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<title>No More Book Club</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sigh.&lt;/i&gt; I did not like doing this. I have decided to leave the &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/BookClub"&gt;BookClub&lt;/a&gt; I&amp;#x2019;ve been a part of for so long. I took it over from Geetha years ago. The books picked were a challenge to my own reading habits. I like to read Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the occasional non-fiction book, mostly history. But as the months went by, I read less and less books, and the less books I read the more odious it seemed to be reading a book I didn&amp;#x2019;t want to read in the first place. I bought several books for the book club and ended up not reading them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m still reading a lot &amp;#x2013; but it&amp;#x2019;s mostly Old School RPG blogs. I&amp;#x2019;m subscribed to &lt;strong&gt;287&lt;/strong&gt; blogs via Google Reader!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in the mean time, I still find the occasional recommendation online &amp;#x2013; intriguing books, interesting subjects, and there&amp;#x2019;s my &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://paizo.com/store/paizo/planetStories"&gt;Planet Stories&lt;/a&gt; subscription to consider.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so I sent out a mail to the people who&amp;#x2019;ve been part of the book club for the longest time, and told that I was quitting. Now I&amp;#x2019;m sad. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/cry.png" alt=":'(" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x2019;s to readers everywhere, whatever the medium, whatever the interest: Enjoy! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Life"&gt;Life&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Life"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=BookClub"&gt;BookClub&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/BookClub"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:30:55 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>American Gods</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I suggested &lt;a class="book" href="http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=American+Gods+Neil+Gaiman"&gt;&lt;cite&gt;American Gods&lt;/cite&gt; by &lt;cite&gt;Neil Gaiman&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to the English bookclub a while back &lt;a class="local number" title="2008-05 Book Club" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-05_Book_Club"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and I&amp;#x2019;m reading it right now. Unfortunately I have a German translation because the German publisher did not translate the title. I visited Amazon Germany, searched for American Gods, and ordered a cheap copy. And it turns out it was German. Oh well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m nearly through, and I&amp;#x2019;m not too enthusiastic about it. Somehow there&amp;#x2019;s just not enough going on in the book. Hanging from a tree and references to old mythology can be great. Just look at &lt;a class="near" title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fionavar%20Tapestry"&gt;The Fionavar Tapestry&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.brightweavings.com/books/fionavar.htm"&gt;Guy Gavriel Kay&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;#x2019;ll finish the book now that I&amp;#x2019;ve nearly made it. But I don&amp;#x2019;t think I can recommend it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=Books"&gt;Books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=browse;tag=1;id=BookClub"&gt;BookClub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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