What we’re about
Tired of stuffy library book clubs? Get together at a local restaurant (that's where the 'One Drink Minimum' comes into play, although any menu item would do) to discuss this month's book. Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, you'll read a new book every month. Come to laugh, learn, share stories and make new friends!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. ThompsonTBD, Princeton, NJ
* NO SHOW POLICY: No Show once and you're dropped from our group.*
(full title)
'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream'Available at Mercer County Library:
https://merl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/mcl/search/results?qu=fear+and+loathing+in+las+vegas&te=
Goodreads description:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7745“A scorching, epochal sensation!”—Tom Wolfe, The New York Times
“[A book] in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac.”—The New Republic, 1972
First published in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is told through Hunter S. Thompson’s story of an assignment he undertook with his attorney to visit Las Vegas and “check it out.” The book stands as the final word on the highs and lows of that decade, one of the defining works of our time, and a stylistic and journalistic tour de force. As Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times, it has “a kind of mad, corrosive prose poetry that picks up where Norman Mailer’s An American Dream left off and explores what Tom Wolfe left out.”
- description from Penguin Random House. Photo credited to Cashman Photo Enterprises, Inc. (on back cover of the 1972 first edition). Source, Wikipedia.
- 'Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio' by Derf BackderfUno Chicago Grill, Hamilton, NJ
* 'NO SHOW' POLICY *: 'No Show' once and you're dropped from our group.
Available at Mercer County Library (print and e-book):
https://merl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/mcl/search/results?qu=kent+state+backderf&te=
Goodreads description:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50159458-kent-state?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=q0Phv41inw&ra*** It's Graphic Novel Month! ***
Named a Best Book by the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, PopMatters, the Beat, and the Comics Journal
“One of the masterpieces of the medium...a work of devastating emotional impact.” —Forbes
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, four students were killed and nine shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children—a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, ten-year-old Derf Backderf saw those same guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor to crush a trucker strike.
Using the journalism skills he employed on My Friend Dahmer and Trashed, Backderf conducted extensive interviews and research to explore the lives of these four young people and the events of those four days in May, when the country seemed on the brink of tearing apart. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio is a moving and troubling story about the bitter price of dissent, as relevant to modern times as it was in 1970.- descriptions from Abrams Books; image from Kent State University