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• Meetup
  A visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
  • Tue Mar 06
    7:30 PM
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  • 24 attending
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  Bookcourt

  163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY (map)

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  Hosted by: Ion (Please contact James Held, who is the organizer)

• Meetup
  Belly of Paris by Émile Zola (Brian Nelson 2009 Oxford World Classics)
  • Tue Apr 03
    7:30 PM
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  • 23 attending
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  Bookcourt

  163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY (map)

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  Hosted by: Ion (Please contact James Held, who is the organizer)

Recent Meetups

• February 7 at 7:30 PM, 20 Reading enthusiasts attended

  Disgrace by John Maxwell Coetzee
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  They rated it 5.006 (6 ratings)

  

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  Excellent book choice; excellent discussion. The leader, Jim, was very good, offered direction when needed, kept things moving, etc. ...

  —Ted Cohen

  

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  Churchill said that old age was a shipwreck. Sometimes old age can be a desert too

  —James Held

• January 10 at 7:30 PM, 20 Reading enthusiasts attended

  Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
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  They rated it 5.002 (2 ratings)

  Please come prepared to discuss the book. Please make a reasonable effort to purchase the book from Bookcourt. They will give us 20 % off through the day of the Meetup.... Learn more

• December 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, 30 Reading enthusiasts attended

  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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  They rated it 5.005 (5 ratings)

  

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  Very well moderated

  —Ion

  

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  Very good meetup--loved the passion the book evoked.

  —barbara

• November 1, 2011 at 7:30 PM, 20 Reading enthusiasts attended

  Middlemarch by George Eliot
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  They rated it 4.003 (3 ratings)

  

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  Big sprawling novel of small town England but every characters clearly and distinctly deliniated. Lovely writing

  —James Held

  

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  The people were grand, what I could hear of them. But the ad-hoc location was much too noisy. ...

  —Judy Astroff

• October 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM, 23 Reading enthusiasts attended

  The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
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  They rated it 4.006 (6 ratings)

  

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  mmmm.... This is not a book I would recommend to someone unless they like existentialism or purposeless pondering about purpose.

  —Rosie

  

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  The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation - Thoreau

  —James Held