What we’re about
A book club to scratch that sweet spot inside your head. Reading books that will gnaw their way into your brain and then eat it out from the inside out. Books that aren't afraid to imagine radical new possibilities for both you and the rest of the world. Books that question themselves and everything else. Books that make strange noises and funny little beeps. Books that refuse to offer easy answers and instead invite you to... go a little bit deeper.
Conversations that get beneath the surface and beyond the superficial to examine the various beautiful and mysterious ways that books can challenge and shape our perspectives and ideologies in ways that enrich and inspire us further. Making us into better humans or maybe even something better than human?
Peeking into the minds of such authors as: Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K Dick, Stanisław Lem, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Alasdair Gray, Octavia E. Butler, Michel Houellebecq, China Miéville, Becky Chambers, Vladimir Nabokov, qntm, Haruki Murakami, H. P. Lovecraft, Jeff VanderMeer, Cormac McCarthy, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Virginia Woolf, Susanna Clarke, Iain M Banks, Gene Wolfe, Sally Rooney, J. G. Ballard and many more
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Upcoming events (3)
See all- Brain Worms 108 / VALIS by Philip K. DickRio Cinema, Hackney
Only Philip K Dick could produce a novel as comically disturbing as Valis. This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity; and reality as revealed through a pink laser. VALIS is a theological detective story, in which God is both a missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime. Also there's a three-eyed race among us and all time between AD 103 and 1974 may be a divine illusion...
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
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To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
- Brain Worms 109 / The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonRio Cinema, Hackney
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
...
To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
- Brain Worms 110 / The Great When by Alan MooreRio Cinema, Hackney
The year 1949, the city London. Hapless second-hand bookseller Dennis stumbles through a city still shaking off the war. While out procuring inventory, Dennis's life changes forever when he chances upon a novel that shouldn't exist; an entirely fictional book from inside another novel. The book hails from The Great When, a magical shadow-London, where reality blurs with fiction and concepts like Crime, Poetry and Riot are incarnated as mystical beings that stalk the streets. This discovery brings terrible danger, as the book's presence leaves the doorway open between the two Londons, and The Great When must remain a secret. Soon Dennis finds himself in the city's occult underbelly, negotiating sorcerers, gangsters, and murderers - some imaginary, some all too real, and all with plans of their own. If Dennis cannot return the book and close the gate, he risks dire repercussions...
Available from all good libraries and book shops.
You don't have to have read it to join us - but it'll probably help.
We will be meeting in The Ludski Bar in the Rio Cinema.
https://www.riocinema.org.uk/your-visit/You are welcome to bring outside food in with you but please buy your drinks from inside the cinema. Thank you.
We hope to see you there.
...
To join the Brain Worms WhatsApp Group please click here: https://chat.whatsapp.com/EvFibn1d6AsEwdVGmwkhko (in order to stop spam bots this will take you to a Waiting Room. Once in please write your name and we will join you to the main chat).
Meetup charges subscription fees. If you would like to make a donation please click here: https://paypal.me/philosophycollective
