Hello!
I lead a book club and I need something to spark discussion.
Our members are all male, childhood friends mostly, so we all have relatively similar worldviews which can lead to "echo-chamberish" discussion. We have read, Cinema Speculation, Kitchen Confidential, Project Hail Mary, and most recently Into Thin Air.
Our best discussion came from Into Thin Air after a wide variety of reception to the story.
Our members are "manly men" for the most part and many of them are beginner level readers, (I started the club to get my friends to read more if at all) so something engaging but potentially divisive is what I am looking for.
400 pages is kind of our attention span limiting factor but you never know 🙂
Please help.
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
h{{A Brothers Price by Wen Spencer}}.
Fun easy read, should start some good discussions amount manly men.
How about Giovanni’s Room? Short, beautifully but accessibly written, potential for divisiveness in people’s reactions
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It invites big topics like religion, authority, censorship, good vs evil without getting preachy. And most importantly it’s hilarious.
Just going off books my dad reads and seem manly enough I would suggest…Dungeon crawler carl, Levithan Wakes, We are Legion, Orphan X, Sphere, Jurassic Park, maybe throw in some Da Vinci Code and The Stand
Lone Survivor is a page turner that could spark discussion.
I’m in the exact same kind of book club as you. My suggestions for your next two books. Lonesome Dove, an all time western and a book that is constantly recommended on Reddit for a reason. The other is Under the Banner of Heaven. It’s also a Krakaur book and has by far been the most discussed book we’ve ever had. We still bring it up nearly every book club years later.
Max Tegmark’s speculative non-fiction ***Life 3.0*** presents the spectrum of futures mankind faces due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. He’s a physics professor and leans heavily into how it could occur. However, he’s also wordy.
Written in 2017, today many of the things he posits are rapidly becoming reality.