Calling all keen readers - book club

[kayelle]

Hi Book Worms

I am away for the next 2 weeks... will try to pick up something that's been recommended by you guys in the airport bookshop!

And hopefully we can meet up late Sept / Oct and have a good book discussion.

xoxoxo

[kayelle]

hi book worms!

i just finished reading Kafka on the Shore on the plane to Tokyo...

i have such mixed feelings about it! who has read it?

it was a very interesting read and had many new ideas in it, and i read it eagerly... definitely a page turner.

but at the end, so many ambiguous endings that I can't understand. the author didn't really explain many unexplicable happenings in the book, the reason for it etc. like, who on earth is that colonel sanders? what drove Nakata to find the stone? Why did he die, etc etc... who the h*ell was The Crow... someone please explain!!!

[haw]

hi, is this book club still meeting? many books discussed here are ones i've really enjoyed in the past.

[HongKongLooey]

I'd be interested in joining a book club if it's still happening...

[quepasopana]

@kayelle.

Man, it's been a while since I've read the book Kafka on the Shore... I would be interested in discussing it. I would have to re-read some parts of it though. I thought it was very straight-forward.

Everything doesn't have to happen for a reason. Colonel Sanders is explained by he is an entity. He is not anything. He is just there as a shape that shares resemblances with Colonel Sanders. As for the stone, nobody knows why anybody had to do it but both of them had to. They just had to. It was their 'calling'. In addition, he didn't have much else to do. Nakata I mean.

I might be talking too much. Just everything doesn't have to happen for a reason. But it was pretty straightforward to me. It is also a book closely related to magical realism so it is real and yet magical. Somewhat like Isabelle Allende's House of the Spirits, even though I haven't read it, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novels and short stories if you want to look more into this genre. To tell you the truth, some of Mitch Albom's books have this as well, eg. For One More Day.

Anyways, if anybody is still willing to meet up, that would be cool! We all need a bit of intellectual stimuli...

[Mr. Guppy]

I would be interested in organising a book club too. There are so few of them here. I have recently rediscovered my literary bent, my favourites are classical literature and history but would be pleased to venture beyond my comfort zone. Would like to hear from you all.

[Wazzato]

Hi

I am a "Forgotten Realms" fan. Does anyone out there have any of these books they could kindly lend me? I read them quite quickly, so I would get them back to you in no time. Please let me know, thank you.

Anyone?

Wazzato