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briandmyers  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Future of Hubski Book Club(s)

1) I read mostly fiction but up for anything interesting

2) both

3) Seems like "Watchmen" was the most successful discussion; maybe that was due to the excellence of that work, not sure; but I think we should try to learn from our successes as well as the missteps. I'm on book 6 of "Saga of the Swamp Thing", which I believe kb suggested to me in that discussion. It's not quite on a par with "Watchmen", and a fair bit longer, but I think it'd be worth discussing.





user-inactivated  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Saga is amazing. Have you read Y: The Last Man?

briandmyers  ·  4019 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have - the first 3 I think. Not sure but I believe it was someone on hubski that suggested that one, a couple years back? There was a fan video shared too - may have been this one, I can't find the original hubski post

Hubski search turned up nada, but I googled "hubski y the last man" and found mentions here :

http://hubski.com/pub?id=10773

http://hubski.com/pub?id=127341

kleinbl00  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So would you recommend all of Swamp Thing, Book 1 of Swamp Thing or Book 6 of Swamp Thing?

briandmyers  ·  4020 days ago  ·  link  ·  

All, I suppose. I haven't started 6 yet, but book 5 was the best one so far. For the book club I think we'd probably want to do them one-by-one, but even so it's probably too large a work. Book 1 isn't a great choice on its own, because about half of it is Alan Moore tying up plot threads from the prior runs of "Swamp Thing". It's a great read though, highly recommended for those who liked "Watchmen" and/or "Sandman".