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WT Sharpe · 12-26-2013, 03:03 AM

This link works:

http://www.amazon.com/All-Quiet-West.../dp/B00DAD25O8

$5.98. Not too shoddy. I would have rather read The Mysterious Mr. Quin, but as I've watched the 1930 movie, it should be interesting, at the very least

It seems to me as if people in this club have moved away from voting for books on the simple basis of pleasure. It seems every book that gets chosen these days has to have social importance or possess a certain highbrow level of literary merit. Could we be morphing into the Literary Club II? Not that there's anything wrong with highbrow aspirations or the Literary Club; it's just that if the two clubs are going to have identical aims, one is unnecessary.

12-26-2013, 03:03 AM	#12
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	This link works: http://www.amazon.com/All-Quiet-West.../dp/B00DAD25O8 $5.98. Not too shoddy. I would have rather read The Mysterious Mr. Quin, but as I've watched the 1930 movie, it should be interesting, at the very least It seems to me as if people in this club have moved away from voting for books on the simple basis of pleasure. It seems every book that gets chosen these days has to have social importance or possess a certain highbrow level of literary merit. Could we be morphing into the Literary Club II? Not that there's anything wrong with highbrow aspirations or the Literary Club; it's just that if the two clubs are going to have identical aims, one is unnecessary.