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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 10:16 |
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Coltrane did a recent post about reading...and the idea that maybe we do not read enough...
Anyone down for having a blacknet book club...have a featured book each month and get online and talk about it?Last edited on Wednesday October 6th, 2004 14:19 by free
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 12:00 |
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purrfect idea  .
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 13:02 |
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 13:36 |
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@free
I have just bought Mary Monroe "God dont like Ugly" and the second series "God Still Dont Like Ugly" (It aint religious folks) It is a best seller worldwide
what do you think?
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shall we do different catogries of Fiction, detective etc just to make it easy to control.
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 13:50 |
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@Soofresh...
I dunno, I think we should do one book of any genre each month...that way we get a broad cross section...and maybe people might learn more about a genre that they would not normally read...
God, dont like uglysounds interesting what is it about?
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 13:56 |
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@free
I have not read it yet? but my friend recommended it?
The first book took me 4 weeks to hunt down!
The fact that it sold out , shows it is a good book.
But, you have to have both volumes to get a feel of the full story.
Otherwise why dont you choose a book, I have over 260 books dating from my first one which was "Yush, Excess and Yardie" 1996 collectors items they are LOL
Just tell me which book and I will go and get it.
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 14:05 |
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@Soosfresh...
Hunting down a book that both the guys and girls can relate to reading...
I am having a look on amazon now...
...see if there is something worth reading that everyone is down with...
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 14:08 |
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sooofresh jumps in excitment
choose "God dont like ugly, God dont like ugly"
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 14:18 |
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I am going to put forward 4 possible book titles to kick us off...
The Wretched of the Earth
Franz Fanon, foreword by Jean Paul Sarte
The Isis papers: The keys to the colours
Dr Frances Cress Welsing
Destruction of Black Civilisation: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC - 2000 AD
God don't like Ugly
Mary Munroe
If anyone has a better suggestion or idea...
Please feel free to add...
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 14:21 |
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If interested please look at the post titled inspired by Coltrane...
Mods: if you can merge older thread with this one as the original title is misleading...
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 15:44 |
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Posted: Wednesday October 6th, 2004 21:37 |
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 01:03 |
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Im reading the secret life of Ghengis Khan right now but too many textbooks and work manuals taking up my time so it will be a while before I get in to it.
I also plan to start this next one I have about China during the boxers rebellion when they dashed all the foreigners out...
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 07:21 |
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Free: I think thats an excellent idea....I'm currently reading 'East of Arce Lane' by Alex Wheatle....a fictional account of black life just before the first Brixton Riots in 1981....
Although I've read the Isis papers & Destruction of Civilisation, It would be interesting to reread these books and have a debate on the content and relevance of these works..
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 09:18 |
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I have read "East of Arce Lane"
good book
try "checkers" as well it has the same London underground feel.
@free
since people are in the middle of reading books, we all need to decide on a date and a book , so that we can all start together.
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 09:22 |
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 09:43 |
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thats fine are we going to do a vote on the books
SORRY, BUT CAN MORE MEMBERS TO JOIN PLS!
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 11:25 |
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| I'd like to join too and the 8th of November is a good start date for me. I'd imagine the book title will need to be decided upon at least a couple of weeks in advance to allow everyone sufficient time to get a copy... I have no suggestions to offer I'm afraid... I've not read anything other than text books/journals for ages now... really looking forward to something different though...
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 12:35 |
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These are the book choices for the Blacknet Book Club...
Please vote for the book that you are most interested in reading...
Please hurry as the first book club date is set for Monday 8th November 2004
If you want to know more about the books please do a searh on all these titles on http://www.amazon.co.uk
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 17:07 |
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I am really interested in being a part of this, how do we know when everyone has finished the book? will be be talking about it while we are reading or waiting till we have all finished to start debating/discussing?
so we all start reading the selected book on the 8th of november? Sounds really good, I wouldnt mind reading "god dont like ugly", but ive already voted, the odds dont look too good at the moment.
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 17:58 |
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Free,
I like to read and I'm always glad to see that there people interested in books. After a hectic work schedule, I'm finding a little time doing some reading. A neighbor of mine gave me a book while she was at a Christian conference in Tennessee. The book is called DORIE: The girl that nobody love. Man, I cannot, absolutely cannot believe some of the incredible abuse that this woman have went through from a child until adulthood this lady had to put up with mental, physical, verbal, spiritual abuse from just about everybody in her familial circle and her foster homes. compared to how I'm telling a brief thing about her life, my words are tamed. What this lady have been through is( my god!) downright awful. It's just so freakin incredibly unreal. If you read her book, I promise that you would think the lady is exaggerating. That is how bad her situation was
But at the end, she survives all of this for a reason: There are people out there who needs her. People who need a shoulder to cry on, people who need a buddy who will undestand themand people who can overcome their obstacles no matter what. If you ever read this book, you may say to yourself" Wow, ithought I had some problems?"I also like this book because Dorie is a survivor. through her book she tells me that sometimes we go through trials and tribulations to becomes witnesses for other people, to test /build our faith in god and that we can overcome anything if we put our faith in him( god). Her books make me understand a lot of things about life. I think that my faith in the lord may have went up a notch because of her book.
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 19:15 |
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I am currently reading a book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez called living to tell a tale and I am enjoying it.
I have read the Isis Papers and I remember I read wreched of the earth by Fanon back intime whn I was in chool..it was a real eye opener from the pan africanist with a socialist ideology
I think a book club would be fine but we need some guidelines and how we would get about it..I hope moderators would help us with some guidance.
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 19:33 |
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| Coltrane..We will be happy to help in whatever way we can..but as it was Free's idea naturally we would not want to disenfranchise him and the work he has put into this project thus far...
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 21:53 |
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I can i join!!! sounds exciting. i need to broaden my mind with my books all i read is real crime about serial killers and stuff. No im not psycho but i find them very intresting.
So which book is gonna be the chosen one........................
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 22:44 |
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I merged this topic with your poll, so it doesnt become lost and new people can still vote for the first book of the club.
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Posted: Thursday October 7th, 2004 22:48 |
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Kunjufu wrote: Coltrane..We will be happy to help in whatever way we can..but as it was Free's idea naturally we would not want to disenfranchise him and the work he has put into this project thus far...
 Oh my goodness, from previous posts I totally ASSumed free was female... that's a complement in case anyone's unsure
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