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New Book SubForum

Discussion in 'Books' started by Nettdata, Sep 27, 2014.

  1. Nettdata

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    Mr. Toast

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    So it seems that we have a few readers around here, so I've spun up a new sub-forum with a few thoughts on how it would work.

    Post a new topic about a book you're reading to contain discussion within that single thread, rather than having the one big monster thread for everything.

    We now have a "vote for the next official TiB book club selection" thread where you can suggest a new book, and everyone can vote on it.

    We'll spin up a new thread for each "official" TiB selection for discussion.


    It's a work in progress, but let's see how this goes.

    Feel free to make suggestions in this thread about what you might like to see.
     
  2. Nettdata

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    FYI, I've made Not The Bees! a mod of this subforum.
     
  3. LatinGroove

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    You gave me a great idea in your rep which sort of reminded me of the education thread which was a "required reading" of sorts. I would love to see a sticky of required reading in one giant list along with a brief description next to each recommendation of why.
     
  4. Nettdata

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    The "Book Club Selection" thread could almost be that, as I can't see anyone recommending a book that sucks.
     
  5. downndirty

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    Two ideas:

    One, can we have a nonfiction thread? I like reading (surprisingly), but there's a difference between recommending the Dresden Files to the millionth person and stuff like Guns, Germs and Steel.

    Two, instead of a "required reading", how about a top five thread? We did this in grad school, because none of us had enough reading to do and it was pretty interesting.
     
  6. Nettdata

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    Can you guys not create threads in this forum?

    You should be able to, so feel free to fire up what you're talking about, see how it goes.
     
  7. Juice

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    Kampf Trinker will be taking over the mini-mod duties of the Book Board.