I actually am about to straight reading Camus' The Stranger based on someone in this thread's recommendation.

also on my list are "Black Like Me" and "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare"

Sounds like we need to have a meeting of the Finer Things club next Fest for all of us book learned folk.

i'll bring the grier! bwahaha!

I'l get a bottle of Campari and somebody else get one of the tapes of Vonnegut reading his own books, we can all talk about intelligent things until we're too trashed to remember what the point of reading is.

oh neigh sir, one must never get overly imbibed at said meetings. doing so would be a gross misconduct and very ungentlemanly.

i'll bring the moonshine. this is the south, we have different kinds of 'finer things' or more correctly, 'finer thangs'.

If we're going for Southern "refinement" I'd say we'll need biscuits and gravy. I love that shit so much, and no one out west can make white gravy I like.

gosh damn we got sidetracked quick.

and it's true. they dont make B&G anywhere like the south.

back to books.

anyone read David Sedaris?

My favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo. geebus that's a great book.

A Confederacy of Dunces!

Wow.
Seriously.

Go ahead and pencil it in folks. GNV residents this summer, Festgoers next year, if you've got brains and like books, there will be meeting of the Confederacy of Dunces to talk literature, listen to the Andres Segovia recording of Bach, and eat southern cooking.

Sad to say it, but I've been waiting years for a book club I actually wanted to join.

The forces that be will not allow you to live here, if you refer to our fine city as GNV again.

outside of bishops tavern its says their beer specials and then "Book Socials Here!"

up until yesterday I swore they meant they were having book club gatherings

It's the airport code. And 8 less letters to type. But if you insist.

no one refers to Orlando as MCO
airport codes are lies!

yeah EWR newark? SWF Ft Myers? whoever named airports deserve to be kicked in the nads.

GNV FLA, man!

LTJ, that is.

"If hotwater music named their album gainesville florida, you guys would be all 'ooohhh, OMG, ahhh'. "

hahahaha anyone remember that?