CP Book Club - October 15 Book: READY PLAYER ONE

[metallicat]

Damn, I'm well back in line to borrow the eBook from the library. I'll try and read it within October though. I'm always glad to get suggestions for a next book to read.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Fire

Anyone else find it ridiculous that wait lists exist for e-books?

That's only for library books though, no? I assume something to do with licensing agreements. Makes sense. If they had unlimited copies who would ever buy a kindle book?

[flylock shox]

For those of you who prefer to listen than read, I recommend the audio book for this one.

Narrated very well by Will Wheaton.

[InglewoodFan]

Originally Posted by oilers_fan

Damn, I'm well back in line to borrow the eBook from the library. I'll try and read it within October though. I'm always glad to get suggestions for a next book to read.

I added it to my hold list on July 20, and it still isn't available for me. I'm number 2 in line on 10 copies. Hoping I get it this week.

[troutman]

Ready Player One - Discussion Questions:

http://www.galesburglibrary.org/Book...yPlayerOne.pdf

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-r...one/#gsc.tab=0

http://www.shmoop.com/ready-player-one/questions.html

I like this question:

1. Wade's car is a Frankenstein's monster mash of cars from Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and Knight Rider. Is this an original idea? Can you make something original when you are building things solely from others' creations?

[metallicat]

Any chance we can plan some books a few months in advance for the future books? Just to give us library users a chance to pick it up and have it ready to go?

[troutman]

Sure, let's nominate books for November and December.

[flylock shox]

I'd nominate Unbroken or The Art of Racing in the Rain, for those interested. Unbroken in particular is an amazing story.

[GreenLantern]

Not trying to start the conversations early but wow oh wow, this book is good. Anyone on the fence about joining us do yourself a favor and pick this up.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Not trying to start the conversations early but wow oh wow, this book is good. Anyone on the fence about joining us do yourself a favor and pick this up.

I'm hopefully going to pick it up tomorrow, but I'm currently in the middle of another novel at the moment.

When do we need it finished by?

[GreenLantern]

Originally Posted by Locke

I'm hopefully going to pick it up tomorrow, but I'm currently in the middle of another novel at the moment.

When do we need it finished by?

Seems like discussion will start after October 15th

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...4&postcount=27

But better late to the party than not showing up!

[Fire]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Not trying to start the conversations early but wow oh wow, this book is good. Anyone on the fence about joining us do yourself a favor and pick this up.

Yeah, if you grew up in the 80's and played video games you'll definitely love it.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Seems like discussion will start after October 15th

http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...4&postcount=27

But better late to the party than not showing up!

Yeah, thats going to be tough but I'll pick it up and give it a go anyways.

[EldrickOnIce]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Not trying to start the conversations early but wow oh wow, this book is good. Anyone on the fence about joining us do yourself a favor and pick this up.

Ha. Agree completely. Read straight through it.
I actually finished it today

[troutman]

Originally Posted by flylock shox

I'd nominate Unbroken or The Art of Racing in the Rain, for those interested. Unbroken in particular is an amazing story.

November/December nominations:

I think you mean this Unbroken?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbrok...and_Redemption

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, author of the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001). Unbroken is a biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in three brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ar...ng_in_the_Rain

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a 2008 novel by Americanauthor and film producerGarth Stein — told from a dog's point of view. The novel became a New York Times bestseller, remaining on the list for more than 156 weeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orenda

The Orenda is a historical novel by Canadian author Joseph Boyden. It was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2013. The novel takes place in what was to become Canada in the early 17th century and is narrated by a Huron warrior named Bird, a young Iroquois girl named Snow Falls, and a French Jesuit missionary named Christophe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brie...Seven_Killings

A Brief History of Seven Killings is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James.[1] It was published by Riverhead Books.[2] The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in the late 1970s and its aftermath through the crack wars in New York City in the 1980s and a changed Jamaica in the 1990s.[3]HBO has optioned the novel and is planning a TV series, with no debut date yet announced.

[metallicat]

Here are a couple nominations: (are we allowed to nominate books too?)

Station Eleven - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ersion=service

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.


The Painter - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ersion=service

Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the wake of tragedy, Jim, a well-known expressionist painter, abandoned the art scene of Santa Fe to start fresh in the valleys of rural Colorado. Now he spends his days painting and fly-fishing, trying to find a way to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. He works with a lovely model. His paintings fetch excellent prices. But one afternoon, on a dirt road, Jim comes across a man beating a small horse, and a brutal encounter rips his quiet life wide open. Fleeing Colorado, chased by men set on retribution, Jim returns to New Mexico, tormented by his own relentless conscience.

[Locke]

I'm curently about halfway through "I Am Pilgrim":

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/bo...ayes.html?_r=0

[flylock shox]

Originally Posted by troutman

November/December nominations:

I think you mean this Unbroken?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbrok...and_Redemption

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand, author of the best-selling book Seabiscuit: An American Legend (2001). Unbroken is a biography of World War II hero Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war in three brutal Japanese prisoner-of-war camps.

Yeah, that's the one. Unbelievable story. So much so that I wasn't sure if was just based on a real story or not (apparently not).

I'm somewhat familiar with the European side of WWII, but this got me very interested in the Pacific story. Highly recommended (and also a well narrated audio book).

[Displaced Flames fan]

I read Ready Player One two summers ago. Brilliant storytelling. Loved it!

[EldrickOnIce]

Here's a couple I would like to add to the list as potentials for sometime in the future. These have been or are being adapted as movies and definitely want to read the book first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Places_(novel)

Dark Places is a mystery novel by Gillian Flynn published in 2009. The novel deals with class issues in rural America, intense poverty and the Satanic cult hysteria that swept the United States in the 1980s. Dark Places was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and won the Dark Scribe Magazine Black Quill Award for Dark Genre Novel of the Year. It was also listed on the New York Times Best Seller List for hardcover fiction for two consecutive weeks. A film adaptation of the novel was released on August 7, 2015.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanah

Americanah is a novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf, it tells the story of a young Nigerian woman who emigrates to the United States for a university education and stays for work.
The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.[1] It won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction),[2] and was shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction[3] of the United Kingdom.