Latest Books
Want to know what kinds of books we read? You can find all of our previous selections as well as reviews written by members of our club below. Some they loved, others not so much. We trust you'll make up your own damn mind once you get to turning the pages. Watch out for a few spoilers too!
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The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (1962)
June 30, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. Hemingway was already a noted author but not yet the widely known, larger than life figure he went on to be. Fiesta took him to the next level of acclaim. I wasn’t part of TGBC when this was...
Read MoreI Am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes (2013)
June 03, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. I am Pilgrim pieces together a complex series of interwoven crimes and sinister plots, set to the modern theme of extremist Islamic terrorism. Pilgrim is the man charged with tracking down the Saracen, thought to be untraceable and...
Read MoreRabbit, Run - John Updike (1960)
May 06, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. Poor Rabbit, his life was meant to be so good. Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrum was young, popular and the high school basketball star. But now, only a few years later, nothing has worked out the way he was so...
Read MoreA Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962)
March 31, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. Our humble narrator in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ is Alex, Alex is 15, living with his not so strict, caring and hard working parents, he goes to school and has a passion for Beethoven’s 9th. Evenings he enjoys drinking...
Read MoreBrighton Rock - Graham Greene (1938)
March 04, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. It is quite apt that in the month of promising to undertake this review, Graham Greene himself a member of the secret intelligence service whom worked under the infamous Kim Philby is also noted for aspiring John Le...
Read MorePost Office - Charles Bukowski (1971)
February 04, 2015
Grab a copy and get reading. Henry Chinaski is a tough guy. He’s the invention of Charles Bukowski, a poet and writer who used to work with the post office. And this is where Chinaski works too. We follow him on what amounts to...
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