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MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby misterecho » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:28 am

I am going to start a book club.

A 1km1kt Monkey special education program, if you will. This is different from our indoctrination program as it is entirely optional.

we'll be doing one book a month. I know it's not a lot, but it's enough to ensure all the participants (could be me only) have a chance to finish.

I'd like to see some discussion on the book queue, although we'll be starting October (I know it's late) with

We'll not be including game books as the idea is to keep it cheap.

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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby Groffa » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:36 am

Oh, good idea! I just read Dune this summer.
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Postby Chainsaw Aardvark » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:54 am

I whole-heatedly approve of this initiative.

However, October and November aren't the best months for me to start, since I'm preparing for a three week international trip and taking one respectively.

Do you have a list of books already, or should we start a thread of ones we recommend? As a follow-up question, is this going to be limited to fiction?
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby misterecho » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:28 am

I started with Dune as it's next in my personal queue. I wholeheartedly encourage recommendations. I think I'd like to stick to fiction for the time being, I read enough non-fiction for college to keep me going. The novels are a way of me escaping.

I'm happy to continue on my own as a one man book club, posting my thoughts post book. Then monkeys can drop in and out of the special education program as the time becomes available.

Thanks for the encouragement!
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby maledictus » Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:01 am

I'll like to join! Altough I live in a country where reading is not very popular (a terrible shame, indeed) and is hard to find good fiction books, but I'll do my best to find any book you propose.

Dune is one of my favorite books, but the last time i read it was some years ago, I'll have to re-read it!

Also, I want to buy an eReader to find books easier, any recomendation?
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby misterecho » Thu Oct 13, 2011 8:25 pm

As soon as I can convince Rob to create a sub forum for the book club we can all start posting recommendations and our thoughts on the books being read.
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby Rob Lang » Fri Oct 14, 2011 2:19 am

Is this something that needs a new forum? Like all new forums, I think we should see it have a test run in a thread and if there is lots of persistent interest, we'll make a forum for it.
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby misterecho » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:15 am

ok then
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Re: MrE's Monkey Education Program

Postby misterecho » Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:27 am

My recommendations:

Enders Game. Orson Scott Card

The Forever War, Joe Haldeman

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

I haven't read any of these, but I would like to see them in the pile as they come highly recommended. What are your recommendations?
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