i usually hate lists, but i liked this one.
i've read most of these authors (well, 11 books from the list)

looking for my next read, so recommend a good book you've read
about to start on a brief history of seven killings

recently read and enjoyed
frog music -donoghue
the bone clocks - david mitchell
the robber bride - atwood
(and her madaddam latest)

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

I've been reading shit for school and will be able to read for pleasure without feelings of guilt in a couple of weeks.

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/these-writers-are-not-to-be-missed#.xj2bMKD80

i've also only been reading for school:o(

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

i would like to read more fiction

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Sometimes you have to look reality in the face and say 'No!'
-Ben (Reaper)

If you need any help, don't. Hesitate to ask.

It's a good start to contemporary black authors but some of them--ZZ Packer, Paul Beatty--haven't released a book in years.

Was pleased to see Tayari Jones on it, though.

Surprised (but also pleased) that Rebecca Walker wasn't on the list. She always makes lists like these.

Interesting that the writer of the article is (who I presume to be) a white male.

*Paul Beatty has a new book this yeah. Hallelu.

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>Surprised (but also pleased) that Rebecca Walker wasn't on the
>list. She always makes lists like these.

me too!

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>*Paul Beatty has a new book this yeah. Hallelu.

need to check this out.

whom do you feel is missing from the list?

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

would fare on here.

I love me a good book club and I already spend so much time on this damn site. I might as well use my time constructively.

Do you think that's doable? Like a dedicated book every two months and whomever wants to discuss it can. In person is preferable of course, but...

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person this could also go on the almost dead organix board


>Do you think that's doable? Like a dedicated book every two
>months and whomever wants to discuss it can. In person is
>preferable of course, but...
>

and two months is very doable.

im in

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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

the focus was on classics hence the 12 classics in 2012 tag. as long as people respond it moves along. i think we fell apart towards the end, but we made it through six books at least. now that i look at the list below, we also read Go Tell It On The Mountain, but i cant seem to find the discussion thread, which is a shame, because that was an interesting one to me. there might have been more but three years later, i can't remember. but if someone started another book club that would be great because i havent been reading for shit lately.

as i lay dying/the left hand of darkness
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=608892&mesg_id=608892&listing_type=search

things fall apart
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=604682&mesg_id=604682&listing_type=search

to kill a mockingbird
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=601244&mesg_id=601244&listing_type=search

catcher in the rye
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=597778&mesg_id=597778&listing_type=search

the great gatsby
http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=6&topic_id=593519&mesg_id=593519&listing_type=search

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Kiese Laymon's Long Division, 2013
-i'm willing to fight some one who disagrees.

others i've read recently:

Going to Meet the Man, 1965 (collection of 8 shorts) - Baldwin 5/5
-it has three shorts stories in it that are better than most authors whole career collection of works

You Are Not a Gadget, 2011 - Jaron Lanier 4.5/5
-accessible, but at times very dense theory on the web, virtual technologies, and the future

The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2006 - Sherman Alexie 4/5
-great YA novel, even though the end left kind of a bad taste in my literary mouth

The Wonder Boys, 1992 - Michael Chabon 3.5/5
-good novel. fun, funny, full of great lines

Highwire Moon, 2002 - Susan Straight 2.5/5
-started very well, then went to shit, and ended aight. She overuses metaphor and punked out on the ending

currently reading Carver's collection Will You Please Be Quiet Please, 1976 and Richard Price's Lush Life, 2008

wish i had more time for fiction. i've recently snuck the following in:

hilton als - white girls
toni morrison - sula
edwidge danticat - krik krak
kiese laymon - how to slowly kill yourself and others in america

currently reading:
earl lovelace - is just a movie