Suggest a Book for the dissensus book club!

droid

droid

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Why dont we do this with ebooks?

Everybody recommend something and we'll make a shortlist.

No tomes.
 
droid

droid

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Not quite - I havent seen an actual list here in years, this is more of a 'heres some random books suggestions'.

Im thinking we actually have a proper, monthly nomination process along with links to the books themselves. Come up with a few titles, vote on one, read it, make desultory remarks, mock each others taste and score points afterwards.
 
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luka

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I think you should read something difficult or this will just be a desultory Richard and Judy episode.
 
you

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droid said:
Not quite - I havent seen an actual list here in years, this is more of a 'heres some random books suggestions'.

Im thinking we actually have a proper, monthly nomination process along with links to the books themselves. Come up with a few titles, vote on one, read it, make desultory remarks, mock each others taste and score points afterwards.
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I've wanted to read Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad. I think someone on here mentioned it years ago and it's been floating in my algorithms since.

Tea - that Fierce Dancing looks great! Would fit in with some of my research... and that cover. Damn.

I'll chuck B S Johnson's Christie Malry's Own Double Entry into the mix.
 
luka

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What's always confused me about dissensus is music wise it's forward thinking but when it comes to books it's incorrigibly middle brow
 
luka

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The anathemata, the cantos, maximus poems, finnegans wake, being and time, a knotty Blake like milton for example, a vision by wb yeats. Any of those would be fun.
 
droid

droid

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Incessant professions of superiority and intellectual virtue signaling - its indicative of insecurity, cracks in the foundations.
 
Wanda

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luka said:
The anathemata, the cantos, maximus poems, finnegans wake, being and time, a knotty Blake like milton for example, a vision by wb yeats. Any of those would be fun.
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Huh. These all seems to be written by dudes, bro.
 
Wanda

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Other ideas --

Madeleine Thien's 'Do Not Say We Have Nothing' (Booker Prize AND from Montreal :) ) - http://themanbookerprize.com/books/do-not-say-we-have-nothing-by-madeleine-thien

Clarice Lispector's 'Auga Viva' - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153462.The_Stream_of_Life

Chimananda Ngozi Adichie's 'Americanah' - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15796700-americanah

Zoe Whittall's 'The Best Kind of People' - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29220492-the-best-kind-of-people

Lisa Moore's 'Caught' - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124508-caught

Kate Atkinson's 'Life After Life' - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15790842-life-after-life
 
droid

droid

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OK, so is this the list so far?

Tea: CJ Stone, Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Wanda: Zoe Whittall's 'The Best Kind of People'
You: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Luka: Some unspecified cleverer book
HM Govt: Fistfights With Muslims In Europe: One Man's Journey Through Modernity
Droid: Pavane, Keith Roberts

Im going to nominate Pavane by Keith Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12508513-pavane
 
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