After months of blogging I have finally read a description of a good blog. They are "frequency, brevity and personality". I fail the first two but I think "personality" shows through. I'll work on the other two, oh lucky reader.
I have fallen behind. In the last installment I was sorting through our light, summer read, Michael Lewis's "The Big Short". At our July meeting Jeannie L. used a quote from the book to sum up the financial mess :
"The upper class of this country raped this country. You fucked people. You built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience. Nobody ever said, 'This is wrong.' " Page 232
I think that says it all.
Our August Title was George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London." Another "light " read.
I find this book really uneven. The first half when he is working in Paris as a "plongeur" is lively and interesting. The people and situations are vivid. He's really working and making an effort.
In the London half of the book he borrows old clothes so he can be a tramp to see how the out of work survive in England. I guess it's more of an expose of the life of the British unemplyed and how the system doesn't work.
My copy of the book lists it as fiction. It reads more like "gonzo journalism". Perhaps Orwell was just ahead of his time. Thank you Hunter S. Thompson.
I have fallen behind. In the last installment I was sorting through our light, summer read, Michael Lewis's "The Big Short". At our July meeting Jeannie L. used a quote from the book to sum up the financial mess :
"The upper class of this country raped this country. You fucked people. You built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience. Nobody ever said, 'This is wrong.' " Page 232
I think that says it all.
Our August Title was George Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London." Another "light " read.
I find this book really uneven. The first half when he is working in Paris as a "plongeur" is lively and interesting. The people and situations are vivid. He's really working and making an effort.
In the London half of the book he borrows old clothes so he can be a tramp to see how the out of work survive in England. I guess it's more of an expose of the life of the British unemplyed and how the system doesn't work.
My copy of the book lists it as fiction. It reads more like "gonzo journalism". Perhaps Orwell was just ahead of his time. Thank you Hunter S. Thompson.
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