The Second Apocalypse is a projected nine-book series comprised of three separate-but-connected trilogies by R. Scott Bakker. The first of those trilogies is The Prince of Nothing, which opens with the first book in our book club, The Darkness that Comes Before.
For our first installment of this club we’ll start a bit on the slow side. By next Monday let’s read the prologue, and chapters one and two. Depending on how this goes we may pick up the pace going forward. But I want to start slow and ease our way into Bakker’s world, which is rich with history with a cast of characters both past and present at once fascinating and daunting.
Besides, some of us are trying to write a novel, so November may be a bit slow reading-wise.
Sound good? Any show of hands of who might be joining us?
I’ve been looking for an excuse to read this, it’s been sitting unread for a while, and I haven’t read anything fantasy-ish since I finished DwD. So I’m in.
Great! Welcome aboard…
Sounds like a good time to me.
Yep, it should be fun.
I was intrigued by the idea of the book club originally but was afraid that given my other book-group reading (1Q84, Infinite Jest) that I wouldn’t be able to keep up. Count me in.
That’s excellent. Glad to have you on board.
Count me in, I started reading this series over a year or so ago and I’ve been disappointed that it seems so few other people are into it. Now there’s a book club!
I’ve been disappointed so few are into it as well – which is a large part of the reason for having this book club.
OK, I’m in. I just downloaded the book to my Kindle.
I think the first three are available via Kindle, but not the fourth or fifth. Hopefully that changes soon.
Needless to say, I suspect, but I’m in. As we get going, I’ll even write some posts for the group.
Damn skippy. That’s what we’re paying you for. (Uh, in admiration or something…)
P.S. My latest post is relevant to this book club.
“While the Christianity is very present in these books, I don’t think you’ll find anything very Christian about them. ”
Now that is some serious understatement.
Bakker is to Tolkien as Nietzsche is to Plato.
BTW, what exactly do we do as part of this club? Will there be a special URL to visit as we explore each section of the book or will the posts be intermingled with other ordinary-gentlemen posts?
I expect that I will write a weekly discussion post as we go, possibly more, and that Ryan and any other writers and guest posters who want to chime in will do so as we go along.
Good, because I can’t do a lot of meetings.