Shlub's Book Club (General Literature Discussion)
Posted: Tue Dec 31, 2019 7:50 pm
While browsing around the multiple "general discussion" type forums on this website, I noticed a severe lack of book based discussion topics. This is the topic to discuss all things literature, from sonnets to short stories to novels. Talk about your favorite books, authors, genre, whatever. Just keep the books you talk about appropriate like else you would find on this site (basically the book has to more or less follow the rules for the site). Feel free to make book/author recommendations or talk about a good book/series you have picked up recently. If you feel extra verbose, talk about what you look for in a book.
Spoiler Alert for any books discussed in this topic.
I'll start:
I enjoy reading heavily sardonic or surrealistic comedy, especially comedy written by British writers (British humor is majorly different from American humor. British humor is self-deprecatory and delivered in a deadpan way that counterpoints the absurdity of the situation). I also have a great love of science and self aware fantasy novels, so I recently decided to try the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett. His world (if you can call it that) is not set in a knockoff medieval Earth, unlike most fantasy.
His world is basically the modern world with medieval architecture and technology, combined with pretty much all of history that Pratchett decided to write about. Oh, and the world is a flat disk carried on the back of four elephants carried on the back of a giant turtle that swims through space. And Death, (who looks like the generic Grim Reaper with a scythe you see every Halloween) is also a physical character in the series and has some of the funniest lines in each book, especially in the book where he decides to quit his job as the Reaper and become a fry cook. There's forty odd books in the series, but definitely give the first few a try.
You also really can't go wrong with Ray Bradbury, and his novels need no more explanation than that. I'd start with The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451 if you decide to give him a read.
What books are you reading? What Authors do you like? Write it below. Try and keep everything close to the original topic of talking about books though.
Spoiler Alert for any books discussed in this topic.
I'll start:
I enjoy reading heavily sardonic or surrealistic comedy, especially comedy written by British writers (British humor is majorly different from American humor. British humor is self-deprecatory and delivered in a deadpan way that counterpoints the absurdity of the situation). I also have a great love of science and self aware fantasy novels, so I recently decided to try the Discworld series by Sir Terry Pratchett. His world (if you can call it that) is not set in a knockoff medieval Earth, unlike most fantasy.
His world is basically the modern world with medieval architecture and technology, combined with pretty much all of history that Pratchett decided to write about. Oh, and the world is a flat disk carried on the back of four elephants carried on the back of a giant turtle that swims through space. And Death, (who looks like the generic Grim Reaper with a scythe you see every Halloween) is also a physical character in the series and has some of the funniest lines in each book, especially in the book where he decides to quit his job as the Reaper and become a fry cook. There's forty odd books in the series, but definitely give the first few a try.
You also really can't go wrong with Ray Bradbury, and his novels need no more explanation than that. I'd start with The Martian Chronicles or Fahrenheit 451 if you decide to give him a read.
What books are you reading? What Authors do you like? Write it below. Try and keep everything close to the original topic of talking about books though.