Take the fucking ride?

When does it start, where is the queue, let's get on this bitch.

Book Club Convenes

How does October 30th, which is next Tuesday, work to start discussing the book?
I guess we can just do it as a rolling discussion until we're done, and then pick a new novel.


In the meantime, here's an interesting review/criticism from Slate to check out:

http://slate.com/id/2131269/

Game On

Alright, I've got mine ordered and in the mail. So if anyone is around the I.C. area they can borrow it when I'm done. Also, I feel like I'm already abusing this service, Kevin really shouldn't have given me permission. Perhaps a post per day quota should be enforced, these type of things can get out of hand.

-I like attaching pictures

Membership fees

Boy am I excited for this. I have been paying the weekly subscription fee for several months now, but that is cool. Now on to some reading. I looked around and think this is going to be one of those amazon type purchases. I highly recommend the leather bound version
http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen/dp/B000GM6PEC/ref=sr_1_20/104-7153248-9519928?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192025055&sr=8-20

But for most the basic will suffice

http://www.amazon.com/Watchmen-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289234/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-7153248-9519928?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192025072&sr=8-2


-Built in spell check, awesome! Hey I think I'm getting the hang of this.

aquisition

Tell me now, what is the best way to get this book. Will the local Washington Public Library have "The Watchman," or is this an amazon.com type purchase?

Velkommen

Alright, the blog is ready to go. So it took a couple months, no big deal. I think this whole thing might work pretty well. Everyone seemed excited about the idea when I've mentioned it to them, so let's do it.

The Watchmen (See Below) looks like a sweet book. Miss Pins has been recommending it to me for a while and it seems to be on a lot of "important" lists, so I can't wait.

PLUS, it's a big comic book with lots of pictures so I can follow whats happening. I have to take it easy though, otherwise I might revert back to the glory days of Comic World. Dust off the magic cards and 20 sided dice, put on a black t-shirt and a wallet chain, and forsake all feminine attention because we are having a Magic party!! My Black Lotus is gonna own your ass! Woo!

Wow. Looking back, I was lucky I got the hell out of there before I got an earring or a dragon tattooed on my forearm.

Anyway. Couple features I would like to point out: 1. Though some people wouldn't allow me to dedicate this space to him, Brett Favre will still hold a place of honor in this blog. You have obviously noticed the image of the greatest QB-of-all-time above. Brett will be updating his reading corner with tips and profound thoughts as he has time throughout the season. Enjoy them.
2. Since almost all of us are connected through Iowa City, I found some sweet pics of I.C. from way back, and I will be putting them up. The one at the top is campus in 1923.

Danke schön

Starting Point

Join us in welcoming Lucas St. Review into the blogosphere.
She's arriving late, as K1 couldn't settle on a name, and I vetoed Brett Favre's Reading Corner

Our first book choice will be: The Watchmen by Alan Moore.

This is a critically acclaimed graphic novel, born out of a popular comic series. It's the only graphic novel to be listed on TIME magazine's Top 100 novels list. It should be a quick read and give us a good first run on the site. Since we're all book club virgins, Kevin says we should be gentle. We'll save War & Peace for another time

In the meantime, set up an account so you can comment on the site; you should be receiving an email invite with directions, we hope.

How It Will Work
1.) Get The Watchmen
2.) Read it.
3.) We'll start discussing it in a month. If everyone is finished way before that and you are pissed that we haven't started talking about it, email us. We're feeling out the schedule, and we think a book a month is reasonable.
4.) We'll be posting links to relevant articles, so please comment or just enjoy for your reading pleasure.