/r/52book discussion

Anyone planning a group read for this year's challenge?

I'd be interested in doing a group read. Do you have any particular book in mind?

I'll have to think about a good one. Not sure is a small or large book would be more fitting. But it would be nice to get a good group of people involved.

I'm up for a group read! It would be nice if there was a way to compare everyone's shelves easily to find the most common to-read books.

Great! I wish there was a vote system here to help decide on a book.

It looks like anyone can create a poll, and there's a check box to allow write-in answers so anyone can suggest a book.

If we get it sorted soon we can start the group read on March 1st!

Great plan! I was looking to read The Stand by Stephen King, but certainly open to suggestions.

Sounds good to me, I have not read it and it's one that I would like to read. 2 votes for The Stand.

How about Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky

That's also on my reading list. I had started reading it awhile back but got side tracked. Played the game too. Scary.

I want to read that as well, looks like we all have similar tastes. Which should we read first?

My vote is for Metro 2033, it sounds interesting!
Should we make a post on /r/52book? I bet there would be other people interested that don't visit Goodreads regularly.

Jessica wrote: "My vote is for Metro 2033, it sounds interesting!
Should we make a post on /r/52book? I bet there would be other people interested that don't visit Goodreads regularly."
I guess making a post on reddit would be a good idea. Any plans on how to outline the group read? Like read a certain number of pages/chapters per week or sth like that.

I think an easy way to break up the book would just to break it up by weeks. Set one book as the book for March and every Saturday or Sunday make a discussion thread. Most months have four weekends so just quarter the book up. Then we can also read what we're interested and read the book club book a little slower and not every day.

As for the book, I like the idea of reading the Stand. I've read it before and I loved it. I've been meaning to read it again. And it's long. It's a good book to slowly read and space out over a month.

But I won't complain if more folks to read Metro 2033. That's in my to read list so I'm interested in it as well.

I've added a post on reddit about it.

(http://www.reddit.com/r/52book/commen...) ?

I've upvoted and commented on it for visibility, the more people we get interested the better.

Metro 2033 got 19 chapters by the way. In a month this would mean 4,75 chapters per week or rather 4 in one and 5 in the other weeks.

I'd pop in to participate if the book happened to coincide with anything on my to-read list (and if anyone is interested in a paired read of anything on my list, feel free to message me). I'm trying to avoid buying more books, though, at least until I get my shelf of owned-but-not-yet-read books down under say, 35!

I do like the idea of a one-week book club, though. Daily discussion posts or similar?

I didn't realise anyone actually used the r/52book group! I'd certainly be up for a group read, though I think that deciding how many chapters to read a week would be a good idea. That way any discussion threads won't spoil the story for people who read slower than others.

My vote would be for Metro 2033. I read The Stand years ago and it was very heavy to carry around with me!

I vote for metro. I just finished The Stand in December. Y'all feel free to add me!

Someone mentioned having a way to compare the most common to read books…we could always try making a list and let people vote that way

(forwarning, phone typing)

it sounds like this would be more of a classic long term read over a few weeks; would anyone be interested in doing a more focused one-book-one-week thread at a faster pace sometime, discussing x chapters per day of a "shorter" 2-400pg novel?

I might start a thread here to organize a micro book club or similar if anyone bites, it might be a cool format for marathoning something like The Martian or even a classic novel like A Tale of Two Cities.

Coming in from the /r/52book thread, group read sounds like a cool idea! Seems like Metro is becoming the popular choice and would be good with me !

Coming in from the /r/52book thread, group read sounds like a cool idea! Seems like Metro is becoming the popular choice and would be good with me !

Made a poll:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...

Ends in 2 days, get yer votes in whilst ye can.

Thanks for the poll - I'm in for Metro ;)

Well I guess we don't have to wait until tomorrow to see that Metro 2033 has won. We have our first group read of 2013.

I like Pat's idea of breaking into four parts on a weekly basis. As tom said there are 19 chapters, so let's do 5/4/5/4.

Everyone happy with reading 5 chapters and meeting back here next Sunday for some discussion?

Sounds good

yes, but it is 2015 and 19 chapters means 5/5/5/4 not 5/4/5/4

...you've got me there, haha.

How's everyone on getting in then? At this point we should be around the start of chapter 6 if everything has gone according to plan.

I'm really liking the book so far, I'm a little surprised at how little has happened, considering we're a quarter through the book Artyom has not even halfway done with the task that Hunter set for him. Bit of a slow start for sure.

Despite this, I'm loving how creepy it is. A great atmosphere has been built up through the constant tension and suspense metro dwellers are subjected to. Life on the line is slow, the only thing that seems to move fast is rumour and mystery.

I really didn't know a lot about this book going into, except for 'future dystopian russian' with a sprinkle of mutants thrown in. That said we've no real concrete proof that mutants are actually a thing yet, apart from Artyom's brief flashback to an invasion a year or so back.

Also interested to discover what will come of this mysterious noise that seems to be fucking everything up. Two things are clear at the present: only Artyom seems to be aware of it and I think there might be some kind of psychic connection going on?

Enjoying it so far and looking forward to the next 5 chapters.

Sorry guys, didn't manage to get on track - I will join you next time. have fun ;)