What we’re about
Take your pick: book, Kindle or mp3.
In this group we ensure every title is available in all three formats.
We meet in the new Central Park complex (opposite UTS) on a Saturday afternoon. When the weather is fine we do so outdoors. Sometimes sitting on the lawn, other times in a cafe or the public food court.
The titles are chosen to encourage discussion of psychological, sociological, political, or philosophical themes raised by the author.
For you podcast-heads, rest assured, the readings are usually by professional actors. If you do prefer audio, go to Audible (click here) for a month's free trial subscription. Titles I already own are...
• James Joyce - Ulysses (full=30hours or abridged=4hours)
• Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (not a great translation)
• Herman Hesse - Steppenwolf
• Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
• John Updike - Rabbit Run
• Nick Hornby - About a Boy
• Nick Hornby - How to be Good (3h45m abridged audio)
• Tim Winton - An Open Swimmer
• Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
• Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime & Punishment
• Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native
• CS Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
• Barack Obama - Dreams from my Father
• Robert Heller - Catch 22(17 hours) **
• Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
• Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
• Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
• Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
• Aldous Huxley - Doors of Perception **
• Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow
• Arthur C Clarke -2001: A Space Odyssey
• Carl Sagan - Contact
• Carl Sagan - Demon Haunted World
• Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land
• Robert Heinlein - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
• Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
• Philip K Dick - Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep?
• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash **
• Neal Stephenson - Anathem
• Neal Stephenson - Quicksilver
• Daniel Domscheit-Berg - Inside Wikileaks
• Henry David Thoreau - Walden **
• Joseph Campbell - The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy
..........Illuminatus! Part 1 - The Eye in the Pyramid (unabridged 13 hours)
..........Illuminatus! Part 2 - The Golden Apple (unabridged 10 hours)
..........Illuminatus! Part 3 - The Eye in the Pyramid (unabridged 11 hours)
• Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn
** indicates already studied by our meetup group