A Question...

[Lieutenant Kije]

Actually two:

1. So what is "Evil Storytime"?

and

2. when can we have it(!)?

[Spriggan]

Evil storytime was EUOL's and Fells Idea of haveing Book reviews/discusions.  Never paned out.

[Fellfrosch]

The primary reasons it didn't work in case you're interested, are these:

1) the first book we read was really, really stupid. I could barely bring myself to pick it up, let alone read it.
2) EUOL and I read at very different speeds. It wasn't very practical to do it the way we had planned to.

That said, it's still an option we'd like to keep open, assuming we can find a good book and the time/desire to read it.

[Lieutenant Kije]

I'm sure one of the warped minds around here could come up with something more interesting that might work...I mean, "Evil Storytime."  It just oozes potential.

Maybe it could be a thread where anyone who wants to writes a one or two paragraph story (like those ones on the old AORP board) but the ending has to be eeeevil.  Or whatever...I was just curious.

[Entsuropi]

We could run a Call of Cthulhu, Little Fears or hell/dark orientated Nobilis game and call it "Evil Storytime". A Mage or Changling game that focuses on the Entropic (My kind of people ) enemies found in those games would work as well.

[EUOL]

I still wish we could do Evil Storytime.  I thought it was a good idea.  Unfortunately, Fell is a very, very busy little boy.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

We could do it with short stories, and have the discussion on the msg board.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Oooh, count me in. I need a reason to read good lit (or bad, whatever) again. Something about working 40 hours a week instead of going to school zones me into video games and TV instead of reading. Mostly because I'm not getting graded on it, I guess.

[Fellfrosch]

The concept was not to read evil stories, but to read them in an evil manner (because it was EUOL and I overseeing the reading). If we start it up again, I think short stories could be good...except that I'm not very interested in them. It would be much easier to organize, but much more boring for me.

If we want to structure Evil Storytime the way that your lives should already be structured (i.e., around me), then we could start by reading Bernard Cornwell's Arthur trilogy. That's what I'm reading anyway, and it's very good, and has a very quirky take on the legend, and a forum discussion could be very interesting.

[Entsuropi]

As i sit at my parents computer, the entire cornwell arthur trilogy sits 2 feet behind and 1 to the left of me. So you could count me in.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Ok, I'm in. I'll see if the library finds a copy. When do we have book 1 read by?

[Fellfrosch]

I borrowed the trilogy from someone who's moving to Arizona at the end of the summer, so I wanted to finish it by then, but I'm starting to doubt that I can. Let me go home and look at the book and I'll post a tentative schedule tonight.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Count me in as well. I'll have some downtime next week since I'll be in CA with nothing else to do but stress out about wedding plans. The distraction will be good. And hopefully I can get far enough ahead so as not to be behind when I get back.

[Mistress of Darkness]

For any who might be wondering the Warlord Chronicles (Cornwell's Arthur trilogy) titles are as follows:

1: The Winter King
2: Enemy of God
3: Excalibur

[Fellfrosch]

Each book is a little under 500 pages (at least in the edition I have) and it looks like each one has 5 sub-books in it. What would you say if we read one sub-book per week?