So, for unspecified reasons, the first book reviewed by the Modern Evil Virtual Book Club (MEVBC) will be Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. At least three members of MEVBC have already read it, but we’re going to give the rest of you … one week to read it before we have our VBC meeting. The Virtual meeting will take place in MSN Messenger, though we will consider other means in the future. Also, because I don’t know everyone’s availability, I’m going to say that we’ll meet online sometime next weekend: Either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Probably in the evening. Potential MEVBC members, let me know what day/time you think is best. If you don’t, you may miss out.
Oh, and the second book, for those of you who want to get a head start, will be Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy. Probably we’ll meet about that one in a couple or three weeks. From there, it’ll be books from the SF book list mentioned before, selected by the MEVBC members. Moo.
I will probably aspire to read these books, but weekly is just nuts. If it was monthly MAYBE I could do it. But I don’t know my schedule now until the week of, so I am suddenly put back in the position of being forced into sponteneity most of the time.
But my new job gives hella benefits, so I will probably be saving $100-140 a month on health insurance now, nevermind the tips and wages and stuff I will make. Whee!
I will probably aspire to read these books, but weekly is just nuts. If it was monthly MAYBE I could do it. But I don’t know my schedule now until the week of, so I am suddenly put back in the position of being forced into sponteneity most of the time.
But my new job gives hella benefits, so I will probably be saving $100-140 a month on health insurance now, nevermind the tips and wages and stuff I will make. Whee!
Okay, an Update:
The meeting for Fight Club (unless things change again) will be this Tuesday evening in MSNIM. If you can read the book before that time (an easy read at ~200 pages), email me for instructions on how to join our chat.
For the rest of you who are interested, we’re going to leave it at The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, but we’re going to set the date for … three of my weeks from today, 3/31/03.
At our meeting Tuesday (with suggestions accepted via email, if they arrive before the meeting, for those of you not reading Fight Club) we will decide the book for after the Foundation Trilogy. This will be the normal procedure, to always have at least the next two books for the club known, so fast readers don’t get bored and slow readers can skip every other book if they like.
Does that make sense? So, Iain: If 15 days is not long enough for you to read Foundation Trilogy, you have a couple of options. You could read as much as possible and follow along anyway. You could wait until Tuesday and start reading the following book with probably 5 or 6 weeks to read it in. You could find a nice hole near the hall of justice and stand around invisible in it all day.
Your choice.
Okay, an Update:
The meeting for Fight Club (unless things change again) will be this Tuesday evening in MSNIM. If you can read the book before that time (an easy read at ~200 pages), email me for instructions on how to join our chat.
For the rest of you who are interested, we’re going to leave it at The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, but we’re going to set the date for … three of my weeks from today, 3/31/03.
At our meeting Tuesday (with suggestions accepted via email, if they arrive before the meeting, for those of you not reading Fight Club) we will decide the book for after the Foundation Trilogy. This will be the normal procedure, to always have at least the next two books for the club known, so fast readers don’t get bored and slow readers can skip every other book if they like.
Does that make sense? So, Iain: If 15 days is not long enough for you to read Foundation Trilogy, you have a couple of options. You could read as much as possible and follow along anyway. You could wait until Tuesday and start reading the following book with probably 5 or 6 weeks to read it in. You could find a nice hole near the hall of justice and stand around invisible in it all day.
Your choice.
Okay. The chat will be tomorrow (Tuesday the 18th of March, 2003) at 8PM MST in MSN IM.
Okay. The chat will be tomorrow (Tuesday the 18th of March, 2003) at 8PM MST in MSN IM.