h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm now in two book groups, and have been to a meeting of the 'younger' one tonight. Younger in two senses: formed more recently (last summer) and the average age of the members is about 30 years younger than I am, whereas the other book group it's only about 20 years!

Anyway, it was a good laugh. As the name suggests, we meet at a pub (various different ones, according to who is organising the meeting, and how we vote - via Doodle poll http://www.doodle.com/ ), and this evening we were due to start at 6.30, so a group of us went straight to the pub after work and had a bite to eat.

We were discussing 'Ghostwalk' by Rebecca Stott: a Cambridge-set ghost story, by a Cambridge author. Lots of holes were picked in the geography: "she said you could see Trinity out of the window of level 5 in the UL and you can't" - most of the group members work in various University libraries! The plot and characterisation also came in for some criticism.
It's not the sort of book I would normally choose to read (I have to admit to avoiding reading it late at night when home alone!), but that's why I'm in book groups ...