Upcoming Book Discussion Nights
Tuesday, May 6, 6pm
This creepy and twisted unholy love child of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians comes to us from the appallingly fascinating mind of Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club. Don't read this one alone in at night if you enjoy keeping your wits about you - apparently over 60 people have actually fainted during bookstore readings given by Palahniuk of one of the stories. It takes a true genius to inspire that knd of terror. Come tell us which store scared you the most!
Tuesday, May 13, 6 pm
Preacher tells the story of Jesse Custer, a down-and-out preacher in the small Texas town of Annville. Custer was accidentally possessed by the supernatural creature named 'Genesis' in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.
Genesis, the product of the unauthorized, unnatural coupling of an angel and a demon, is an infant with no sense of individual will. However, as it is composed of both pure goodness and pure evil, it might have enough power to rival that of God himself. In other words, Jesse Custer, bonded to Genesis, may have become the most powerful being in the whole of living existence.
From Wikipedia.
Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins
Tuesday, June 3, 6pm
The novel follows the adventures of John Paul Ziller and his wife Amanda--lovable prophetess and promiscuous earth mother, inarguably the protagonist--who open "Captain Kendrick's Memorial Hot Dog Wildlife Preserve," a combination hot dog stand and zoo along a highway in Skagit County, Washington. Other characters in this rather oddball novel include Mon Cul the baboon; Marx Marvelous, an educated man from the east coast; and L. Westminster "Plucky" Purcell, a former college football star and sometime dope dealer who accidentally infiltrates a group of Catholic monks working as assassins for the Vatican. In so doing Plucky discovers a secret of monumental proportions dating to the very beginning of Christianity.
In this novel, the author uses nonlinear plot progression in the tone of a diary to express his views on religion and other topics. His humorous, scathing and insightful perceptions of those who swirl past the main characters has great comedic value. The book is a cultural icon for the "Children of the Sixties."
From Wikipedia.
Tuesday, June 10, 6 pm
Ramayan 3392 A.D. (formerly called Ramayan Reborn) is a comic book series based upon the Indian epic called Ramayan. It is written by Shamik Dasgupta and the art is by Abhishek Singh, and a brainchild of Deepak Chopra and Shekhar Kapur. It features a re-imagining of the historical classic in a post-apocalyptic future.
The story primarily deals with the last kingdom of humans who are fighting demons (Asuras) to survive. The series' prime protagonist is the human prince Rama who, alongside his brothers, aims to bring down the demon-lord Ravan.
From Wikipedia
Tuesday, July 1, 6pm
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Price's story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters – Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May.
The Poisonwood Bible was selected for Oprah's Book Club in 1999.
From Wikipedia
Tuesday, July 8, 6pm
The story falls outside of DC's continuity; it is a study in justice and government. It is set in a time when Superman, Wonder Woman and their contemporaries have been gone for over 10 years, leaving a new generation of metahumans to govern the humans.
Many questions and conflicts are brought to the forefront upon their return.
