Social Outcasts' Book Club [September choice is up!]

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We have begun our first reading, Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill, for the month of September.  

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1. Be curteous to others' opinions, that includes discussions, book suggestions, etc.
2. Be literate. This is a club for literature, so showing literacy would only be polite.
3. Have fun!  

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Past Contenders:

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
"The plot of Joe Hill’s first novel can be summarized simply: An aging heavy-metal star buys a haunted suit over the Internet. He thinks it will be perfect for his ghoulish-artifact collection. The suit agrees, but for all the wrong reasons.
The suit has a mind of its own. It has a ghost of its own too. The ghost would rather go marauding through the rock star’s life than be part of his creepy little museum."

Taken from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/books/08masl.html

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
"...It's an important book. Not only does it detail the dangers of totalitarianism, but also raises some really good questions about the nature of the past. Basically, if something happened in the past, and then all documentation was changed so that it appears to have not happened, and then everybody says it never happened, how can you be so sure you really remember it at all?"

Taken from http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37643192

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
"The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity."

Taken from http://www.litlovers.com/guide_grapeswrth.html

Kerosene by Chris Wooding
"Kerosene is about a chronically shy kid named Cal, who only finds relief from his crippling condition by setting things alight. But when he unwittingly crosses two girls at school, they embark on a plan of revenge that ultimately sends him spiralling into pyromania."

Taken from http://www.chriswooding.com/kerosene_book.html

Suggested Books:
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Kerosene by Chris Wooding

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First book, Heart-Shaped Box, chosen on Sunday, August 30, 2009.
First book choice poll posted on Sunday, August 16, 2009.
Club made on Friday, June 26, 2009.  

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For the month of September...

Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
"The plot of Joe Hill’s first novel can be summarized simply: An aging heavy-metal star buys a haunted suit over the Internet. He thinks it will be perfect for his ghoulish-artifact collection. The suit agrees, but for all the wrong reasons.
The suit has a mind of its own. It has a ghost of its own too. The ghost would rather go marauding through the rock star’s life than be part of his creepy little museum."

Taken from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/books/08masl.html

 

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