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How many folks here, if the book they wanted to win doesn't win, simply doesn't bother reading the winner? Not like out of spite, or anything - Well, maybe out of spite, I don't know your life, I don't know your choices - but out of a "Pfft, I'm not gonna read something new / spend my time on reading something other people want to read, my free time is too precious!"

Cause that's me, tbh. I'm a slow reader and a classically bad book club participant.

Just putting it out there, something I aught to work on cause if people do that the book club will die off and no-one'll have any motivation to read the books you like and validate your literary opinions.

Edited 2017-06-04 21:48 (UTC)

I mean, I hadn't read any of the other books in the series when they were on book club, so

Oh, I don't just mean this month, and I don't mean to be accusing.

Just thought "Hey, I cant be the only selfish dude here" and if I'm right, it might help people be more motivated. and if I'm wrong, then everyone knows I only participate in the book club to have my choices and tastes validated, and, what, they're gonna think worse of me?

I mean, there are of course good reasons not to participate like yours, but then there are also the lazy self indulgent ones like mine.

Oh, yeah, I see what you mean.

I'll consider reading books that I didn't vote for (and have done in the past) but I only feel obligated for the ones I voted for.

I don't like fantasy. And considering it is a book in a series, I'd have to read all the previous ones to get it.

See above. Not trying to shame anyone for not reading this months. Just a putting out a theory for other months low participation. There are plenty of good reasons not to participate..

I just don't often manage to finish the book by book club time :/ I have so much school-reading, that this often takes second tier, and then I turn around and am like WAIT OOPS.

Oh, shit I know.

I can take a whole month just to get through a book I'm excited about and that grips me. A book I couldn't care less about, there's almost no way to finish it in time.

Still, if I'm honest with myself, I feel I really aught to try. I can still join in with only a 3rd of the book under my belt, I just never do. If soooooooo Lazy.

Sounds like your problem is the opposite. I have almost nothing to do with my spare time and I fill it up with garbage, while you have just too little spare time.

I'm open to reading just about anything, so that's not a problem for me.

My stupid reason for not participating more often is this really weird anxiety I get over official-feeling discussions. I never feel like I have enough to say for it to be worth it, and everything I want to say feels either vapid or pretentious. I know that's not true, but I only have so much energy available for fighting my ridiculous brain.

It probably won't help in your situation, but every input is helpful in the discussions, I think. Even my usually negative complaints tend to inspire further comments, even if no one agrees with me.

I don't get anxious about it, but I feel like I have nothing to say that's worthy of being said too. I feel slightly better about replying to people, but most of the time I end up going 'Yeah, nobody cares about THAT' and leave it.

...It's probably half laziness too, to be honest.

Honestly I love your comments on other stuff in the comm...I think your input in book discussions would be really valuable

Thanks. I appreciate that.

What's June's book? Maybe I'll try to participate this time.

Joust by Mercedes Lackey. :)

If you're up for it we'd love to have you! Don't feel pressured, though.

But seriously, feel pressured. Highly pressured. Like we're gonna off a kitten if you don't contribute level of pressured.

I'm relatively(!) open to not only reading my faves, I've read Night Watch last month after all and others before that, but my personal taste isn't very compatible with our book club, I guess, at least not in the last few months. There are usually at least a handful of books in the nominations I would definitely read to participate, but those weren't very popular in the polls lately.

And I'm s o d a m n t i r e d of dragons, you have no idea.

I do love book club, though, and I will do my best to get a non-fantasy book elected for July.

But I honestly don't understand why all the fantasy and YA fans in the book club don't show up to the discussions. Last time was a nice surprise, but before that it looked pretty grim.

I read the book if it sounds interesting and I can get a copy. Actually participating in the discussion is a separate issue. I may finish the book too far ahead and then forget stuff by the time the post goes up. Or the post goes up a little late and then I'm left out because even weekend posts go up very late where I live. I will still chime in the next morning if it's something I felt strongly about, but there have only been one or two books like that for me. Or three, I guess, because I did chime in the next morning on a book that I started and didn't finish because I really disliked the protagonist. It wasn't to bash, more of an analytical thing, but bashing might have been better tbh because while diet poison is great about replying, no one else bothers to check the posts once they go to bed unless there was overnight wank.

To be fair, I'm only great at replying bc of email notifs lol. I don't think other people are more lazy necessarily.

That is exactly it. It is the same reason we all try to start new discussion threads in replies instead of adding on to an existing one to properly thread discussion. Everyone wants to be the decider and nobody wants to be a contributor. Same reason that someone threw a paddie about getting a different for of voting, and threw another paddie when that new voting didn't produce their book as a winner. If they don't get their way, they pet their lip and do nothing.

I already wrote my answer to the book club thread, and I read the book.

I have actually not seen anyone throw a fit except the anon who claimed every other anon was the same person and then accused that alleged one person of being 'a whiny bitch' multiple times, because that alleged one person wanted to change the voting system and then that alleged one person's book didn't win the poll.

Which was complete bullshit, of course.

I don't know what you mean about the threads???

DA

From the tone of their post, I think the bitchy anon you're talking about is the same one you're replying to.

I don't always have time to read, I don't always have access to the books (like this month, couldn't find a copy), and sometimes I'm not interested in the book.

I try to read most of them if I know I have the time that month.

I skipped this month because I missed the previous discussions on the series.

People have busy lives. I'm not busy but I don't have much energy, or money. If I don't already own the book, or can't get it from the library, I don't attempt it. Sometimes I attempt the book but can't get into it. But I like the book club; it's nice to have something to stretch my reading a bit, and to discuss the selected book with other people and get their insights into it.

Nice to have but you can't be arsed participating. Well if you don't participate then it will become something that is was nice to have had but no longer do.

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