So.

[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

[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.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Don't assume we've all read them already. I haven't read past Hotspur, because Forester's prose just started to bug me. I keep *meaning* to continue, though, so I'm up for this if it happens.