Count of Monte Cristo inspires me!

I’ve recently watched Le Comte de Monte Cristo (the one with Gérard Depardieu) and this has me thinking about revenge. And when I think about something I tend to think about it in the terms of a game. So, here is my preliminary, first draft, of a set of campaign objectives.

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Book Group

jadasc has wisely thrown down the gauntlet for me to follow through with my ideas of a book group. The question is what? And am I organized enough to run a standard book group. It doesn't help that every list of books I come up with has half the books out of print. Which is probably the biggest frustration. If I'm going to do this I want a list of books that will interest me and provoke interesting discussion and I'm having trouble coming up with more than 3.
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