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KC Jan 02 2006 03:54 PM

In the past, the CPF Book Club was an attempt to get a bunch of people to read a book and discuss it. It kinda failed. C'mon, it kinda did. I'd like to see the forum description changed to discussion of baseball books, particularly Mets' books (one of my resolutions is to re-read and read the mountain of crap I've collected), in addition to group discussion of whatever youse CPF Book Club peoples have in mind for yet another forum.

Edgy DC Jan 02 2006 04:25 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 02 2006 08:36 PM

]C'mon, it kinda did. You don't have to tell me. It's Li-- Willets who re-launched this. Lord knows I've failed to pilot this baby in the past. Feel free to change the description as desired. I more or less or exactly agree with you.

Willets Point Jan 02 2006 08:19 PM

On the other it hand it was Ed -- Edgy who made a whole new sub-forum about this, I was just planning on discussing the book in a thread. On the old CPF the CPF Book Club forum became a place to discuss baseball books in general so I don't see why we can't just use this new forum for discussing baseball books in general. I'm in favor of things literary, things without strict rules, and things that are fun & laid back in general.

cooby Jan 02 2006 08:52 PM

I've always thought it would be fun to have a place to discuss any books, like the film forum, not just baseball books. As long as it is not some stupid 20 year old paperback that you just picked up somewhere and nobody else is liable to read. You know, bestsellers or popular authors or classics

Edgy DC Jan 02 2006 09:05 PM

Heck, share with us your thoughts on dumb 20-year-old paperback bestsellers. The old place had some good reviews of dumb movies --- Snapple on Hard Rain, for example.

cooby Jan 02 2006 09:07 PM

Old movies and old paperbacks are way different aminals.

Johnny Dickshot Jan 03 2006 07:56 AM

I kinda agree with KC. If we're gonna segregate a whole room, it may as well be reserved for general baseball book reviews, suggestions and discussion a la films, and will get a better workout. (Don't know whether novels or whatever else need this more than the simple gdf thread) One thread per baseball book. The way things are looking you'll have a good discussion on the Thomas book, but no reason then not also to have a place for others.

sharpie Jan 04 2006 02:04 PM

I think this should be a general book review place which contains the reading group discussions. The "what are you reading now" GDF thread has seemed to me a "post a picture of the cover and don't say anything" thread and doesn't really invite discussion. 20-year-old paperbacks, whether baseball books or not, should be welcome.

Edgy DC Jan 04 2006 02:18 PM

How about calling it the "What Are You Reading Now?" Forum?

Yancy Street Gang Jan 04 2006 02:20 PM

It is a little frustrating that What are You Reading Now? is just a lot of pictures of covers. It would be more interesting if it was What Did You Just Finish Reading? and it included a sentence or two about the book.

sharpie Jan 04 2006 03:06 PM

I like the film review forum mode better where there is a thread devoted to every title. Not nearly as many people read an individual book as see an individual movie so the polls wouldn't be necessary but it would be good to have a place to write something about books. The "post-a-picture" GDF thread has its place if you don't really have anything to say about the book (or you think it has a pretty cover).

Yancy Street Gang Jan 04 2006 03:08 PM

What's GDF?

sharpie Jan 04 2006 03:09 PM

I meant NBF (Non-Baseball Forum). I got General Discussion Forum lodged in my brain from wayback.

Edgy DC Jan 04 2006 03:18 PM

Yeah, sharpie, that's the way I think of it. Typically, a thread for each book, but if Kiss It Goodbye does well, that could be multiple threads.

Yancy Street Gang Jan 10 2006 10:47 AM

I'm thinking that there should be several Kiss it Goodbye threads. (I can already think of three or four that I'd start.) Otherwise we'll be crossing over each other discussing different things in the same thread. We could include the words "Kiss it Goodbye" in the thread title so that they'll be easily recognizable. For example: Kiss it Goodbye: Why did Frank name all of his daughters Ann? Kiss it Goodbye: The fight with Richie Allen Kiss it Goodbye: Frank's year in Cincinnati (These are not, by the way, the threads I've been thinking I'd create.)

Edgy DC Jan 10 2006 10:54 AM

God idea.

Willets Point Jan 10 2006 10:56 AM

="Edgy DC"]God idea. Of course it's good idea!

Yancy Street Gang Jan 10 2006 11:01 AM

Actually, it was my idea. If God wants to take the credit, though, I guess I should allow it. I don't want to be smitten by any thunderbolts or anything. And I don't need to have a bunch of locusts buzzing around my house. (Although a plague of frogs would be pretty cool.)