Tuesday 21 November 2023

I Have Often Heard Of Book Clubs,

I assume collectively everyone reads a book, and after say 2 weeks or a month meet again to discus it,

 
images AbeBooksbut this book club is a tad different, it is dedicated to just one book, and the club have been meeting for 28 years discussing it! from the article

"Gerry Fialka, an experimental filmmaker from Venice, California, has hosted a book club dedicated exclusively to Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce since 1995. Between 10 and 30 people would show up to monthly meetings at a local library to read two pages of the book and discuss their opinions. Eventually, they slowed the pace down to just one page per meeting, to give themselves more debating time, so they spent the next 28 years going through the book just one time", 

if you want to read the book yourself the above copy is available to you for just £4,528.87 plus shipping, 

or there is this slightly more affordable edition for £7.32, both from AbeBooks, next week if I remember it I might buy a copy and bang it off over the weekend, as it happens you can download a copy here, all 628 pages of it!


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