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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
ETA:
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?)
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I was talking to a friend tonight who is about to embark on reading the books (my powers of pimping are mighty), and I talked myself into the opposite opinion than I had before, just because she is very spoiler-averse wrt movies and tv, and knowing how the story comes out really ruins it for her. She's kind of on one end of the spectrum there, but I think there's a little of that in many people. I don't personally have that issue, but also, people do seem to do better with linear storytelling, in my experience in fandom.