[nesfa-reading-group] Next reads?

[Boogalouis]

I hoped to get to it yesterday but wasn’t able to. I’ll be at the clubhouse tomorrow night and will di it then. 

Louis
The bastard child of absurdity and the sublime

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> On Jul 16, 2019, at 7:36 PM, Chip Hitchcock <cjhi at newcastle2.com> wrote:
> 
> It ain't necessarily so. ISTM that a good recent book may be one that nobody has gotten to yet; some of us have very large TBR piles.
> 
> /CHip
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [nesfa-reading-group] Next reads?
> From: "David G. Grubbs" <dggrubbs at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, July 16, 2019 4:32 pm
> To: NESFA Reading Group <reading-group at lists.nesfa.org>
> 
> I would like to suggest that "want to read" is not the criterion for choosing a book. The criterion I'd like to use is "want to discuss".
> 
> If we use the algorithm of only choosing books none of us has read, then we are guaranteed to choose only mediocre books because all the good ones will already have been read by someone in the group.
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:17 AM R. Luoma <malkin8244 at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As usual, I am interested in books that seems possibly interesting
>> but I have not yet read.
>> 
>> Emma Newman  _Planetfall_ (2015)
>> 
>> I have not liked recent works by Greg Egan (I did like Permutation City and Schild's Ladder)
>> but I would give the following a try -
>> 
>> Greg Egan _Perihelion Summer_ (2019)
>> 
>> also 
>> Rudy Rucker _Million Mile Road Trip_ (2019)
>> 
>> Chen Qiufan _Waste Tide_ (translated 2019 by Ken Liu)
>> 
>> older books --
>> Nicola Griffith _Ammonite_ (2002)
>> Joanna Russ _Picnic on Paradise_ (1968)
>> Norman Spinrad _The Void Captain's Tale_ (1983)
>> Ken Grimwood _Replay_ (1987)
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