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Hi, all:

This is a great site, and kind of you to provide the space.

Thinking more about it, perhaps the one book a month is best. I originally proposed two per month, due to their short length, but from other posts and thinking about the way life runs us all over sometimes, maybe once a month is the way to go.

Only question should be read them in order or by some other criteria (like a certain year or author)?

Thoughts?

Thomas

What ever works for the rest, will work for me.

One a month is plenty. The reasons being (A) too much of any pulp hero at one time can sour the experience (B) the group should have time to discuss things other than "this week's book". I don't think we want to see such a flood of book reviews that there isn't room or time to reflect on other Savage topics. (C) I've got a busy life. Reading 3 books a month might not be out of the question, but typeing up long thoughtful reviews, and responses can be very time consuming. (D) a month per book will give everyone the time to thoroughly discuss it. Especially for people who participate infrequently, like on weekends. (E) I don't want my mailbox flooded, and I don't want to switch to digest mode ;-)

I think most of the people whove read the Series read them in the "Bantam" order, or in the "Order that I found and bought them". The comment I hear most is "I'd like to read them in the published order" and this would be an excuse for me to do that as well.

I'm not really interested in reading subsets. If this goes on long enough, we can do that when we get back to 'rereading' the series ;-)

I prefer to have an e-mail list. Boards on the web tend to be slow, and I also rarely surf . Only when I have time on my hands. The e-mail system ensures I get everything when it's still fresh and I usually have more time to look and read everything.

I vote for one per month.

I would prefer original pulp order with Bantam order my second choice. I am currently reading the series in original order and just finished Fortress of Solitude. I'd rather not jump around, at least to stories I haven't read yet.
Tom

i also vote for one book a month. that gives me time to read new books as well as the books for the discussion.

email is also better for me, since it comes into my inbox at work, i read them as they come in...

pulp order sounds great, especially for the first time around. if we find that we want to read them faster, or want more books a month, we can move onto other things.

dani

I'm reading them in published order also. However, the more I think about it the more I believe that is as artifical as Bantam order.

What about reading them in order written? We could see the changes in Doc and the crew as Lester Dent developed his approach to the series.

I also think one a month would be best. We could start each one on the 15th (in honor of original publication date) and commence discussion on the 1st. Discussion could continue even after we started reading the next book on the list.

Catherine just asked a couple of questions I'll answer here.

I'll make individual space for discussion of each book. The discussion of book two won't force out discussion of book one, and so on.

If discussion starts on the 1st it wouldn't end on the 15th when the next book starts. It could continue as long as people want to discuss the novel.

Another possibility: Based on Duane's suggestion...would anyone be interested one month reading any of the novels by a particular ghost writer.For example, one month we'd read any of Bogart's books.

I vote for one book per month, either in pulp published order or submitted/written order. I also vote for the email list.

Hi all-
Looking forward to this discussion group and the chance to talk with others about the series- Moving on to the questions...

A- Once a month is fine with me, although I hope we realize how long it will take us to read the whole series- Fifteen years from now we will finish up- Talk about growing old together!! I'd vote for two a month personally-

B. The fifteenth is a good time to start, and fine- I would prefer original pulp order, and actually would be interested in submitted order- That would make it closer to some sort of chronolgical order-

C. Not interested in doing the sub set- Maybe down the line if we get bored reading in order-

D. I vote for a email list as well- That way we get each others comments directly sent to us-

Again, I look forward to sharing thoughts with all of you- I've just started reading the series, and am enjoying the experience-

Jack

I agree with the one book a month proposal. I also favor reading the books in chronological order and moving from issue to issue on the 15th of the month. This would allow list members to also comment on events going on in the world during the month the pulp was released and further set the environment.

I vote for one book per month, reading in either pulp or submitted order, and an e-mail group if possible.

James

OK...it looks as though email list it is. I'm out of town today, but will set it up tomorrow night.

Thos of you interested in discussing themes outside of the reading group order please email me directly. I plan to read the newsgroup order and will be doing some "subset" reading for myself.

I recently discovered a number of mid 1940's doc savage books in an old home I purchased. Are they currently being reprinted?
Is there any value in the old originals?
Just curious.

dave