Monday, 15 March 2010

Un:Bound Book Group

This is the Official Launch. Un:Bound has a book group, picking a book to read over a two month period. Geek Monkey, ChooChoo and I are the main core of regular readers and we will let you know each book we pick here so you can join in the discussion on the forum.

To get things moving we have already read the first book The Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse and we are now ready to choose our April/May book.

Each two months we will pick a book, read it in the first month, discuss it and then in the second month we will post the key comments and thoughts here. The forum can contain spoilers.

There are also plenty of opportunities for general book talk so come and get involved.

So here are our brief thoughts on the Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler

All in all the team were surprised that a book with such a silly title wasn't funnier. We didn't warm to the lead character much at all and we thought the assumptions about how humanity in general and especially women would deal with the apocalypse were a bit stupid.
It was quite well written, fairly entertaining, we like the sidekick character but we were bored with all the drinking and puking. There was no conflict in our views on this book. It's perfectly readable but doesn't deliver what it leads you to expect.

We will announce our second book choice soon.

5 comments:

Harry Markov said...

I invite you to announce this on my blog, seriously. You need to shake things up, so come and do a post on TLR as well. :)

Hagelrat said...

You rock, i'll prep it and save it and you can publish it when it doesn't conflict with your programme. Thanks Dahlink.

Harry Markov said...

LOVE! I am shoving you autonomy in your pretty hands. Take it and just post even now!!

K. A. Laity said...

Excellent plan! I hope this goes very well.

Hagelrat said...

Harry. I love ya baby!
Kate - so have you signed up yet?