And, as promised, are are links to Saga Volume 4 and Volume 5.

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

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The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1: July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2: July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3: July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4: July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5: August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6 (this podcast): August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast

Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published!

Subscribe with iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App
Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1: July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2: July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3: July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4: July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5 (this podcast): August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6: August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast

Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published!

Subscribe with iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App
Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1: July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2: July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3: July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4 (this podcast): July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5: August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6: August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast

Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published!

Subscribe with iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App
Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1: July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2: July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3 (this podcast): July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4: July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5: August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6: August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast

Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published!

Subscribe with iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App
Subscribe with RSS

Possible Episode Titles

• A Pair of Tincans
• I’ll Say It Again…It’s a Robot. Taking a Dump.
• Screens Within Screens
• It’s Like How You Can’t Tickle Yourself
• ” Sometimes You Can’t Go Into the Cool Brothel Because you’re a Cat”
• This Might Not Be the Hill I Want to Die On
• Unless Lying Cat is into human misery and suffering
• When You Have a Hammer Everything Looks Like a Pimp’s Head to Smash In
• You Don’t Drive an Automated Shuttle to the Baggage Claim, You Ride It

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1: July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2 (this podcast): July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3: July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4: July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5: August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6: August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Saga Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to the Book Club Podcast

Get new episodes of the Book Club Podcast automatically when they are published!

Subscribe with iTunes or the Apple Podcasts App
Subscribe with RSS

Possible Episode Titles

We don’t pick titles for these episodes like we do on the

• Crazy Alligator People
• Pull Back from the Grease Monkey’s Garage
• “Good Help Being Hard to Find”
• Prince Jack Bauer Robot
• The Value of Opposed Forces
• The War Between Good and Good or, Between Bad and Bad
• “Can’t We Just Pursue Our Lives with Our Children and Our Wives”
• It’s Very Important to Have a Lying Cat

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music.  We’ve done novels, we’ve done video games, and now we’re taking that idea into a yet another new medium by turning our eyes to the world of serialized comics.  Staring on July 6 and continuing for a 6-week series, we’ll be breaking down the acclaimed series “Saga” from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.

Get “Saga” (Issues 1–18)

Saga is an ongoing series, with new chapters coming out periodically. To focus our discussion, we’ll be reading just the first 18 chapters of the series.

You can read those 18 chapters in any number of different ways: in addition to the single releases, there are paperback Volumes with 6 chapters each, and even a hardcover with all 18 chapters in a single book.  There is probably a comic books store near you, and you should go out and support it by buying your edition there!

But if not, you can support Overthinking It by purchasing the books through an Amazon affiliate link:

• Paperback: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 (with 6 issues per volume)
• Hardcover: Saga Deluxe Edition Volume 1 Hardcover (with all 18 chapters)
• Digital: iTunes Store

We’d be grateful if you can use those affiliate links, but if you are totally committed to a different platform, here are links for the Comixology store and DRM-free versions directly from Image.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (this podcast): July 6 (Issues 1-3, first half of Vol. 1)
• Week 2: July 13 (Issues 4-6, second half of Vol. 1)
• Week 3: July 20 (Issues 7-9, first half of Vol. 2)
• Week 4: July 27 (Issues 10-12, second half of Vol. 2)
• Week 5: August 3 (Issues 13-15, first half of Vol. 3)
• Week 6: August 10 (Issues 16-18, second half of Vol. 3)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the book is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up an “all-series” thread for those.)

