Sorry, it's actually 2 questions.
2006-07-06 20:04:08 · 7 answers · asked by bigcomputer 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Apart from being a very social way to get together the majority of members find insights into the books they read that they wouldn't have picked up on their own. Imagine reading Gulliver's Travels without any understanding that it was a political sattire.
After a particular book is read the discussions that follow can offer whole new meanings for the people who have read it.
A group of friends and I recently read Bangkok Kiss by David Thompson. I certainly didn't understand the ending. After discussing it with my friends I understood how it was he saw the ghost in the fields. I didn't get it up until then and would have missed the point without the enlightenment of my friends and our discussions.
2006-07-06 20:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by chrchrbrt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am more than happy to read on my own, but having said that, I do believe that it's great to be able to truly discuss a book that has some significance to you. Reading clubs are one way to achieve this, but I sometimes think that they're more like koffee klatches than reading clubs. Any potential gains though, would be differing perspectives on a book and practice (for those who find it difficult) for expressing opinions and backing them up.
2006-07-07 03:49:29 · answer #2 · answered by chipchinka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think some people enjoy getting together and discussing the story. Me, I read too slow, I could never keep up on the chapters enough to join that kind of club. Though I don't feel it would be overly fun anyhow.
2006-07-07 03:08:32 · answer #3 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in two book clubs: one I like because it's interesting to get the perspective of other people--there are lots of us (who don't all come to the same meetings) so lots of different points of view and sometimes added insight. For the other one, the main value to me is that the books are very different to ones I would have chosen on my own, so I get to learn things more from the authors than necessarily the other members. (Half of whom have rarely finished the book.) Plus we go out for dinner together.
2006-07-07 04:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its more a case of finding out other peoples point of view and looking at it from their perspective. Also its a social thing!
2006-07-07 03:08:21 · answer #5 · answered by peta g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are in a reading group you have envy, because they are people who want to be able to write but can't. so they pick a book to pieces.
2006-07-07 03:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by malroymck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm happy reading on my own.....
2006-07-07 03:08:02 · answer #7 · answered by AKRI 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