Hi I’m looking to start up / join a book club with some like minded people. I particularly enjoy science fiction and popular science and my favourite author, in the world, ever, is Kurt Vonnegut.

If you've read 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin I'll join. ;)

Well I think we have our first book.
It looks good. Old school, before real; science got in the way of all those possibilities.
If anyone else wants to join us, you can find a review here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
We'll see if anyone else is interested...

Well I think we have our first book.
It looks good. Old school, before real; science got in the way of all those possibilities.
If anyone else wants to join us, you can find a review here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)
We'll see if anyone else is interested...You missed out a bracket in the link. Fixed link here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel))

It's fair to say that without this book, Orwell would not have written 1984.

I'm so looking forward to reading this book, sounds so good.
That's a bold claim about 1984!
Do you have a copy I can borrow, or shall I buy?

Hmmm... I have a copy, but maybe I should keep hold of it to refresh myself.

Also mine's borrowed from aeons past and I might have to give it back one day. ;)

You might be best off getting your own copy.

I can't beleive there are no other scientist / sci-fi readers out there???

There's a saying that goes:
"never lend a book to a friend, because you'll lose your book and your friend"

I am very choosy in lending books, I don't like parting with them. When I'm not too bothered I prefer to give them away to people or a charity shop.
I had to start doing this (much to my dismay as a book hoarder) when I realized I had over 2000 books at home and most of them are double parked on the shelves. Still suffer when I say goodbye to one, though.
:shakes: :cry:
One of the last books I read was "A suitable boy", 1300 pages and I was upset when I finished because I wanted more of it!

There's a saying that goes:
"never lend a book to a friend, because you'll lose your book and your friend"

I am very choosy in lending books, I don't like parting with them. When I'm not too bothered I prefer to give them away to people or a charity shop.
I had to start doing this (much to my dismay as a book hoarder) when I realized I had over 2000 books at home and most of them are double parked on the shelves. Still suffer when I say goodbye to one, though.
:shakes: :cry:
One of the last books I read was "A suitable boy", 1300 pages and I was upset when I finished because I wanted more of it!

What a shame you feel this way! All the best books I read were lent to me, whether given to me by a friend or picked up at a laundry room in exchange for something I left.
The more I love a book, the more I want to share it and it's ideas.

Given or swapped is not really the same as lent.
I have so much affection towards some of my books that if I lent them and I wouldn't get them back it would be like saying goodbye to my best friend.
I'm happy to give away books I know I won't ever read, buy I don't lend many of them.