"I find book clubs are good for mental stimulation," especially ones like those that question the utility of 'great books' a position taken by a an accomplished prof at Comparative Literature at Harvard and staff writer at the New Yorker, Menand, who argues against (Montas) who is in the opposite Camp at Brown. Now that's a duel to test our neurons! In the end it's the Quality of the argument, for or against, that is really Enjoyable, not the side one takes. Life has pleasures to offer in a thousand different ways if we keep our curiosity alive.