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I’d agree that the BOTM threads can be hit and miss; sometimes there is little interest, and sometimes something unexpected happens and it gives birth to the various Nabakov threads. But what happens in each case is an organic thing, and thinking about it more, I'm not sure if going beyond a...

One of the main benefits of the challenge would be that you find authors you wouldn't normally have read that you want to explore further. Any like that jumped out at you so far?

We're expecting a full report on your olympic challenge you know!

Personally I think it’s more a case that there are too many books rather than too many posters. I’ve stated a number of times that I find the range of books discussed here, or any other on-line book forum for that matter, to be fairly narrow and unadventurous; basically limited to the more...

...this is an interesting interpretation of "On the Origin of the Species", I'll run it past my scientific advisor and see what he makes of it... ...yeah, pretty much my reaction too... btw, anyone else think this look a bit like Peder?

Well said Poppy1; this is one of the aspects of the forum that has made me a more and more infrequent visitor. There seems to be a lot of looking down the nose at the OP going on in this thread, and based on what? So far all we can tell about this poster from their two messages is that they...

Try 'True Grit' by Charles Portis, you may have seen the film. The narrator of the story is the same age as yourself, and the book itself is very well written, but easy to read and with a story that pulls you in. Good luck finding something you like. K-S

...I was right, this is an interesting and important thread...

…you think that owning a dog makes you incontinent? Do you have any empirical evidence to back this claim up?...

...I don't have a dog, but I do have two toilets. Somewhere along the line I seem to have got things terribly wrong... ...I doubt there are any major differences between the two...although not having a dog I could be wrong...

"If you must write prose and poems the words you use should be your own don't plagiarise or take "on loans"" - Cemetery Gates

...I dislike poor quality translations of plays by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, but somehow that thought seems out of place with the posts that have gone before... ...anyway, this is an interesting and important thread, I would like to see it developed further... edit: oh, I also hate...

...I'm the one in the hat...

...thanks for that denny...I always had the impression that the OU could be ideal for the internet era...but how do you get to see the TV programmes in America?, is there a channel that shows them over there?...I know we have the jokey image of the old b/w OU programmes about maths etc, but the...

...it's The Passion Of St Tibulus all over again :-(...

I did a work related 60 point course with them in 1998. At that point they had a fairly well established 'Electronic Campus', which was basically a well organised message board with forums on each course and indeed each chapter of work within each course, moded by the tutors themselves. They had...

...peel yourself of the cross Sitaram...if I added the dreaded ;) ;) ;) to the end of "Other people can wade in on this if they want...Sitaram seems determined to take me further and further out to sea until I'm out of my depth!...thinking about it, that's probably already happened!..." would it...

...and to come back to an earlier point, perhaps also please his sponsor... ...all this may suggest a more pure path, one where the author is free to write only what he wishes, but this is also not totally desirable...as for every 'Ulysses’ there must be thousands of books that are...

…but have we found the beginning?...perhaps we should say that leisure is a prerequisite to the formal or organised development of philosophy…as surely a peasant sheep herder from anytime in history has had opportunity to ponder the meaning of it all?...and I would also think that leisure...

...yes, the difference between wanting to write and having to write, and more importantly the desire to write "not out of economic need but out of spiritual need" is one I've seen expressed by a number of writers...my memory isn't the best, but I think Hamsun and John Fante (another of my...