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I can't imagine caring what Mensa thinks anybody should read, let alone thinking that anybody should care what I think about what Mensa thinks anybody should read. And between the interminable list of several-sentence-long book reports (...why?), the writing is just one bland, melodramatic, Very Emphatic "not X but Y" after another.


Mensa makes me think of two things:

Groucho's quote "I'd never be a member of any club that would have me as a member."

And one of our favorite Columbo episodes (all free on Tubi) that features a murder in a very Mensa-style club, titled "The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case".


Yeah, the antagonists in Columbo are always "elitists" ... at least by the standards of the time of the shows.




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