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Article: the MONDAY BOOK CLUB: ; Lodge novel comments cleverly on the literary world
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- June 1, 2008
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June selection The Sunday Gazette-Mail Monday Book Clubs
selection for June is Changing Places by David Lodge. The group will
meet to discuss the book at 6 p.m. June 30 at Taylor Books.
Humiliation - a parlor game In Changing Places David Lodge invents a
game called Humiliation. The person whose turn it is chooses a book
he or she hasnt read. Then the player gets a point for each person
of the assembled group who has read the book. In other words, you
should choose a book that our culture thinks everyone should have
read, then confess that you havent read it. Only by revealing that
you are a less-than-sophisticated reader can you score points, thus
humiliating yourself in front of your ...
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