I'm wondering if a few of you would be interested in doing a forum book discussion. My thought is to first find out if there's an interest. Then we could select a book (via another thread) and give people some time to read it. Then we could discuss the selected book on a third thread.

Any takers?

Sure, I'm up for it.

Well most of my current reading list is of a technical bent, but I am open to suggestions. And discussion would be fun. It has been over 20 years since I last participated in a book club discussion:p

Aaron:)

I am interested as I have only been reading textbooks for 6 years. :(

I'm interested.

I'd be interested; what books did you have in mind? Would they be strictly car-free/bicycle-related, or would the book-discussion forum wander into peak oil, sustainability, global warming, etc?

I'd be interested; what books did you have in mind? Would they be strictly car-free/bicycle-related, or would the book-discussion forum wander into peak oil, sustainability, global warming, etc?
My idea is to wait a day or two to see if there's enough interest. If so, I'll start another thread for nominations of books. Hopefully we'll be able to come to a consensus pretty quickly about the book. So start thinking about the book you'd like to discuss!

I am in

If the book selection interests me. How about limiting it to fiction or travel since I and some others seem to mostly read technical stuff, it would be a break from science and math and computers.

possibly

Might be interested, but for me the book selection would probably need to have a carfree slant. I'm really into books that are inspirational and about social change.

For example, reading the excerpt from Lee Iacocca's Where have all the leaders gone? (http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=wherehavealltheleadersgone) always psych's me up. I'd definitely be into reading this book!

Off the top of my head, other things I have interest in:
Thoreau's Walden or Civil Disobedience
Martin Luther King
Gandhi
John Muir
Simple Living
Buddhism

Anything about: grassroots, positive change, leadership, community, activism

It would be fun to read fiction, but for me I think it would be really cool for this group to get involved and read something for positive change.

I'll give it a shot

I'm in. There's a really good piece of fiction I'd recommend. It's 16,000 Suspects: A RAGBRAI Murder Mystery, by 9 Iowan Authors. It's not that deep, but being a writer myself, it's interesting to see how 9 different writers can each write a chapter and pull it off. Let me know what you all think!

In. Suggestion: what about that Jared Diamond book you mentioned in another thread? Collapse?

I think there's plenty of interest to warrant trying this thing. Let's close this thread down and move the discussion on nominations of books to another thread that I just started, If you already made a suggestion (like cranky, skinnytirebiker and gerv), please copy it to the new thread.

And away we go!