The Finer Things Book Club - who's up for Phil's new book?

[Jakay]

It's been awhile.

It is the "righteous" path to full blown narcissism. You could write the same story only Kurtz becomes CEO of a multinational.

[Kilroy]

Question #1: Do you guys think the book is racist?

If I might step in here and maybe help facilitate discussion.

The book is a metaphorical statement about a time in British history in which their society was ripe with jingoism, moral superiority, and yes, racism.
So the book itself is intentionally all those things in order to highlight the moral pitfalls in that way of thinking.

Conrad is questioning the way his people are thinking by using the moral decay of a character in his book as a microcosm of what he sees happening to the society he lives in.

That said, I think your average person from today's society, would probably call the average person from Conrad's society a card-carrying racist... So it might be a little unfair to judge Conrad along those lines... Just as it would be to judge Twain without considering his intent.

[Slava]

Yeah, they were colonizing countries all over the globe and this was from when they said that the sun never set on the British empire. More stark is the way they were plundering land in foreign nations by using the natives as cheap workforce to help them set them back decades.

[Doormatt]

I think the guy that recommended the book hasn't read it.

oh sorry, i actually have read it becuase ive been much busier with school than i expected so i havent really had time to gather any thoughts about it. i was gonna post some stuff on friday when i had some free time becuase i think this book deserves more than a sentence or two.

[EArl]

The Finer Things Book Club is now in sessions and welcomes anyone interested to join in. Club members must be willing to commit to reading a piece of literature chosen by club members by the deadline chosen by the club members. At such time, sophisticated discussion will commence regarding said literature.

If you feel like you'd be an asset to this club, please consider signing up.

Official Club Members:

1. dockingsched
2. doormatt
3. tycobb
4. slava
5. miggs
6. eablinksum
7. tasp
8. tugs
9. dub81
10. mjba
11. father time
12. speedlot

So are we going to do the Phil Jackson book?

[dub81]

I'm already reading Phil's book. But whatever the group wanna do I will roll

[dockingsched]

So are we going to do the Phil Jackson book?

only like 3 people said they were interested when i brought it up previously, so i kinda just let it be.

anyone else have interest now?

[EArl]

I'm definitley down even if it's a few people. I'm done with school tomorrow so I will have a lot of free time.

[myersia]

I already read it. I'll wait to give my review until after everyone's read it.

[EArl]

Tha't's three.

Come on Doormatt, Ty, Slav?

[TyCobb]

I already tried this when I read two books from the top vote list and nobody participated. I also don't really care what Phil has to say.

[Slava]

Same as Ty but I'll be up for reading this. I can pick a copy over the weekend.

[EArl]

I promise i'll participate this time. Last time I was in school so I didn't have time to read the book.

We can make the date to finish by the end of the month or less time.

After we can pick a different book.

[EArl]

[EArl]

Wondering if anyone wants to revisit this thread and actually making it work. I just got a PDF version of inferno by Dan Brown and would pass it along your way if you want to participate in this.

Let me know guys.

[Slava]

I'll wait for Doorsnob to make fun of you for reading Dan Brown.

I'm always up for resurrecting this. I have kindle with amazon prime so most books are gettable.

[dockingsched]

Wondering if anyone wants to revisit this thread and actually making it work. I just got a PDF version of inferno by Dan Brown and would pass it along your way if you want to participate in this.

Let me know guys.

I'm in. Haven't read it cause I heard it wasn't all that great, but id still be up for it.

[EArl]

That makes 3 assuming Slava is in. Ill wait another day or two? to start. If you need a pdf version pm me your email Dock and I can send it to you. Its only 2.1 mb so it should be sendable.

What do you want the deadline to be to finish it?

[dockingsched]

Already got it, thanks though.