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Which New Weird book would you like to discuss during March?
Our focus for March is "New-Weird" with focus on author Jeff Vandermeer. For our "main" discussion, we could either suss out the New Weird genre by having a look at the entries in Ann VanderMeer's anthology The New Weird, or we could read something by Jeff VanderMeer.
Our focus for March is "New-Weird" with focus on author Jeff Vandermeer. For our "main" discussion, we could either suss out the New Weird genre by having a look at the entries in Ann VanderMeer's anthology The New Weird, or we could read something by Jeff VanderMeer.
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Jan 17, 2015 02:36PM
They are all excellent books. Dradin in Love is priceless! Part of City of Saints and Madmen.
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In any case, it would be interesting to see how people react to it. :)
Does it matter which one I start with, if I've not ready any yet? I ask because these are all Ambergris novels, right? (I know a bit about him, but haven't read any of his books.)
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They are, T.D., but the first one, City of Saints, is more a collection of short stories than a novel proper, with maybe one or two the length of a novella.
The other two are novels that take place in the same 'world' but they are not that closely linked together, I am told, that it would make much of a difference which one you start with.
City of Saints will you give you some background on the world, but the three volumes are not completely essential to one another.
Traveller wrote: "T.D. wrote: "Does it matter which one I start with, if I've not ready any yet? I ask because these are all Ambergris novels, right? (I know a bit about him, but haven't read any of his books.)"Th..."
Thanks, Traveller. Well, I suppose I don't really mind where we begin, then :)
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Since we can afford to be freer with our structure here, we thought it would be good to see how it pans out - not all people like to spend a lot of time on large discussions, so we're trying to make space for 'smaller' ones as well.
Tough. City of Saints has been on my TBR for a while too, so I'm fine with it. But I'm in the mood for a good mystery too (love Chandler) so I'm going with Finch!
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Man, you don't know how long I've been wanting to read Finch... I bought it about 3 years ago and it's been winking at me.... maybe we can do a buddy read for it or something... :P (Since City of Saints seems to be winning here) Shall we? :P Maybe i can personally convince some more people to come along with that. We'd have to make do with one thread then, though...
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I think I'll do a structured folder for City of Saints which we then read and discuss together in an ordered manner.
How do members feel about us doing a dedicated folder for The New Weird, and make it a folder on which members can start their own threads about the various entries in the anthology?
I mean, speaking for myself, I often tend to cherry-pick out of an anthology like that, and if we do it that way, then each person gets to chat about those stories or articles that interest them. That sound like an plan?
Traveller wrote: "Turns out there is quite a bit of interest for both City of Saints -and- the New Weird.I think I'll do a structured folder for City of Saints which we then read and discuss together in an ordered..."
Sounds like a great plan to me. Will give us a great reading thread, and a thread to pop in from time to time. Might make it busy for a Finch buddy read, but I'm up for that as well... just a matter of timing, and skipping some sleep :)
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SLEEP! Sleeeeeppppp! Argh, i need more hours in my day because as it is i am a zombie coz i need more of that thing. *cry* (Or simply more time .... TIME! )
