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RE my #98: I'm sure checking out the Electric Kool-Aid Test will raise some eyebrows at our sleepy town library.

Boy did it ever. I had to have the book transferred from another county library, and that day I couldn't find my library card so I used my son's. The librarian just called and was a bit perplexed why a kid would want this book so I explained...she is intrigued by this internet "reading club" and asked how I liked it. I told her this is only the second book assigned...she wants me to let her know how it works out, she sounds interested...

I know that some newspapers have Reading Clubs where their readers read the same book at the same time but I'm not sure if it's been done yet (until now) online. The advantage of having an ONLINE Reading Club is that you can post commentaries in real time and there is much more free flowing book discussions. Another advantage is that we can get folks somehow involved in the book to comment. Right now I am trying to get Tom Wolfe and some of the Merry Pranksters from Ken Kesey's bus to post here for the next book discussion.