LoT Book CLub - Book 3 is what?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I have an extra book, if anyone wants to join in round 2?

Loan it to Jorge?

[Prudence]

I'm still working on the wind-up bird and his chronicle, as well, it's just been slow going for me -- too many distractions.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

I just started, and I've only read 3 chapters. You have company!

Mine's still in the Barnes & Noble bag.

[lizziebith]

Hey there's no rule against having a round two of Wind Up Bird... is there? How about a late-comers book club? I still have to finish about 5 chapters of a friend's novel before picking up Bird...I could start after the weekend!

What say you others who have yet to really get going on Bird?

[Matterhorn Fan]

I may end up bailing in a couple weeks when things get busier, but I'll do my best.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Threads can always be bumped. Another round of swankers may already be discussing the next book, and some might skip a book or two - it's all good. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

And here I thought you were Jewish,

Cheers Mr. Crowley

[tracilicious]

Ok, since the vote seems to be the annoying top five ranking thing, I shall rank. Actually, I only really know anything about my books and Kite Runner, and my books don't have votes so far, so I shall just rank one book.

1. The Kite Runner.

I really really recommend that everyone read The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint at some point. It's hilarious, and heartbreaking, and lots of other adjectives. One of my favorite books ever. Which is saying something considering I just read Murakami.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

And here I thought you were Jewish,

Cheers Mr. Crowley

Jewish yes, though I've taken a few detours as well, one of which was Ayn Rand's Objectivism. I know she stole a thing or two out of Crowley's book...

*tips hat to Crowley and his admirers*

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Ok, since the vote seems to be the annoying top five ranking thing, I shall rank.

Eh, I'd rather not rank. Seems like a lot of work to me and my time online is short. You guys pick, I'll read the book or I won't.

If I can pick one book I pick my own recommendation, Time Traveler's Wife. If that doesn't work within the top 5 system then don't worry about it.

[mousepod]

I just started Wind-Up Bird, too - so I guess we can have a tiny latecomers thread somewhere...

As for the next book - here's a left-field suggestion based entirely on my own selfish I-just-bought-it-today-at-Borders-and-I-want-someone-else-to-read-it-too reason: "The Queen of the South" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Due to some odd case of synchronicity where both my bookshop-owner pal recommended his books and Alex praising him in another thread (I think specifically "The Club Dumas" in the Movie Musings thread), I went and bought this one. I'm gonna read it, dammit, and if anyone wants to talk about it with me, well...

Readers of Pérez-Reverte's sixth thriller won't be able to turn the pages fast enough: the author of The Club Dumas, The Seville Communion and other literary adventure novels now tackles the gritty world of drug trafficking in Mexico, southern Spain and Morocco, offering a frightening, fascinating look at the international business of transporting cocaine and hashish as well as a portrait of a smart, fast, daring and lucky woman, Teresa Mendoza. As the novel opens, Teresa's phone rings. She doesn't have to answer it: the phone is a special one given to her by her boyfriend, drug runner and expert Cessna pilot Güero Dávila. He has warned her that if a call ever came, it meant he was dead, and that she had to run for her own life. On the lam, Teresa leaves Mexico for Morocco, where she keeps a low profile transporting drug shipments with her new lover. But after a terrible accident and a brief stint in prison, Teresa's on her own again. She manages to find her way, but Teresa is no mere survivor: gaining knowledge in every endeavor she becomes involved in and using her own head for numbers and brilliant intuition, she eventually winds up heading one of the biggest drug traffic rings in the Mediterranean. Spanning 12 years and introducing a host of intriguing, scary characters, from Teresa's drug-addicted prison comrade to her former assassin turned bodyguard, the novel tells the gripping tale of "a woman thriving in a world of dangerous men."