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “He has an airship, so he knows what love is.”
• “The Omelette of Turin”
• “One Must Imagine The Player Grinding For Magical Points in the Dinosaur Forest Happy”
• “A Parting Confirmation That You Are the Baddest of Asses”
• “Did Anyone Ever Steal the Ultimate Weapon from Jesus?”
• “I Need to Include the Moogles and the Yetis and the Pansexual Scarf Things”
• “A Whiff of Sasquatch”
• “I’ll Keep Playing UNTIL It’s Fun”
• “Did You Try Loving Loving Your Pikachu Better?”
• “Killing the Largest Integer on the Board”
• “It Celebrates Friendship Yet Discourages You From Having Friends”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House all the way to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• SIDE QUEST: The End of the World
• Week 5: December 3 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6 (this podcast): December 10 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “You Shouldn’t Build Your Airship Out of Wax….A Good Lesson for Us All”
• “I’m a Load Bearing Martial Artist”
• “He’d Rather be Chasing Skirts and Inventing Chain Saws”
• “The Rich Survive, Don’t Worry Everyone”
• “I’m Not Going to Say No to Better Gear”
• “You Make Your Own Laws”
• “There’s No Kefkacare”
• “Does Ultros Work for Kefka? He Seems Like a Middle Management Sort of Villain”
• “If You had 5,000 of these Vignettes You’d Have Skyrim”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House all the way to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• SIDE QUEST: The End of the World
• Week 5 (this podcast): December 3 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 10 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “Kick the Tires and Light the Fires”
• “Do we want to save the world? What’s the world done for us?”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House all the way to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• SIDE QUEST: The End of the World (this podcast)
• Week 5: December 3 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 10 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “The Truth and Reconciliation Brunch Buffet”
• “Every Week in Ultros is a Great Week in Ultros”
• “Chocobo Benedict with Goat Cheese and Asparagus”
• “Anyone can reproduce with anyone because it’s cool”
• “It needs to have a face… because you need to punch it”
• “The schoolgirl and the octopus are placed into superposition”
• “The Age of Ultros”
• “8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House all the way to Vector)
• Week 4 (this podcast): November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• Week 5: November 19 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 3 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “Nobody Puts Ultros in the Corner”
• “Kefke 2012”
• “You’re watching Romeo and Juliet and an octopus comes on stage….”
• “Is the narrative the thing, or is the gameplay the thing?”
• “Why Everyone in Australia Lies”
• “Gau Can Be the Leader If He Wants to Be”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3 (this podcast): November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House all the way to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• Week 5: November 19 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 3 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles

• “Once Again, Video Games Prove Their Superiority To Having Friends”
• “Russian Formalism If You Want to Get Nasty”
• “Locke Goes Back to Grad School”
• “The Chaperone That Makes Sure You and Sweet Lady Narrative Don’t Go Too Far on The First Date”
• “One Must Imagine Ultros Happy”
• “The Game Makes Magic Feel Awesome”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2 (this podcast): October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• Week 5: November 19 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 3 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

Possible Episode Titles:

• “As a lady, I enjoy narrative.”
• “The musical reward is really a big deal”
• “General Motors Six-Sigma Optimized Character Build”
• “This kid is like a dog or something….so I’m going to leave him behind”
• “What bourgeois do we even have in this world?”

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release. Here’s the plan.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1 (this podcast): October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• Week 5: November 19 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 3 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Final Fantasy VI Podcast

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club has always been an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of Overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Now, we’re taking that idea into a whole new medium, and turning our eyes to the world of interactive fiction – fancy talk for video games. Beginning the week of October 15, we’re going to spend a month and a half playing the RPG classic Final Fantasy VI, in honor of the 20th Anniversary of the game’s North American release. Here’s the plan.

Get The Game

If you have the game already, great! Time to dust off the SNES and get cracking. Otherwise, the game can be acquired for iOS and Android.

The Syllabus

We’ve divided the game into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you have played through these sections by these dates:

• Introduction: October 15
• Week 1: October 22 (Chapters 1-2: Narshe through the Returner’s Hideout)
• Week 2: October 29 (Chapters 3-5: Locke’s Scenario, Terra’s Scenario and Sabin’s Scenario)
• Week 3: November 5 (Chapters 6-7: From Narshe to Zozo and the Opera House to Vector)
• Week 4: November 12 (Chapters 8-10: From Vector through the Sealed Gate, Thamasa, the Floating Island, and the World of Ruin)
• Week 5: November 19 (Chapter 11: Cid’s Island to Darril’s Tomb)
• Week 6: December 3 (Chapter 12: Kefka’s Tower and wrap-up)

The Forums

For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you play over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s section of the game is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve played ahead, no spoilers for what is to come! (We’ll open up a “all-game” thread for those.)

