Book Club Update

[ChrisFox]

Well, as you can see I've been a bit of a slacker. My personal list of books to read is ever growing and I've had little to no time to look into the ones chosen...sooo, pardon me thinking only of myself, but I'm just going to go ahead and make the first book Glue by Irvine Welsh. Seeing as it's the one I'm working on at the moment. Unless, of course, you guys want to stage a rebellion and go and do the research yourself.

Rated R for language, sexual content, drug use, and graphic descriptions: [i]Glue[/i] is a read-at-your-own-risk.

*Edit: I guess when and if people start reading we can just put the discussion in here.
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[ScarletTears]

This book got a three and a half out of five based on 51 reviews(Amazon.com). Here's what it's about, kindda, for u people who've never heard of it, just like moi.

Amazon.com
With a title like Glue, it would seem reasonable to assume that Irvine Welsh's fifth book is a meditation on the pitfalls of solvent abuse. In fact the word refers to the bonds that unite four boys, all of whom have grown up in "the scheme"--i.e., Edinburgh's slum-clearance flats, whose optimistic construction in the 1970s give way to the poverty, unemployment, and crime of the succeeding decades. It is the pervasive despair of these crumbling projects that defines the lives of the protagonists: budding DJ Carl Ewart, boxer Billy Birrell, work-shy, sex-mad Terry Lawson, and Andrew Galloway, a drug addict who has tested HIV-positive.

Recounted in the author's inimitable style, Glue is a grungy, Scots-accented bildungsroman. The novel follows the boys through their early forays into sex, drink, drugs, and football violence. Contemplating his erotic initiation, Carl Ewart poses such crucial questions as "How dae ah chat up a bird?" and "Do I wear a rubber johnny?" Here and there Welsh injects political commentary into the mix: Billy Birrell, for example, reflects that "having money is the only way to get respect. Desperate, but that's the world we live in now." For the most part, though, the author sticks to sex and violence and his famously offhand one-liners: "Guilt and shaggin, they go the gither like fish n chips." Fans of Trainspotting will love the book, even down to the brief appearance of Begbie and Renton. Others may feel that Glue is more of the same, and that, despite its graphic charms, the book finds Welsh stuck in a rut. --Jerry Brotton

Hmm...I'm not that enthusiastic about reading this book. I'll wait and see what other people think, before I make up my mind though.

[ChrisFox]

Heh. Yeah. I dunno, I like it so far.. Dunno, guess I just like Welsh's style. *shrugs* But my vote doesn't count. If you've got some other book in mind don't hesitate to make any suggestions. (goes to anyone)

Books I personally have in mind to read:
[s]Trainspotting[/s]
[s]The Acid House[/s]
Glue (finish anyway)
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Ecstasy
Letters From The Earth
The Story of B
My Ishmael
Choke
Punk is a Four-Letter Word
What Dreams May Come
Requiem for a Dream
Siddhartha
Lolita
Eragon
The DaVinci Code

It goes on and on and on and on....
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[dragonsun5]

oooo put demon's and angels on that one to chris...thats the prelude to the Da'vinci Code

Im up for reading eragon...im not really interested in Glue.....::shrugs::

cyaz

dragon :ph34r:

ill wait till next time then to reply on a book....

[ChrisFox]

Or you and the rest of the group could choose one and start reading/discussing it. No need for me to be dictating everyone. I merely started the thing. It's up to you all to keep it going.
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[ScarletTears]

I've been wanting to read Eragon and I've started to read the Da Vinci Code.

Here's a little thing from Amazon.com about it(Eragon).
* Average Customer Review: 3.96 out of 5 stars Based on 654 reviews.
Amazon.com
Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began Eragon when he was just 15, and the book shows the influence of Tolkien, of course, but also Terry Brooks, Anne McCaffrey, and perhaps even Wagner in its traditional quest structure and the generally agreed-upon nature of dwarves, elves, dragons, and heroic warfare with magic swords.

Eragon, a young farm boy, finds a marvelous blue stone in a mystical mountain place. Before he can trade it for food to get his family through the hard winter, it hatches a beautiful sapphire-blue dragon, a race thought to be extinct. Eragon bonds with the dragon, and when his family is killed by the marauding Ra'zac, he discovers that he is the last of the Dragon Riders, fated to play a decisive part in the coming war between the human but hidden Varden, dwarves, elves, the diabolical Shades and their neanderthal Urgalls, all pitted against and allied with each other and the evil King Galbatorix. Eragon and his dragon Saphira set out to find their role, growing in magic power and understanding of the complex political situation as they endure perilous travels and sudden battles, dire wounds, capture and escape.

In spite of the engrossing action, this is not a book for the casual fantasy reader. There are 65 names of people, horses, and dragons to be remembered and lots of pseudo-Celtic places, magic words, and phrases in the Ancient Language as well as the speech of the dwarfs and the Urgalls. But the maps and glossaries help, and by the end, readers will be utterly dedicated and eager for the next book, Eldest. (Ages 10 to 14) --Patty Campbell


It has a low review, but it was on the top seller for children's list for quiet a while. *shrugs.* I dont' know. I'm looking at the top seller's list on amazon right now and I see that The Da Vinci Code is still on the top ten. Angels & Demons is ranked 40. I'm up for reading either one. What say the rest of u?

[dragonsun5]

[quote="ScarletTears (Kris)"] Here's a little thing from Amazon.com about it(Eragon).
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u love to give reviews don't ya? not that its a bad thing...but maybe we should make you official reviewer person who gets info from amazon

well....lets make a poll....how bought we vote for the genre people want to read first....then outa that genre...people make suggestions...then u make another poll with the suggested books...and there is the month book....

just an idea..

cyaz

dragon :ph34r:

[ChrisFox]

Yeah, that's kind of what I had started and everyone voted Kurt Vonnegut as the author. If you could maybe run a poll on which books of his everyone wants to read, that'd be great. I was planning on doing this myself, but ran into difficulties as I became extremely busy.
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[iamem0tionless]

I think I'll read Glue anyway... it sounds interesting to me :/ I really need to start reading again.

[fallenangel]

I just finished Julius Caesar for Humanities. Anyone wanna discuss how Act IV is the most homo-erotic stage dialogue ever?
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[dragonsun5]

just put up a poll...go decide...i can put up a small review for each of them if ya want...

cyaz

dragon :ph34r:

correct me if i put up some wrong books..... <_<

[xWildfirEx]

You HAVE to read 'Black Box' by Nick Walker. Most awesome book ever.