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Charles Bukowski
“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
Charles Bukowski, Barfly

G.K. Chesterton
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

Lewis Carroll
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

George Gissing
“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
George Gissing

Jean-Paul Sartre
“Hell is—other people!”
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

600 Gothic Literature — 111 members — last activity Feb 23, 2026 03:00AM
Discussing the darker aspects of 18th - 21st century literature. If you cannot find a topic you are interested in feel free to create a new thread for ...more
116665 Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time in 2014 — 93 members — last activity Mar 09, 2019 04:37PM
A reading group for Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time". This group reading adventure will begin on January 1, 2014 and go on through December ...more
2083 NYRB Classics — 1461 members — last activity Feb 22, 2026 02:03PM
For friends of NYRB Classics
58827 Brain Pain — 1247 members — last activity Oct 10, 2023 09:29AM
NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read ch ...more
170208 2016: A Dance to the Music of Time — 96 members — last activity Nov 14, 2019 07:37PM
2016 reading group for the 12 book series by Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time. One book per month.
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