The Podcast

Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where a panel of Overthinking It writers and guests will talk about the game. We’ll talk over the week’s gameplay, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Movie

On this podcast, we talk about the 1972 film adaptation of the novel. You can stream Slaughterhouse-Five on Amazon (affiliate link) and we’ll get a small commission if you do.

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Movie

On next week’s podcast, we’re going to talk about the 1972 film adaptation of the novel. You can stream Slaughterhouse-Five on Amazon (affiliate link) and we’ll get a small commission if you do.

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Slaughterhouse-Five Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

We’re holding the discussion in the Overthinking It Forums—head over there and join the discussion.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The Overthinking It Book Club began in 2013 with a six-week discussion of Ender’s Game. For 2014, we’re reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, with weekly podcasts featuring a rotating panel of Overthinkers discussing the book and group discussion in the Overthinking It Forums. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (July 23, 2014): Chapters 1 and 2
• Week 2 (July 30, 2014): Chapters 3 and 4
• Week 3 (August 6, 2014): Chapter 5
• Week 4 (August 13, 2014): Chapters 6, 7, 8
• Week 5 (August 20, 2014): Chapters 9 and 10
• Week 6 (August 27, 2014): The film adaptation

Get the Book

We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Slaughterhouse Five as a paperback or Kindle book. (Canadian and European readers can use these links instead.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 15, and another for discussion of the whole book. (That seems redundant. Never mind.)

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

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The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 13-14. No spoilers for later chapters, please — put those in the Whole Book forum.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

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The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

Perhaps you’d also like to read up on the Powell Doctrine.

→ Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 11-12. No spoilers for later chapters, please — put those in the Whole Book forum.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 9-10. No spoilers for later chapters, please.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Book Club Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 7-8. No spoilers for later chapters, please.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

• Subscribe in iTunes
• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Chapters 1-6 Podcast

Discuss this Section

Instead of having comments below, we’ve opened a special area of the Forums for discussion Chapters 1-6. No spoilers for later chapters, please.

Get the Book Club Podcast

Subscribe for free to download new episodes of the Overthinking It Book Club automatically.

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• Subscribe with RSS

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Also available for Canadian and European readers.)

→ Download the Ender’s Game Introduction

The Overthinking It Book Club

The book club is an experiment to see if we, the worldwide community of overthinkers, can have as much fun looking at a work of literature as we have when we talk about movies, TV shows, and music. Beginning the week of September 23, we’re going to spend a month and a half reading Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game in advance of the release of the film adaptation. It’s Ben’s favorite book and Matt has never read it before, so we’ll share the perspective both of a long-time and of a first-time reader. Here’s the plan.

Get The Book
We’d appreciate it if you used our Amazon affiliate link to buy Ender’s Game as a paperback or ebook. (Canadian and European readers can use these links.)

The Syllabus
Ben has divided the book into six roughly equal chunks. You’ll get the most out of the club if you read these sections by these dates:

• Week 1 (September 23, 2013): Chapters 1-6
• Week 2 (September 30, 2013): Chapters 7-8
• Week 3 (October 7, 2013): Chapters 9-10
• Week 4 (October 14, 2013): Chapters 11-12
• Week 5 (October 21, 2013): Chapters 13-14
• Week 6 (October 28, 2013): Chapter 15

The Forums
For our discussion, we’re going to use a special section in the Overthinking It Forums. Friday before each section begins, we’ll open up a forum for the coming week with some study questions to get our discussion started. As you read over the weekend, you can answer our questions in the week’s forum, start your own discussion topics there, and chime in on discussions that others have started. Everything up to and including the week’s reading is fair game for discussion—but if you’ve read the book, no spoilers for what is to come! (Maybe we’ll open up a special forum for those.)

The Podcast
Sometime mid-week, we’ll release a podcast where Ben, Matt, and other Overthinking It writers. We’ll talk over the week’s reading, address some of the study questions, and highlight our favorite discussions from the forums.

And more…
This is the inaugural effort for the book club, so we’re open to suggestions. Google Hangout videos? Guest commentators? Research and background on the author? We’re up for anything — and not just anything within reason. I mean, this is Overthinking It, and we’re gonna start subjecting some literature to a level of scrutiny… it probably doesn’t deserve.

Podcast feed and other sundries to come