Article: the MONDAY BOOK CLUB: ; Lodge novel comments cleverly on the literary world

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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