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The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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That ^
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McGoohan
I've just spent the best part of an hour looking at clips from the West Wing. I've always been a little bit in love with CJ Cregg
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Me too! I was going to type that but got distracted by something trivial, like the need to feed my child.
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Little Nemo
I couldn't get into The West Wing - everyone spoke so bloody fast!

The Book of Strange New Things is a fantastic book but I found some parts almost unbearably sad.
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Everything I know I learned from Sam Seaborn.
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I’m a huge West Wing nerd. Sorry.
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McG - Favourites please? If I had to force myself to pick just one it might be this:

https://youtu.be/D93295KpIZw
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Sam: Toby, I slept with a prostitute. Accidentally.
Toby: I don’t understand. Did you trip over something?
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GregP
:)

At 10 am, people on the staff are already assuming they have won.
". . . we won. We don't have to pander," Sam tells them.

"Please don't say that. . . ." Toby says from the other end of the room. "I'm not kidding. . . . We haven't won anything yet."

"The speech is done," C.J says.

"Two speeches are done," Toby tells her.

"What's the second?"

"I've got a speech if he wins. I've got a speech if he doesn't."

"You wrote a concession?" Sam asks him.

"Of course I wrote a concession. You want to tempt the wrath of whatever from high atop the thing?"

"No."

"Then go outside, turn around three times, and spit. What the hell is the matter with you?"

"It's like 25 degrees outside. . . ." Sam sits down not taking any of this seriously. Then Josh joined the meeting and he tells him that Toby "wrote a concession speech."

"Of course, he wrote a concession speech. Why wouldn't he? What possible reason would he have for not to writing a concession speech?"

"The wrath from high atop the thing."

"He up and said we were gonna ---"

"No, you have to go outside turn around three times and curse."

"Spit."

"Spit and curse."

"Do everything. Go!"

"Go!" Getting it from both sides now, Sam gets up and flees to the freezing outdoors.

When he gets back, C.J. tells him, "You can't be too careful."

"I think you can," Sam mumbles.
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I can't pick my favourites. It's too hard.

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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