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'I don't know about you, Tex, but I thought that the relationship between Elizabeth and Mr Darcy was darn tootin'.'

Freedom comes at a cost. We must be willing to pay the ultimate price. Retail.

Multi-Generational Books

My belief is if you're old enough to take texts, counter-texts, and meta-texts in Western Philosophy, you should be old enough to drink.

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"Strawman argument terrorises conversation... News at eleven."

The World's Biggest Book Club

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art though, Romeo? Seriously, wherefore art thou? Shakespeare in the Dark.

"Yes, could you discuss the inspiration for the protagonist? Specifically, the motivations which propel the direction of his narrative?" "I would prefer not to." "Bartleby, the author."

I'll be honest, Jerry - When you invited me to join your book club, this is not what I expected.

"It's a great story, funny and entertaining - and better still it's not won a single prize for literature."

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"You'll learn a lot at our book club...like how to read between the wines."

"Wallace couldn't come, but I brought some of his fussy prose."

'To avoid possible schism, a period of careful reflection is needed before changing the light-bulb.'

Spelling a newspaper

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

"I don'y know about you guys, but I don't feel like I've lost one goddamn bit of my feminity."

Crop Circle: Meet the Author

'How are we supposed to think the unthinkable if we have to drink the drinkable?'

'What did He do before he was God?'

'He's always looking for an argument!'

"I just completely disagree with what you just said about America lacking focus."

'Big Issue...'

At Mary Higgins Clark's book club.

"Free speech" does not mean your ignorance is equivalent to our knowledge!

Huge support for focus groups etc but nobody at the political meeting

"The problem is: reasonable men may differ on what the hell reason is!"

Everyone have enough to eat and drink? We can start the discussion! I'll have a drop of wine. Do you have another cookie? I could do one more cheese puff. Got it. No one's read the book. I googled lost of reviews!

'Crisis? Which crisis?'

"I hate arguing with someone who knows what they're talking about."

'Edward de Vere? -- give me a break!'

Uni. Snowflake Library

"Well, instead of discussing the book we could discuss why none of us had time to read it."

"Oh I don't think it's as bad as all that. In fact, I think we're in the golden age of something which we won't even realize it's the golden age of until many years from now."