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Are you in a book club? Have you ever been in a book club? Would you like to be in a book club, but can't for some reason? Any interesting experiences?

Personally: I joined a book club a few months ago, partly because membership is free and gets me a 15% discount at the (pretty well-stocked) bookshop it's affiliated with. We meet every 2 weeks, and have a membership that varies at about 15, with 6 or 7 core regulars and upwards of 20 one hit wonders. We've done a reasonably varied selection.

An additional attraction for me is discussing fiction with a range of people from different backgrounds, as well as motivating me to read novels, which I rarely do otherwise.

So, if you have any tales from the world of book clubs, chip in.

Note: I am talking about the kind of book club where everyone reads the same book, then comes along and discusses it; not a club where you buy a subscription and then receive discounted books.

Books can make excellent clubs:

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I like the idea of book clubs because I love discussing and critiquing literature. However, I hate meeting deadlines, so I wouldn't like to have to read the book at the same pace as everyone else because I'm often too busy to read at all. Then when I get a free couple of days, I'll read a whole book in a day or two. Having to fit the schedule of the club would be too much of a burden for me.

Probably so would be a lot of their book choices.

i dont like analysing a book while im reading it for the first time. so book clubs arent really for me.

I used to have to read them in my classes with other students, and the answers they'd come up with to teacher-asked questions were painfully hilarious. And stupid. Painfully idiotic too. I admit I am quite scared that they''ll actually get important jobs when older. :eek2:

I now discuss books with my grandmother. We read fantasy, science-fiction, dystopian fiction, lots of stuff. :p

I've never belonged to a book club, but my gaming groups often would stumble across some gem and we'd spend a session discussing the book after we'd all read it. I discovered Stephen Brust this way, so it was productive. I suppose it's like anything else-just depends on who you're dealing with.

I used to have to read them in my classes with other students, and the answers they'd come up with to teacher-asked questions were painfully hilarious. And stupid. Painfully idiotic too. I admit I am quite scared that they''ll actually get important jobs when older. :eek2:

I now discuss books with my grandmother. We read fantasy, science-fiction, dystopian fiction, lots of stuff. :p

Aye, painful is the most accurate way to describe it.