Anyone Interested In An Over The Monster Book ... Club?

by Randy Booth on Nov 8, 2009 9:01 PM EST in Book Reviews Comment 13 comments

Books are fun!

A lot of other blogs do this, so I'll throw it out, too: is anyone interested in participating in an Over The Monster book club?

Essentially, we'd all agree on a Red Sox/baseball book and read it. That's the premise. There's a lot of different routes we can go: we can just say, 'hey, finish it in a month' and then I'll make a post and we can talk about it. Or we can do it in shifts, so read the first three chapters and then have a post. There's a lot of ways we can do it. We can even have people participating to write posts that are on the front page that get other discussion started, so it's not just left with me.

For example, a nice comment might be: "The symbolism of Dustin Pedroia's bat is his hatred for being so short." Obviously, that's a winner.

The OTMBC is just a good way to kill the offseason. We might as well educate ourselves while we wait for spring training, right?

There is a poll attached. Please answer it, homies.

Poll

Are you interested in an OTM book club?

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If the book is available at my local library, I’m in.

"Ninety percent [of my salary] I'll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste."
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by BTLove on Nov 8, 2009 9:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Same here.

"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko

by sox-inda-south on Nov 8, 2009 11:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Im definitely in, probably better to do it in parts.

Fehr is fair, but I like Laich

by amkcaps on Nov 8, 2009 9:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

ahh

I actually own Faithful. Thats what happens when you’re a Stephen King fanatic. I would be down, gotta get through the rest of “The Stand” however, amazing novel.

by ritz on Nov 8, 2009 9:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Books are fun!

Faithful, on the other hand…meh.

For some reason, the local library here orders practically every Red Sox book published in the last 4 years. This is in Minnesota, so I can’t explain it. In any case, I shouldn’t have any problems finding the books (if I haven’t read them already.)

by morineko on Nov 8, 2009 10:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I liked Faithful plenty...

I love how it’s basically Stewart O’Nan writing about every single game in depth, and then King sweeps in like a drugged up revolutionary poet acting like the season is a great metaphor for the human experience.

by USG on Nov 8, 2009 10:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd do my best to participate.

But being a college bound high school senior has me financial strapped.

"Hating the New York Yankees is as American as apple pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax." -- Mike Royko

by sox-inda-south on Nov 8, 2009 11:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Go For It

I’d participate. I agree with the library comments, but if the book is a unanimous thumbs up then don’t hesitate to make it happen imo.

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by Rob Luker on Nov 9, 2009 7:36 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'd do it!

I’ve got Moneyball, Juiced, Vindicated, Emperors and Idiots and The Yankee Years sitting around.

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by Rogue Nine on Nov 9, 2009 11:10 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm not a dedicated reader...

…but I also have The Yankee Years sitting around, as well Becoming Manny (which I’m mostly through). I’d be willing to attempt to get involved, although I shouldn’t be counted upon.

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by Bloggy on Nov 9, 2009 12:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I have Faithful and Moneyball.

Also, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. The book where King repeatedly refers to the Sox catcher as “Veritek”

by SBGonzalez on Nov 9, 2009 3:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I am actually reading faithful right now, near the end of it

And i’m in for a red sox book club. Don’t bother me none how we do it.

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by hportallstar on Nov 11, 2009 12:05 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I want to SO BADLY...

I’m not sure if I can, for several reasons. If nothing else, I’ll try to participate as much as possible. I have a recommendation for a book too: The Book. :)

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by bs.uf15bosox9bears23 on Nov 14, 2009 12:54 AM EST reply actions 0 recs