Which book do you want to read?

[Kal M!]

Ok, so I made a little list of books and I want you guys to tell me which one you would want to read for the book club?

Paper Towns -John Green
Spinning Into Butter -Rebecca Gilman
Julius Caesar -Shakespeare
A Prayer For Owen Meany -John Irving

Eh? Eh?


*Perhaps I should give you more info!

'Paper Towns' and 'A Prayer For Owen Meany' are novels; 'Spinning Into Butter' and 'Julius Caesar' are plays. We probably all have at least heard of 'Paper Towns' and 'Julius Caesar', so here is what is written on the back of 'Spinning Into Butter' and 'A Prayer For Owen Meany'.

Spinning Into Butter:
Set on a college campus in Vermont, it is a new play by a major young American playwright that explores the dangers of both racism and political correctness in America today in a manner that is at once profound, disturbing, darkly comic, and deeply cathartic. [the author] challenges out preconceptions about race relations, writing of a liberal dean of a student named Sarah Daniels who investigates the pinning of anonymous, clearly racist letters on the door of one of the college's few African American students. The stunning discovery that there is a virulent racist on campus forces Sarah, along with other faculty members and students, to explore her feelings about racism, leading to surprising discoveries and painful insights that will rivet and provoke the reader as perhaps no play since David Mamet's Oleanna has done. (I read Oleanna by the way. It
was good, but I think 'Spinning Into Butter' is much better!)

A Prayer For Owen Meany:
Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. This is [the author's]most comic novel; yet Owen Meany is [his] most heartbreaking character. *

[Betsy C.]

I cast my vote for "Spinning into Butter."

[Trick]

This is going to sound awful, but can I ask that it not be Paper Towns? Being in the UK, the only way I can get it is by ordering off the internet, and I can't do that because I don't have a credit card. I'd be interested in reading any of the others, though.

[Myles Lewis]

And I think that a lot of people have already read paper towns. Also, having johns insight on what he wanted the book to mean, might make the discussion less about what we took from the book, and more about what john feels the book should make people think.

I wouldn't mind looking into Julius Caesar again. I haven't heard of the other two books.

[Sky Blood]

paper towns, still havnt read it. i blam my parents 'no alowence' rule.
but everyone says its a great book, so... ya

[Noel]

Huh..... uhm
I agree with trick. For any UK Nerdfighters involved in this, it's hard to get the book. We're all most likely going to read Paper Towns at one point or another anyway.
Julius Caesar.

[Jessica L.]

Spinning into Butter, only because it sounds amusing.
I really can't say I know any of these except Paper Towns.

[Kal M!]

I guess I'll humbly my own vote as well!

Spinning Into Butter, because it's much shorter than Owen Meany, that's for sure (which is good, at least for the first book). Also, it takes a popular topic and does something different with it and I think we'll have a lot to talk about!

[Kal M!]

Owen Meany and Spinning Into Butter would be my top two picks which is why I compared just those two instead of all four.

[Jessica L.]

Ooh! Thank you for the info.
Definitely Spinning into Butter. Maybe 'A Prayer' later though?

[Sarah Beth]

My vote goes to A prayer for Owen Meany. Sounds interesting.

[Amy Leona]

Spinning Into Butter of A Prayer For Owen Meany

I've already read Paper Towns--and it will be hard for some people to get a copy--and Julius Caeser was eh (like, it's Shakespeare and therefore amazing, but still kinda eh, if that makes any sense).

[Erie]

My vote goes to "Spinning Into Butter", as it's the only one I haven't read, but I sort of want to vote for Owen Meany as well, as I love that book terribly. <3