The next meeting has been set for 7.30 on the 26th April at the Old Dairy and the book decided on is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
The Amazon link is here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Apart-Pocket-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141023384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269335166&sr=8-1
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For the short of cash among us you can also get it off abebooks for 66p (plus 2.49 p&p). And you get to support second hand bookshops.
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?an=Chinua+Achebe&bt.x=46&bt.y=7&sts=t&tn=things+fall+apart
I think that books, like most things, are a matter of taste and opinion and the whole point of a book club is to broaden one's literary horizons. If I wanted to read only books that I would choose for myself I probably wouldn't join a book club
Couldn't agree more. I started that Guernsey thing but thought it was ghastly and stopped after 30 pages - didn't think I would have anything positive to contribute. So I've broadened my horizons and will avoid that particular writer. I studied Chinua Achebe at university and it will be a pleasure to re-read this book. I'll try anything. I even read Generation X last week which I thought was the most tiresome load of cobblers, but I did get to the end. And I once read everything by Dostoyevsky.
I bet no one would dare put Dostoyevsky on a book club list.
Hmmm. Maybe I'll go back to Douglas Coupland.
Quick request for tomorrow night - could people bring along a few suggestions for our next book? We were a bit caught offguard last time and it would be great to have lots of ideas and we could maybe decide between 2 or 3. It might be nice to read something current day seeing as we've read a few older ones...
This does a better job of selling it than I can: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1113698
And it's here:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=2280223523&searchurl=an=borges&bt.x=55&bt.y=11&sts=t&tn=labyrinths
I will remember the book for a long time. I've never read another quite like it.
Do come next time. If you can't find the group ask the lovely bar staff, they'll point you in the right direction.