New Idea

[Cookie Monster]

One specifically for this section. How do you lot feel about doing some poetry analysis? We would basically post one poem(a published work) a week, analyze it line by line and talk about it. I suppose you guys can PM me suggestions of poems and/or writers, and I'll make a thread for it. Aye?

 

[Alex]

Aye, I might be up for that.

 

[Tennyo]

I'd be down. I have a couple poetry books myself.

Speaking of books, I think it would be fun if this site had like a book club, where we all read one book a month and then discuss it.

 

[Cthulhu]

I'd personally be more inclined for the book club idea. Or just general book-specific threads, for that matter. It would be neat to set up a list of books that should be discussed at one point.

 

[Dawnbreaker]

Maybe both? I have a huge book my man gave me of Edgar Allen Poe's poems and stories. I'd love to take some quotes and such.

 

[Cthulhu]

I think my brother's got that one too (or at least a similar one). I don't know anything about the dude, but his name appears so often like everywhere, I am becoming curious, .

 

[looneymoon]

I really dig this idea, it's pretty awsome actually

and that's coming from someone who generally doesn't dig poems too much

 

[Tennyo]

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Maybe both? I have a huge book my man gave me of Edgar Allen Poe's poems and stories. I'd love to take some quotes and such.
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Hey so do I!

 

[Alex]

I'd do the book reading club too, so long as the book gets decided at the start of the month whilst I still have money

 

[sheens]

Both. /englishlitstudent

 

[Cookie Monster]

[quote author=S link=topic=513.msg17767#msg17767 date=1234571243]/englishlitstudent
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Yes. This. This will be good practice, imho.

 

[Cthulhu]

You have my sword Just set it up posthaste.

 

[Ravynne Nevyrmore]

Not me, cba to read. Now make it visual art and I'm in.

 

[Cthulhu]

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Not me, cba to read. Now make it visual art and I'm in.
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How about a graphic novel? Watchmen should be good, .

Speaking of, I've put that on my wishlist, meaning I might go buy it once wicba.

 

[Strangelove]

This would have been good practice if I hadn't just finished that part of my course

But it would still be interesting. So aye

 

[Cookie Monster]

I guess I'll pick the first poem, something simple to see how this goes. And I'll set up the book thread later.

 

[Ravynne Nevyrmore]

How about a graphic novel? Watchmen should be good.

Now graphic novels I adore, but can't spend money on them at the moment. I can barely pay my bills. D:

 

[Cthulhu]

I can, but I'm holding off on buying anything major until my reserves are back up.

 

[Cthulhu]

So, book one next?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Any suggestions?

 

[Cthulhu]

I already did a topic on 1984, which encouraged some good discussion, I think. But that topic has died down a bit, and I'm pretty sure all has been said about that.

With current development, Watchmen would be a good choice. I've only started reading it yesterday (finished episode 3 today), and there's plenty of stuff to be discussed in there - the 'comic within a comic' (pirates or whatnot) that relates to the story of the novel, for example. And many more.

Other than that, I have this awesome book on computer organization, processor architecture, memory management, multi-threading, and the odd smart remark by the author (stuff like funeral cards with music and whatnot). It'd be awesome to discuss all that, . But I doubt there's many people that would read that, .

Other than that, I haven't read much recently. I started reading The Children of Hurin, which I could probably fill a few paragraphs about already (mainly in terms of the writing style up until now), but I dunno if that would be suitable.

 

[Cookie Monster]

I guess Watchmen would be most reasonable, given its current popularity.

Also, someone gave me The Children of Hurin as a gift, so we should definitely use that later.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Watchmen Thread

GO GO GO.

 

[Cthulhu]

Excellent. I'll be able to discuss it as I go along, instead of after a while and forgetting half the nuances and whatnot.