The Unofficial Lisanti Blook Cub (Book Club)
Current Book: The Ambassadors, Henry James
Other Books: Previous book club entries
Why shouldn’t I have my own book club? Oprah has one and as far as I’m concerned she is an obnoxious, mess of a women and one of the worst things to ever come upon American pop culture and that is saying a great deal. Shit I would rather sit through an episode of Family Matters then stomach even the look of her. Then again how can anyone hate on the Urkel? Surely not I, let me correct that, I would rather sit through an early episode of Full House, “You got it dude”.
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I guess the using television shows as an example of my contempt for Oprah is a reason enough for me not to have my own book club, but that is why it is the “un-official” Lisanti Book Club and after all who am I to readily attach the term “official” to any thing? On a side note, not that I am a tenured critic of literature, but most of the books on her reading list are pure pieces of fluff that are hardly fit to hold up the wobbly leg on my kitchen table (my kitchen table is not wobbly, its pretty bad ass actually, but that is an entirely different tale for another blog altogether).
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Enough about Oprah or bad television shows from the early nineties. Lets get to the task at hand, The Un-Official Lisanti Book Club, which by the way is also unofficial cause its not really a club at all. There will be no meetings of any kind, a bit like Oprah’s actually, and most likely no discussion except for the one sided blog I will write at the completion of a work. There could be a discussion via the comments on myspace, but since no one really reads this blog or cares much about it anyway and I more or less write it for my own health. A hit counter on a blog can be a very strong affirmation for a writer be it salutation or distress.
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If you may have noticed we have not had a movie review blog written here for some time. That is for a few reasons. The first that on my terribly tight budget I have little spending left over toward the viewing of fresh films. Another that I just don’t have the time these days, but the most important to this blog is that I have once again fell in love with reading the great literary works of man thanks to a customer at the gas station who haphazardly threw out a copy of new age philosopher Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” although not a classic yet Im sure in a hundred years if the human race survives that long with out destroying themselves he too will be considered a great writer of our time period.
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I picked up this book out of the trash and began to read it and mind you I work a rather docile job requiring vacuous amounts of effort. In other words up until the finding of this book I sat and stared blankly into the abyss of the imbecile for eight hours a day. From the experience I was reminded how much I used to enjoy reading in my youth but some how found an unwarranted malice toward the activity in my later years. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I have all this time on my hands where I get paid to do absolutely nothing, why not use that time to my own personal betterment and read every great novel ever written or as many as I can manage, for there are quite bit of them about.
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The above described occurrence happened a year ago this past June and since I have read over thirty novels or so, I will furnish a list in a later blog just for clarity’s sake (my own since no one reads this anyway). People who come in the station hold me at some state of educated reverie cause in today’s Internet you tube society the written word is a lost art one taken up only by the most learned. Then I realized one of the biggest hindrances to my own enjoyment of reading was never knowing what was worth spending time on. Luckily for me my friend Brennan has a literature degree from UCSB and my lady has a solid selection of well authored books.
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So here is how after a ridiculously long-winded introduction this blog segment is going to work. Every time I begin on a new book I will post what Im about to embark upon and my thoughts on it. If you feel so inclined to get your hands on a copy and read it with me the more power to you, we will all be the better for it. It usually takes me around two to four weeks per book depending on the length and difficulty.
You have the monopoly on uefusl informationaren’t monopolies illegal? 😉