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[quigonejinn]

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 "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?)

Comments

[iansmomesq.livejournal.com]

I like the idea.

1. Perhaps we keep it on LJ and start up a community specifically for it.

2. Speed -- we can start out with your idea of a book a month and then see where that gets us. I've done these where we go through a book every two weeks, or two months... depending.

3. Chapters. That way everyone's on nearly the same "page."

4. I'm thinking chronological. See the development of Scary!Crazy!Horatio as we go along that way.

Just my .02.

[black-hound.livejournal.com]

1. I like the idea of LJ too. One stop shopping since we're all on here already.

2. A book a month sounds like a good starting point. Since we've probably all read these at least once already, as it goes along we may be find that we can speed up the timetable.

3. I have no real preference for chunking the discussion a whole book at a time vs. doing it piecemeal. How's that for decisive. *g*

4. I'm torn between chronological and the 'whichever way the wind is blowing'. But for the semblance of some sort of order I'll stop waffling and say chronological.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_oggy_/]

sounds fantastic., count me in.

my vote is for chuncks of chapters other than whole books, just so i can keep things fresh in my head.

[cleverthylacine]

So let me know if you guys do this, because I should probably actually read the books. (I've only seen the movies.) And I would want to read them in chron order, because I'm weird like that.

[font.livejournal.com]

yes please!

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.

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[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

1. An LJ comm. If you want help with it, let me know.

2. A book a month seems good for people who are reading for the first time, though not as fast as I want to consume them.

3. I don't care.

4. I think we should go in the order Forester wrote them, because that's what I did first and it makes sense to me. Plus I find Atropos even more heartbreaking if you already know what happens to those kids.

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Book club! If it's on LJ I'll join.

[flameofdeath.livejournal.com]

I like the format of the a_chapter_a_day (except maybe we can have, like, a chapter a week?). How we post the chapter number of a certain book and for that whole week, we discuss it amongst ourselves in comments. That way, conversation is easier to find and whatnot.

*shrugs* Just a suggestion, of course. If you need help, I'd be glad to help.

[phantomsangel.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a grand idea to me! Count me in!

I think the idea of a LJ community would be the best way to go.

Perhaps a chapter a week would be a good pace, as most people on LJ do have real lives. ;)

No real preference as to the order, though I think it would be neat to do them in order and be able to discuss this with others. :)

[ms-nerd.livejournal.com]

I'm here from despatches. Great idea - I was planning on reading them again (and again) and this is just the kick in the pants I need to get going.

1. lj
2. One book a month
3. Chapters because it gives us a smaller chunk of book to work with and would probably lead to more in-depth discussion.
4. chronological

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Hello, I'm here from the recent crack_van rec. I love the Hornblower novels, but have never got into much of the fanfic since it's so often based on the TV series and Archie-centric! Love your long post about Bush's characterisation, and have just joined your new reading community. I'll be away for the first two weeks, but look forward to joining in after that.