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Originally Posted by gmw
The book I had in mind at the time this theme came up was The Great Wheel by Ian R. MacLeod. It's sci-fi, so isn't likely to gain your interest, Catlady, but when I got to the end of the book I could tell there had been things going on that I had missed, and I'd have loved to be able to talk it over with others who had read it. Curiously, I'm not even sure how much I liked the book, it just seemed like one I wanted to talk about. So I'm not going to complain if people decide to nominate a book on just such nebulous grounds as: this is one I want to talk about.
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Originally Posted by Victoria
GmwI had to smile reading this. I found myself separating nominations into distinct categories as well: ’books I like’, vs ’books I’d like to talk about’. Surprisingly, liking a book doesn’t seem essential to whether or not I’d enjoy having the club discuss it.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Oh! How I agree with this! The most important thing is a good discussion; I can read books I like on my own. In a way, it's almost the point; I'll get more out of discussing a book I would never have chosen for myself.  |
While I do
try to filter my selections to books that will be good discussions, it's not the most important determinant. It really has to be a book I'm interested in reading, or that I really enjoyed reading and want to encourage other club members to give a try of it.