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The rules:

1) All standard forum rules apply
2) One book a month
3) Three weeks to read with one week of Discussion
4) After the last week is up we move on to the next book.
5) No spoilers till the discussion week than go nuts.

Book List - Author - (week discussing it)

The King In Yellow - Robert W. Chambers - (January 25-31)
The Terror - Dan Simmons - (February 22 - 28)
The Phoenix and the Sword - Robert Howard - (March 25-31)
Kraken - China Mellville - (April 24-30)
The Sacket Brand - Lious L'Amour - (May 25-31)
The Rattlesnake Season - Larry D. Sweazy - (June 24-30)
I, the Jury - Mickey Spilane - (July 25-31)
The Zombie Room - RD Ronald - (August 25-31)
Redshirts - John Scazi - (September 24-30)
Soon I will Be Invincible - Austin Grossman - (October 25-31)
Emperor Mollusk vesrsus the Sinister Brain - A. Lee Martinez - (November 24-30)

I will let others start the conversation each week so take it away.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7538917.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7538917.page GMT The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
Those stories were focus quite a bit about ex-pat American painters in Paris running into love with the local ladies. Typically some country bumpkin. It make sme wonder about why so many of the stories are romance stories typical of the time, a few macabre stories dealing with insanity and the fantastical, and some more of a war time drama. I guess in 1895 they didn;t have genre conventions yet.

Of all the non-macabre stories I found the "First Shell on The Street" to be the most intersting. I think my interest primarily came from the fact that it was set in the Franco-Prussian war, not a setting or war you hear much about. The description of the Sortie was both anti-climatic and chillingly real. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7540606.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7540606.page GMT The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion It just reads so much as a real experience.
Well, a absinthe fuelled one for the horror ones any way.
I agree with Easy E in that his writing is "chilingly" real. Just the right word i think.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7541126.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7541126.page GMT The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion King In Yellow just sitting there staring at me, but never got to finish it. I have some catching up to do on other things but will have it finished over the weekend. Not really how I wanted to start but It is my fault for setting it off long enough for illness to kick in. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546051.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546051.page GMT Re:The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546227.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546227.page GMT Re:The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
 Ouze wrote:
To be frank, I started reading it shortly after you posted the idea thread and could not get into it. I love the idea of a Dakka book club but this title didn't really grab me.


It is the seminal nature of it, not the fact that it is THE BEST THING EVER WRITTEN, that got it on the list.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546255.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546255.page GMT Re:The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
 Ouze wrote:
To be frank, I started reading it shortly after you posted the idea thread and could not get into it. I love the idea of a Dakka book club but this title didn't really grab me.


That happened to me, too. And next month's doesn't interest me, either.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546386.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546386.page GMT The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
I really liked The Repairer of Reputations and enjoyed In the Court of the Dragon, the rest didn't tickle my fancy.


The Repairer of Reputations was frankly so good that it really made me like the rest of the stuff less because it wasn't as awesome. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546466.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546466.page GMT The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion Like I said some are cool, others not so much]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546988.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7546988.page GMT Re:The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
I will review and comment more (and perhaps amend this post) this weekend.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7547056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7547056.page GMT Re:The King In Yellow - Dakka OT Book Club Discussion
I was googling "yellow king theories", about True Detective and thought the book would be great reference material, as The Yellow King, Carcosa and other things are constantly referenced in that series. None of these short stories really grabbed me. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7547253.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/633011/7547253.page GMT