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Ultra Discipline Implied
is kind of an inside joke with a few of us who started this book group. The concept is really simple . . . we read a (hopefully) high-brow, literary-worthy book once every 2 months, meet and discuss online. We are always looking for new members. Free, of course. And pretty fun, if you have the discipline :)

After attending for a while you can be invited to moderate a book of your choice . . .

We are an irreverent group in our thirties, but are always interested in getting a few more regular members . . . usually we read fiction, but occasionally non.

Some of us attend from Brazil and Norway, and the other current members attend from California, New York,

and Maryland.  

A list of many of the books we have read since 2002 follows.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel
Michael Chabon

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera


The Secret History
Donna Tartt

Atonement
Ian McEwan

City of Glass
Paul Auster


Survivor

Chuck Palahniuk

Geek Love
Katherine Dunn

 

Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie

Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins


Mysteries
Knut Hamsun


The Blank Slate (non-fiction)
Steven Pinker

Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem


Silent Partners
Geoffrey Bent


My Uncle Oswald
Roald Dahl

Zeno's Conscience
Italo Suevo


Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis

My Name is Red
Orhan Pamuk

Platform
Michael Houellebecq

The Unfolding of Language (non-fiction)
Guy Deutscher

Ubik
Philip K. Dick

The Moviegoer
Walter Percy


The Prince of the Marshes (non-fiction)
Rory Stewart


The Iron Heel
Jack London


The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril
Paul Malmont

House of Leaves
Mark Z Danielewski

The Plague
Albert Camus

 

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson


The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterson

 

Trout Fishing in America
Richard Brautigan

 

Then We Came to the End
Joshua Ferris

 

The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart


In the Beauty of the Lillies
John Updike

 

Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee

 

By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolano

 

Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Murphy
Samuel Beckett


 

. . . and many more