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Post by Ammy Fae on Oct 1, 2008 12:59:07 GMT -5
Suggestions for November's Book of the Month will be up until approximately one week before November, when all suggestions will be put into a poll to be voted on. Along with your suggestion, please include the genre of the book and maybe a mini-review to include in the poll.
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Post by keyodie on Oct 1, 2008 20:36:45 GMT -5
 Requiem For A Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. - This book is about addiction. Addiction to heroin, addiction to diet pills, addiction to TV, addiction to dieting. It tells the story of 4 characters and their downward spiral as they are more and more consumed by their addiction. The writing style for this book is very different, with a whole bunch of run on sentences and no quotation marks. But I think the way everything just flows into each other without organization makes it feel a bit like a dream, more chaotic, and it is more fitting to the story. Also, for the no quotations bit, you can differentiate between the characters because they use different slang, and the author spells words differently to show accents and such. It's a bit hard to read at first, but you'll get the hang of it after a while. I did, anyway. ETA: Animal Farm (George Orwell) is another good one. It's short though.  |
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Post by keyodie on Oct 14, 2008 16:02:12 GMT -5
Wooo another suggestion.  It's roughly based on the life of Siddhartha Gautama, or the Buddha. It's about Siddhartha's quest to achieve Nirvana. It's a very interesting book with a lot of thought provoking passages. |
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Post by Caunion on Oct 14, 2008 20:46:40 GMT -5
Oh, I read that book. It was really interesting. Certainly helped with the de-conversion process.
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Post by keyodie on Oct 14, 2008 21:02:06 GMT -5
De-conversion process? xD
And yeah I agree, it was very interesting. A really different perspective, I think.
ALSO. I was wondering, maybe we should start putting topic questions in the first post for BotM? That way it'd be easier to get a discussion going.
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