #and it's amazing #everyone should read daemorphing

 

Having this as an organization thread and separate threads for each book seems well worth it.

I like most of the things suggested so far, but if we were to get into a big series of any sort I'd be remiss to not recommend Pratchett's Discworld. I've been rerere[...]rereading them along with the Mark Reads crowd, but that's slow going... they're good though, although perhaps something most folks have read.

I feel like a middle ground between "enough people have read this and know it'll be good" and "not too many people have read this so it'll be fresh and new for many" is important for a book club, although that might be harder online.

 

I've heard good things about Discworld. :D