AE Book club

Guys I just thought up a great idea. How about once a month (lets go with the first of the month). We suggest and together as a group decide on a book to read. Then we can discuss it.

Book discussion is a very nice stimulus of intellectual conversation. So what do you guys think? Any suggestions for first book? Or genre even?

Actually I don't really care whether it's non-fiction or fiction.

The first criteria that should be brought up is a book that the majority of people haven't read, or a book that people will want to read again. I personally would prefer something that's readable and won't cause too much controversy. Like I don't think people want to read "The manufacturing of wingnuts: An accountants perspective" but I also don't think people want to read "The Glory of the KKK".

Actually I just thought that we could start by offering suggestions.

I'll suggest the Kalevala. Mostly because I've always wanted to read it but never had the real drive to.

Oh and I would suggest that we refrain from series of books that are longer than three since you really have to read all the books in a series to truly enjoy them.

As to the availability of the Kalevala here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/index.htm

Also, I do agree english should be the default, as that's what the forums in. Also availabilty should be a HUGE indicator. If more than 2/3 of the people have problems finding our selection than we should switch to the next highest choice.

I dunno, really, I've never done a book club. Um, I think things around what are your favorite characters, scenarios, settings, etc. and why? Why do you believe the finns would choose this as their national epic? and why does it i deserve to be called a national epic, etc. Or just things in the book you found interesting.

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How about this for the first 3 weeks we have the selection and voting process and then for the next week we check it's availability so we can start the book on the first of the month.

So far we have:

Kalevala- 2

I Claudius, the Tutankhamun affair- 1

The Once and Future king- 1

Any more suggestions people

I,Claudious by Robert Graves

The Tutankhamun affair by Christian Jacq

I think you have a point there.

The Odyssey can be interpreted on several levels too. I don't know if that's the case with the Kalevala, though.

On a second note, btw, I, Claudius seems pretty interesting to me too - both are fine with me.

EDIT: I love Don Rosa's Donald Duck's comics btw, his biography of Uncle Scrooge is awesome!

yes indeed, I love all the Don Rosa comics. and pretty often they have a historical background which is also nice.