JuneBugJoe
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I saw on another site they are reading and discussing it chapter by chapter in a sub-forum. Someone innocuous should suggest the book club approach here.
Yea im in...
I saw on another site they are reading and discussing it chapter by chapter in a sub-forum. Someone innocuous should suggest the book club approach here.
ok, call it the mad librettist book club, for hypothetical purposes.
Make it a subforum. Only the mod can start a thread, which he does for general discussion, and one for each chapter. After the book is released, announce the reading will begin, and open the first chapter. Poster discipline would dictate how much editorial control is exercised. By filtering out anything off topic, and locking discussion after the chapter is discussed, you leave behind a resource. anything at all could be asked in the general thread. There are many possibilities for structure.
By using an outside, firsthand source, we can do more than just talk about our observations, and we can have some information in common to allow for discussion.
Ok. lets get a thread going. I have the first edition. I will not be able to get the second for a while. I have to order it in English and then wait until it gets here.
ML, you have chapter one. Lets get some people notified first and see who gets what for assignments. OK?
I like CTs idea with the open forum discussion. We can edit out any unwanted posting. Right?
I will post up in the OFC tonight.
V
So the subforum would be called "Teaming with Microbes" and the threads would go "Chapter 1" "Chapter 2" etc...and then the designated reader would post a summary of that chapter and then people could comment?
Am I on the right page here?
how about just a thread for each chapter and then they all get linked in a sticky that can have the general discussion, then people can go to the individual threads for each chapter and for discussion involving those chapters. so theres no need to create a sub forum.
I vote this.
It's my fervent hope that the new edition will cover the really important stuff like when to flush, how to flush, using massive amounts of molasses, etc.
CC
THAT I would definitely pay to read - Jeff L., CT Guy, Microbeman and Whore? Hey! Cervantes.Yes! I don't know how they missed that the first time around. Maybe a knowledgeable fellow in the industry that could be a third co-author....hmm I don't know, how about Jorge Cervantez? He knows how to do all that stuff I think.
THAT I would definitely pay to read - Jeff L., CT Guy, Microbeman and Whore? Hey! Cervantes.
Hopefully they would allow Cervantes extra pages for colored drawings to attract his High Times Magazine devotees.
It could be a real hoot!
CC
Forgive me if I'm making a false assumption, but I think CC was being sarcastic (as was I). Obviously we are not the intended audience. I guess tone is kind of difficult to convey in forum-speak.
The first comment,
"It's my fervent hope that the new edition will cover the really important stuff like when to flush, how to flush, using massive amounts of molasses, etc.
CC,"
sent me into a rushing realm of hilarity, which spurred the facetious remarks thereafter.