Resources & Literary Links - Last Thursday Book Club

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Last Thursday Book Club

Campusi.com	Our recommendation for comparing books, new and used, as to availability, cost, shipping.
Fetch Book.Info	A second search site for comparing new and used book prices.
Books A Million	For $5 you become a Millionaire Member for a year, which entitles you to an extra 10% discount. Orders over $25 ship free !
Rio Grande Valley Library	Albuquerque's primary on-line catalog to determine availability of books in the system, links to other libraries, and to request library additions. If you are a library member, any book can be requested, held on-line, or sent to your local branch.
	Site allows search for any book, provides Albuquerque store discount. Credit earned from 'selling' books can be applied at Page 1 or Page 1 Too.

LTBC: Top 100 Books	Each of these books has been read (sometimes to completion) by many members of LTBC, and grading (and therefore order) has been determined by the time-proven "control the b-b-b-bastuds dessert portion" methodology.
Modern Library: 100 Best Novels	Also lists the Readers Poll for the 100 best novels in the English language published since 1900, an ill-advised 3-month poll in 1998. But amazing that some excellent novels made both lists!
Pulitizer Prize: Past 80 years	Beautiful site but not a good list: done by years, so you have to wade through all the prizes for Journalism, editorials, lighting ...
Literary Society of San Diego	Eleanor Yang's clever friends and colleagues: some of the more entertaining reviews, and always good reading selections.
The Un-Named Book Club	Ian Golder's well constructed collection of books and reviews, several of which track the LTBC collection.

LTBC: former great quotes & mottos	LTBC: former schedule (CY 2000)
LTBC: best of the best

Please do not confuse our men's club with GK Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday". This is a little too intellectual for our LTBC anyway, so we leave it to Eleanor and Friends of the Literary Society of San Diego (LSSD). Hey, we were raised as engineers, you should be thankful we can read at all!

Please do not confuse our club with The FIRST Thursday Book Club which is operating out of a coffeehouse in the Lowcountry of South Carolina under the auspices of a commercial sponsor, the independent bookstore: All Books & Company. As reported by their secretary, the First Thursday Book Club is

"not located in a high-humidity, insect-infested suburban swamp -- okay, I'll give you high humidity -- but Summerville is located in the pines about twenty miles upcountry from Charleston and is a wonderful place to visit, particularly in the spring when all the azaleas, wisteria and dogwoods are in bloom. It truly is 'Flowertown in the Pines' then, and at the turn of the century was internationally recognized as a health-giving resort. (Charlestonians spent the summers there, giving the town its name.)"

LTBC is by contrast, located in the high desert of New Mexico: ten years in the making, the enduring, the original LAST Thursday Book Club. We read no books before their time.

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