The Rejected Book Club

[Harmoneia]

I’m thinking of putting up a “book” club but because we are busy pseudo-intellectual with very intellectual lives, it will instead be short stories (about 5 pages each, give or take).
It will be a nice experience and the bookmaster can either serve some term, which I can be for some time, or revolve for every assigned reading.

If at least 4-5 are interested, we can vote on a reading material (perhaps start with a light Tolstoy?) and then get it going. Do express your interest here!

[Bluie Gamer]

If this gets me pinged on Discord whenever there's a new thing to read I'm down

[Nequedum]

Same stipulation as good Sir Bluie Gamer over yonder.

[Catalyse]

Still too pseudo-intellectual. We should have a movie club and watch movies instead, and let go off the shackles of pseudo-intellectualism.

[Harmoneia]

Wow I even mentioned a Russian author for you!

[Wopruthien]

I'd join a movie club. Not sure I have time to read a book. But if I've read it or want to read it i'll make time.

[frattastan]

Did you read the OP, Wop? It's to read 5-page long short stories.

"I don't have time for that".

[Wopruthien]

No I just got a ping and saw the title.

Too long OP.

[Harmoneia]

I'll choose a 1-page short story just for Wop. It'll be in Chinese though.

[frattastan]

Five pages is extremely short, which I feel kinda limits the narrative possibilities of the story (either it's a moral parable, or a narration that relies on a final twist that changes the entire perspective, since there's not enough time to pack a proper plot there).

I know that escapist literature isn't very pseudo-intellectual, but the first I thought about was The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft.

"Let's read some impenetrable Kafka short story, instead."

No I just got a ping and saw the title.

Too long OP.

Ok, maybe even five pages is too much for you.

I'll choose a 1-page short story just for Wop. It'll be in Chinese though.

Yay do it.

[Nequedum]

Margaret Atwood is very pseudo-intellectual. Anything hybrid like that.

[Catalyse]

We should read Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler.

[frattastan]

We should read Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler.

Will you read it / pretend to read it while commuting to look smart?

[Catalyse]

We should read Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler.

Will you read it / pretend to read it while commuting to look smart?

Only if we all do it.

[thechurchofsatan]

I like the idea of a book club. Never had the opportunity to talk about some Lovecraft with anyone.

[Harmoneia]

I was toying with shorts by Edgar Allan Poe, but Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft does sound like a good fit!

If people are fine with this I think we should go ahead with Lovecraft.

[thechurchofsatan]

You had me at Outsider.

[Nequedum]

Hey, I have a really good original idea for what we should read for this week.

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/tex ... ion/o.aspx

Thanks for considering it!

[Libetarian Republics]

We should read Man and Technics by Oswald Spengler.

Will you read it / pretend to read it while commuting to look smart?

Only if we all do it.

I thought we already do this.

[Deadeye Jack]

I could use some pseudo-intellectual brain stimulation

[frattastan]

I could use some pseudo-intellectual brain stimulation

We'll leave Grim's anarchist literature suggestions for the next time.
This week we're reading Lovecraft's The Outsider. Not pseudo-intellectual but it'll do. :>

[Catalyse]

I'll wait until we read Man and Technics.

[Deadeye Jack]

I could use some pseudo-intellectual brain stimulation

We'll leave Grim's anarchist literature suggestions for the next time.
This week we're reading Lovecraft's The Outsider. Not pseudo-intellectual but it'll do. :>

Well I've already learned one thing from the book club: Lovecraft is not for me.

[frattastan]

[Nequedum]

I could use some pseudo-intellectual brain stimulation

We'll leave Grim's anarchist literature suggestions for the next time.
This week we're reading Lovecraft's The Outsider. Not pseudo-intellectual but it'll do. :>

Well I've already learned one thing from the book club: Lovecraft is not for me.

Preach