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quigonejinn) wrote2006-02-02 05:15 pm
quigonejinn) wrote2006-02-02 05:15 pm
So.
It came up in another another thread, but anybody else up for a group reading of the Hornblower books? God knows I could use the help in untangling Horatio "Contact with Reality is for the WEAK" Hornblower.
Since we'd be at least familiar with each other, personally, I'm thinking a very informal kind of thing -- the point is to know more about the books, after all, and not to read them all or something. So no mods, no leaders, not much of a schedule besides the knowledge that, say, next Tuesday, we'll start chattering about ________. If you're done reading, jump in. If you're not done reading, then you can choose between jumping in or staying out until you're done. Chatter contines until people are like "![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quigonejinn, STFU and move on." And we do!
Totally flexible, though. Just point me in the direction of an excuse to re-read canon, and I'll be all over it. :D
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navalchronicle is up with an organizational post and a members-only one, too.
1. Should we do this on a mailing list or on LJ?
2. Approximately how fast do we want to go through the books? A book a month? More? Less? How fast do you want to read?
3. Do we want to go through the canon a book at a time, or should we go through them in chapters or bunches of chapters? (ex: we'll talk about chapters 12-19 of FC this week?)
4. Should we follow any kind of order? (IE, Forester publication or chronological? Or should we just go for the books that we damn well feel like?)
Since we'd be at least familiar with each other, personally, I'm thinking a very informal kind of thing -- the point is to know more about the books, after all, and not to read them all or something. So no mods, no leaders, not much of a schedule besides the knowledge that, say, next Tuesday, we'll start chattering about ________. If you're done reading, jump in. If you're not done reading, then you can choose between jumping in or staying out until you're done. Chatter contines until people are like "
quigonejinn, STFU and move on." And we do! Totally flexible, though. Just point me in the direction of an excuse to re-read canon, and I'll be all over it. :D
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navalchronicle is up with an organizational post and a members-only one, too.1. Should we do this on a mailing list or on LJ?
2. Approximately how fast do we want to go through the books? A book a month? More? Less? How fast do you want to read?
3. Do we want to go through the canon a book at a time, or should we go through them in chapters or bunches of chapters? (ex: we'll talk about chapters 12-19 of FC this week?)
4. Should we follow any kind of order? (IE, Forester publication or chronological? Or should we just go for the books that we damn well feel like?)
no subject
either mailing list or lj, you choose. i am partial to mailing list, but lj is just fine.
book a month to start sounds great. but really, we should just go along at our own pace, as dictated by how quickly we work through our -->
chunks of chapters, i think, except for the first book -- 1 chapter at a time there, i think. also the last book -- 1 story at a time.
i say in chronological order. but i will go with whatever anyone else wants. same for all of it.
it is 4am and i have class in <5 hours and i cannot sleep.
We're talking publication order, right? Beat to Quarters with its inimiatble Crazy!Horatio and then Crisis, at the end, with the extra storie at the end that they threw on for padding?
Group conensus makes it look like we're probably going to do it in chron order, unfortunately. Are you minded to do Midshipman one story-chapter at a time?
Re: it is 4am and i have class in <5 hours and i cannot sleep.