Welcome back to the book club. I'm Michael Knowles. This time we're talking about

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We're talking with The Great.

Sage from South Central, Larry Elder, when he suggested this book to me, I assumed it was the prequel to 50 Shades of Grey of Human Bondage.

Hardly. The other thing about this book, I look you have great taste I like Somerset Moam

last Somerset Moam book I read was a pretty short book so I say okay I'll read this in a couple days we'll do the show. This book is like

600 pages. You can't you can't read it in a couple days. It is very hard to and yet as I'm

going through it I say okay maybe I'll read it kind of skim it a little bit you can't skim it the

book is phenomenal and it and it talks at its heart about one of the themes that I

know you talk about all the time, we're always thinking about,

human freedom, what it means to be free, what it means to be in bondage.

I hate to make you summarize 600 pages in 30 seconds,

but if anyone can do it, I can do it.

It's a coming of age novel.

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