Poll: OCUK Book Club - First book choice!

Which book first for book club?

  • Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Votes: 42 42.9%

  • Herman Melville - Moby Dick

    Votes: 10 10.2%

  • Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

    Votes: 7 7.1%

  • Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

    Votes: 8 8.2%

  • Joseph Heller - Catch 22

    Votes: 49 50.0%
  • Total voters
    98

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Hey!

After a thread (Found HERE) and a few emails back and forth with some of the mods there was discussion of modifying a section to allow for literature - but to get the ball rolling and start the first book club!

Firstly - as I knew that there would be a huge varied range of readers on this forum I would put five different books from different genres and see if a passing mod could turn it into a poll for me!

Sci Fi - Arthur C Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey

As the legend and genius himself passed away recently I thought this was the best choice for Sci Fi.

Classic - Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Classic - Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Contemporary - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Contemporary - Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Feel free if anyone wants to chip in anything else they would consider a good book to read - I will be picking the book from the most popular a week today (Friday the 28th).

Rich
 
I will vote properly if / when a poll is created. But for now I shall just post and say definitey 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I was planning on re-reading the series anyway, and now with the passing of Mr Clarke it seems only fitting.
 
Comedy - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy - Douglas Adams

A classic, don't know what else I can say :)
 
Surely Harper Lee's, To Kill A Mockingbird?
It's about as classic as books come. I'd also be very interested in being part of a book club, but missed it first time around.
 
NokkonWud said:
Surely Harper Lee's, To Kill A Mockingbird?
It's about as classic as books come. I'd also be very interested in being part of a book club, but missed it first time around.
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I did think of that - but it was one of my personal favourite books - but didn't want to just list a load of what I wanted to read! I will keep it in mind though.

Rich
 
Some of the books I have enjoyed reading most are:

As mentioned above, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
 
Has anybody read any of Bear Grylls books? I see he has quite a few out and would love to hear peoples opinions if anyone has read anything by him.
 
Clarke's Rama Trilogy is a fantastic read also imo :)

My vote would have to go to my favourite book which is "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card - am sure a few people on here must have read this also?
 
Would also be interested in a book club. From the OPs list I'd pick 2001 but out of choice I'd say something like The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett or Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.

The Gunslinger would also get a vote.

Some ideas maybe from the BBc's Big Read:

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
 
electric ant said:
Ive just started reading Catch 22, its started off a bit slow, hope it gets better :)
Book club sounds like a gd idea, my vote goes for space oddessy.
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Catch 22 is definitely worth perservering with....get a good few laughs later on...esp the Egyptian cotton bit IIRC.

I'd like to recommend Keruoacs(?) - On The Road as a classic choice
 
electric ant said:
Ive just started reading Catch 22, its started off a bit slow, hope it gets better :)
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You're not the only one, I got about 100 pages in a couple of years ago before putting it down with boredom.

Also funnily enough, a few of the books mentioned are ones I've been meaning to pick up.
 
Catch 22 slow? I didnt find that, it still has to be up there with one of the best books ive ever read, more in the concept it puts forward rather than the quality of the writing.
 
Sonea Fifer said:
Clarke's Rama Trilogy is a fantastic read also imo :)

My vote would have to go to my favourite book which is "Enders Game" by Orson Scott Card - am sure a few people on here must have read this also?
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Yup I read Ender's Game, good read - very bleak though.

For sci-fi I'd recommend some Peter F Hamilton books - Night's Dawn Trilogy or the Commonwealth Saga. I never really like sci-fi until I read Night's Dawn.
 
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