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Jan 14th 2012 - Book Club weather outside today.
Call me old fashioned but there's nothing i like more then tucking in by the fireplace to read a book. I love to read.
I'm part of a book club called the The G.P.C. (f.r) "Gentlemen's Pistol Club (for readers)
Its kinda the opposite of Oprahs Bookclub. We read books with manly topics or subject matter like Westerns, Crime Fiction, War Epics. We even stray into a little Scifi.
But here's the thing that makes the club different, when we meet to discuss the book we do it in a lococation that is appropriate to the novel we are reading.
WE READ, THEN WE TAKE ACTION!
We read a fantasy novel - We discussed it at medieval times. We went paintballing after reading a huge war novel.We played Poker after reading a book about cards. Went to a ball game after reading a baseball book. We ate mountains of mexican food after we finished the western. We even went to lazer tag when we read a terrible scifi book.
Are you in a book club? Do you actually discuss the books when you meet?
Can you sujest any manly books for my club to read?
Let me know if you read anything recently that blew your mind, or just leave a comment bleow if you wanna say hi!
The G.P.C (f.r) book list so far;
Women by Charles Bukowski
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Sweet Forever by George Pelecanos
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer,
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Cobb by Al Strump
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
How to Wreck a Nice Beach by Dave Tompkins
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
High Rise by J. G. Ballard