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A book club to get together with others while love reading the classics or who have always wanted to give them a try. The idea is to be inspired to read great books, chat about ideas and meet new people.
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A bit self indulgent. I LOVE this book. If you like the plays of Tom Stoppard, or the books of Flann O’Brien, this will be right up your street. A story about how stories get themselves told one way or another.
Emile Zola’s working class classic. French realism, one of the most influential novelists of the 19th Century.
I would like to tackle Joyce’s modern behemoth Ulysseses again, and was hoping ONG to take somewhere along for the ride. I have deliberately set it many months in advance as it’s definitely not a single weekend read. My thoughts were to start a messenger chat group with anyone who would even like to consider it. There will be no shame in starting and deciding if it’s not your thing. But if you’re even considering it please send me a message and I shall add you to the chat group. I was thinking of having the final meeting at my house on a Friday in July, possibly over an Irish whiskey. But I thought we might get also have a couple of informal meets in the meantime if anyone is interested. (Would be open to changing the dates at the convenience of others)
Winner of the Booker prize, written by a Nobel prize winning writer, adapted by James Ivory into a prize winning film starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant, this study of British class character and history feels like a distillation of everything covered by the term British classic. Made even more interesting by being written by Japanese born author Kazuo Ishiguro. Regardless of subject matter one of the best character studies I’ve ever read.
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