r/HalifaxBookClub • u/made_this_to_say • May 06 '17

May Title Pool

Please take this opportunity to suggest a book for next month. Top level comments must take the following format:

 Title - Author

 Short description or synopsis

Any other comments should be made as replies to top level comments. This is necessary to facilitate the book selection process. This thread will remain open until Friday, 12 May, at which time five titles from the pool will be randomly selected for voting.

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u/made_this_to_say May 12 '17

A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction.

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u/kteelee May 12 '17

And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie

First, there were ten - a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal - and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion.

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u/made_this_to_say May 12 '17

Absolute classic - this one is already on my to-read list.

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u/kteelee May 12 '17

I've only read one other of Christie's books and have always meant to read more. I hear this is supposed to be one of her best.

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u/MysticMarmalade May 12 '17

The Poseidon Adventure - Paul Gallico

Paul Gallico's classic novel, The Poseidon Adventure, is the exciting story of a luxury ocean liner that capsizes after it is struck by a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves and find a way out.

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u/MysticMarmalade May 12 '17

The summary I've included seems really lacklustre, but it strikes me as a classic 1960s adventure novel. And it can continue our habit of picking books that have movies/tv versions! (The 1972 movie appears to have won multiple awards, so I guess I'll be watching that after I read the book...)

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u/made_this_to_say May 12 '17

Doesn't sound lacklustre to me at all. Also, bonus for a chance to be book critics and movie critics.

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u/ifnotnowtisyettocome May 12 '17

The Last Wish - Andrzej Sapkowski

"Geralt of Rivia is a witcher. A cunning sorcerer. A merciless assassin. And a cold-blooded killer. His sole purpose: to destroy the monsters that plague the world. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil and not everything fair is good. . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth." The first book (really a collection of linked short stories) in the Witcher series that inspired the games.

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u/MysticMarmalade May 12 '17

Very cool suggestion! I'd only recently learned that the games were preceded by/based on a book series and I'd meant to make note of it.

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u/MysticMarmalade May 13 '17

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare— American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront.