Join us for the March meet of Tough Guy Book Club Warragul Chapter. This month we are reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton. If you have the chance, try to pick up the book and read a couple of pages before the night. If you haven’t, come anyway, no one gives a damn. We are not your boss. If you
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Itâs 7pm on a weeknight and 13 blokes are talking raucously over beers at a Collingwood pub once frequented by standover man Mark Brandon âChopperâ Read.
Some wear black hoodies and scarves emblazoned with their logo â a tattoo parlour-style, circular image of a skull with a candle oozing over it.
Books can be tough: Shay Leighton, front right, at a Tough Guy Book Club meeting at Goldyâs Tavern, Collingwood.
Credit:Joe Armao
But this isnât an outlaw motorcycle club meeting.
Welcome to the Tough Guy Book Club, whose members are more likely to be discussing Ernest Hemingwayâs depiction of masculinity than terrorising neighbourhoods.