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FROM: Bibliophile <[removed]@MyVine.com>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 10:39 AM

Anyone know of book club discussion questions for The Beach House by James
Patterson and Peter De Jonge? It's our book club selection for February,
and so far, no questions.

The problem with running a fiction book club where members pick what they
like to read is that a lot of choices, although good reads, aren't taken
seriously enough by the literary world to generate any discussion questions.
This makes three months in a row of the same dilemma. My group doesn't
seem to lack fuel for conversation, but all the same, it'd be nice to have a
little framework for our discussion.

Just venting, thanks for listening. We don't really want to change the
format of our group, and we like the mix we've read so far. I'd just love to
see more "popular" fiction book club materials.
--
Deborah Roy
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

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FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 10:49 AM

What I have done with books of this type is to have some generic questions
that I throw out to start a discussion actually pertaining to the book. Our
group also has no trouble finding things to talk about, but whether or not
it's book related is a separate issue (LOL).
1. Have you read other books in this series?
2. How does this one measure up?
3. What is it that you like about this author/his books? Be specific:
dialogue; sense of place; character development?
4. Do you think of this as literature or escape reading? Defend your answer
(as they say in Philosophy 101).
ETC.

HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:21 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: questions - Patterson/DeJonge's Beach House

Anyone know of book club discussion questions for The Beach House by James
Patterson and Peter De Jonge? It's our book club selection for February,
and so far, no questions.

The problem with running a fiction book club where members pick what they
like to read is that a lot of choices, although good reads, aren't taken
seriously enough by the literary world to generate any discussion questions.
This makes three months in a row of the same dilemma. My group doesn't
seem to lack fuel for conversation, but all the same, it'd be nice to have a
little framework for our discussion.

Just venting, thanks for listening. We don't really want to change the
format of our group, and we like the mix we've read so far. I'd just love to
see more "popular" fiction book club materials.
--
Deborah Roy
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

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FROM: "Steven A. Roman" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 10:49 AM

After earning an MA in English and escaping once more the ivory dungeons of
academia, I decided to begin a book club with my friends. We read a lot of
good books that were *not* considered "literary," due to their designation
as genre fiction. The ghettoization of a lot of good fiction meant that
there was little outside material available to lend structure to our
discussions. Ultimately, we realized that we'd simply have to write our own
discussion questions; we'd take the works seriously, even if others
wouldn't.

Hmmm ... I wonder if we could start a popular fiction discussion questions
database through fiction L ...

Steven Roman
Addison Public Library
Addison, IL

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:21 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: questions - Patterson/DeJonge's Beach House

Anyone know of book club discussion questions for The Beach House by James
Patterson and Peter De Jonge? It's our book club selection for February,
and so far, no questions.

The problem with running a fiction book club where members pick what they
like to read is that a lot of choices, although good reads, aren't taken
seriously enough by the literary world to generate any discussion questions.
This makes three months in a row of the same dilemma. My group doesn't
seem to lack fuel for conversation, but all the same, it'd be nice to have a
little framework for our discussion.

Just venting, thanks for listening. We don't really want to change the
format of our group, and we like the mix we've read so far. I'd just love to
see more "popular" fiction book club materials.
--
Deborah Roy
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

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FROM: "Denese Young" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 1/17/03, 3:59 PM

"Anyone know of book club discussion questions for The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter De Jonge? It's our book club selection for February, and so far, no questions..."

you could always bring up patterson's method of writing: he comes up with the idea and farms off the actual writing to a lesser-known author. the november 4, 2002 issue of publishers weekly discusses this in depth. i can think of a lot of things to discuss about that.


--
Denese Young
Florissant Valley Branch
St. Louis County Library
``Ozzy Osbourne used to snort ants. Led Zeppelin had sex with
hookers on private planes. And I start a book club. Because
one can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before
one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a book.''--Moby

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FROM: "C. L. Quillen" <[removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 1/20/03, 9:22 AM

One place you might want to look for discussion questions is the
literary guild (groups.literaryguild.com). I've been writing some
book discussion guides for them and a lot of the books are not
literary. For instance, I just finished one for "Gone for Good"
by Harlan Coben. An excellent book, but not a literary one.

Another place to check is the author's own website. Susan Wittig
Albert has discussion questions for her China Bayles mysteries
and I recently saw a romance author's site that had discussion
questions for some of her books (can't remember who it was now
though).

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Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:21 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: questions - Patterson/DeJonge's Beach House

Anyone know of book club discussion questions for The Beach House
by James
Patterson and Peter De Jonge? It's our book club selection for
February,
and so far, no questions.

The problem with running a fiction book club where members pick
what they
like to read is that a lot of choices, although good reads,
aren't taken
seriously enough by the literary world to generate any discussion
questions.
This makes three months in a row of the same dilemma. My group
doesn't
seem to lack fuel for conversation, but all the same, it'd be
nice to have a
little framework for our discussion.

Just venting, thanks for listening. We don't really want to
change the
format of our group, and we like the mix we've read so far. I'd
just love to
see more "popular" fiction book club materials.
--
Deborah Roy
Huntington City-Township Public Library
Huntington, Indiana

____________________________________________________
myVine.com - Unlimited Internet as low as $200/yr
www.myVine.com

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