I can't fathom why people like his stuff. Aside from Christmas Carol they all just go on and on and on and on....damn serials.

Only one time in my life have I taken an essay exam on a book I never read. That book was Hard Times. Some lit class or another when I was an undergrad. Blahblahblah. Misery, misfortune, woe. Dickens and Cooper: just say no.

It's already there. :p Score, we've got lots of people for our book club! Shall we set a date to finish with the book?

I'm in...
Fill me in the deets... we read the same book? Talk about a book we read?

Just wondering...

Am I alone in not being particularly enamoured with O. Henry. I'm about a third of the way through a collection of short stories and so far, I'm underwhelmed. Maybe I'm missing something.

Tom Robbins, on the other hand, is rocking my world. :)

Let's pick books that were made into movies. Then I could watch the movie and not read the book but still participate in the book club.
:D

I'm too ADD to read books.

Exactly.

GC: :p

I'm presuming Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is the first book - though I have yet to obtain a copy

However, anyone who would like to chat about Murakami, Niel Gaiman, or Duncan Glenn's I, Lucifer , which I'm reading at the moment, feel free to start a thread and I'll gladly join in.

Does that mean we have to buy 2 copies to get us both up to speed?

I'm reading The Devil in the White City at the moment. We can talk about that or any Murakami.

I loved Devil in the White City, read that last summer. Fascinating read, if a bit verbose.

OK, I think we have enough people in this thread alone to get this going. All I need is a "for sure" name of the book and a date that we're going to start talking about it... I'm cool with any book, I will not try to veto anything. If tracilicious' pick is cool with you, it's fine by me.
Let's start!