what's on deck for the Neanderthals?

Let me first say that I'm sorry for the delay in posting after our last meeting--I've been inundated with the day-to-day of getting a new Varsity soccer season up and running. At any rate, we had a good meeting at the end of last month--Lumpkin, Enloe, Parker and me gathering to discuss All the King's Men. Unexpectedly, and rather inexplicably, Fox and Hounds was closed for cleaning and renovations ("who ever heard of a bar's closing for cleaning" mused Chip), so we all sauntered next door to The Big Easy, which was, in retrospect, a far more appropriate locale for discussing this particular novel.

I'll leave it for others to comment further about the book, except to offer this: while I luxuriated in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren's descriptions (a consensus opinion among us), I had trouble at times reconciling this voice as coming from a 1st person narrator--if I take a step back and think about it a little, I just can't see Jack Burden speaking or writing this way.

Anyway, what's next for us? In keeping with the roughly bimonthly schedule we've adopted since reconstituting, looks like we should plan our next meeting for late March or thereabouts--we'll work out a date soon to suit the schedules of our regulars. The book choices we agreed upon putting up to a vote are as follows: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac; A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess; A Sport and a Pastime, by James Salter; Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays, by Albert Camus; and White Noise, by Don DeLillo. I should mention that all of these works are nice and short . . . probably a welcome change after Crime and Punishment and All The King's Men. Weigh in by the end of this week!