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Old 02-12-2018, 07:55 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What we could do is just not nominate a book written back when or any book about back when. Then all we'd be able to get is a more contemporary book. I know some of this has to do with availability and/or price, but if we read too many older books, it is going to put some of us off. I know it'll be putt off if this becomes a trend.

We had this sort of issue in the previous iteration of the book club because we had a lot of older book nominated and and then we also has classics which mostly were older books. Please let's not go down that road of older books in place of more current books.

Yes, we do have to give the new book club a chance, but it is also a good idea to try to prevent this from becoming mostly old books.
We're not going to limit which books people can nominate. Again, a contemporary work was just one vote shy. And look at Dazrin's lovely graphs about the MRBC; the books weren't as old as all that, overall. Last year the club read two books published in 2016 and the most popular decade overall was the 2010s. As far as I can tell, your two favorite book club reads from last year were Bucky F**king Dent (2016) and Queen Lucia (1920) - a century apart and two books I liked, as well.

(Psst! The Innocence of Father Brown was published in 1911. A terrific book, btw; I gave it four stars at Goodreads.)

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How long would be considered to be too long? I would say 500+ pages is too long. I might go with 400-450 pages be the top end.
There's no hard and fast rule. Some books read faster than others. Use your judgment.
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