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Comment by Richard Roman on July 5, 2012 at 23:11

If I cannot find the books online then we will change them. Can anyone help in providing links?

Comment by Richard Roman on July 5, 2012 at 23:04

We are changing!

Here are the books for the autumn/winter season

September - Bridge over the San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

October - The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

December - Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

January - Brave New World = Aldous Huxley

February - holiday!

March - Siddharta - Herman Hesse

April - The Great Gatsby - Scott Fitzgerald

I will try to find links for downloading and also give dates later!

Many thanks to Juan for coming up with the ideas!

Comment by Elliott.B on June 8, 2012 at 7:44

good,this group is a one with special ideas..

Comment by Richard Roman on April 13, 2012 at 15:20

The next Book Club meeting will be on Tuesday 15th may
"The Dead" is the final short story in the 1914 collection Dubliners by James Joyce. It is the longest story in the collection and is often considered the best of Joyce's shorter works. At 15,672 words it has also been considered a novella.
It was made into a film also entitled The Dead in 1987, directed by John Huston. In 1999 it wasadapted into a musical by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. Christopher Walken starred in the original production.
The book can be downloaded here:
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2814

Comment by Richard Roman on March 5, 2012 at 23:05

Anyone interested in discussing it then we meet at grandpa's tomorrow (tuesday) from 7.30pm

Comment by Richard Roman on March 5, 2012 at 23:04

Patriotism - Scary, scary short story by Yukio Mishima

Comment by Richard Roman on January 28, 2012 at 21:05

Check out the Events page - next meeting on 6th march

Yukio Mishima was the pen name of Kimitake Hiraoka (1925 – 1970), a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor and film director, also remembered for his ritual suicide by seppuku after a failed coup d'état. Nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Mishima was internationally famous and is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century, whose avant-garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change.^[3]

"Patriotism" (憂国, Yūkoku) is a short story by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. It was written in 1960, first published in 1966, and translated into English the same year. The character 憂 (yū) actually means "worry" or "concern", and though Yūkoku is translated as "patriotism", the word bears with it a meaning more congruent with "concern for one's country" rather than patriotism directly.

 The book can be read here:

http://www.mutantfrog.com/patriotism-by-yukio-mishima/

The film can be seen here:

http://www.ubu.com/film/mishima_rite.html

 

 

Comment by Fin MacDonald on December 28, 2011 at 12:24

I also agree that James Joyce should have a turn. 

Comment by Fin MacDonald on December 28, 2011 at 12:23

Here's one idea; Senegalize novel So Long a Letter.  The original is in French, but the translation is available in English on pdf. 

Comment by Richard Roman on December 7, 2011 at 20:57

How about this for an idea - after our next book club meeting we choose a Chinese writer.

Richard Ridealgh has asked if we can hold the meeting at WLC and he will get some of his students to attend.

If we can choose a book and arrange with Richard then he can invite his students to be part of the meeting?

Just an idea!

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