Today we welcome Steve Lynch, author of Arrogance and Accords, to the discussion. He will be commenting and responding below.

This was my third read-through of A&A and what struck me this time was the business of “burning cards” for the purpose of fraudulently reporting sales before they’d occurred. You wouldn’t think that Honda in the Eighties, of all m…

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It’s a new high point in ACF Book Club history. Steve Lynch’s Arrogance and Accords is rightly praised both for its riveting subject manner and the casual, entertaining way in which the tale is told. It’s also famous for being virtually impossible to find in print — unless you want to spend between $400 and $1900 with a rare-book dealer for the original hardcover edition.

Well, not only will ACF paid subscribers read the book for free as part of this month’s Book Club, we will also have the author himself available to participate in our discussion. Steve Lynch will be reading and commenting right along with the rest of us. Over to you, sir:

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Welcome back, friends, to the ACF Book Club. We are picking up Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander.

I was thoroughly impressed by the book, especially when one considers that it was written in the heat of, and perhaps as a response to, the hippie culture shift of the late Sixties. In this respect, the adage of “the past is another country” applies tw…

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I’ll be pinning this topic for a while. Our normal ACF Book Club continues unchanged; we are about to reconvene to discuss “Master and Commander”. This is a separate, long-lived post for people to ask questions, or discuss topics, or offer suggestions, regarding Cat Tales: Short Stories of Friends and Ferals.

There’s been one unfortunate development since the book published: the white-bellied tiger kitten described in one of the final chapters is dead. We saw the body on the road next to the reservoir the night the book went live. I’m praying he or she had similar siblings who are still with us.

I’d like to thank all of you for buying and reading Cat Tales. It’s become commonplace in our business for autowriters to publish anthologies and/or general-interest car books in the middle and end of their careers. I wanted to do something completely different. Which greatly limits my audience, but I don’t care. I never expected to be wealthy. I appreciate those of you who have taken the leap to read twenty stories about feral cats, as opposed to, say, some Chris Harris book about how STONKING the MEGA FEZZA V12 is and so on.

Good evening, friends. This has been much-requested. I haven’t read it yet; I saw the movie when it came out and was generally unimpressed, which means absolutely nothing in terms of the book’s excellence.

We will return in 30 days to discuss Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian:

• Amazon link: I make a full 57 cents if you buy it this way.

• AbeBooks, mos…

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Today is our discussion of Blindsight by Peter Watts, as announced last month. Discussion is open, and I will pin a couple of the more in-depth responses.

Evaluated strictly as literature, Blindsight isn’t; the primary interest is in the concepts and ideas put forth throughout the text. Nevertheless, I’ll start with a few general thoughts on the plot and…

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I said three weeks, but I procrastinated to four. Robert Ringer would not approve.

Today is our discussion of Winning Through Intimidation, as announced last month. Discussion is open, and I will pin a couple of the more in-depth responses.

My thoughts on the book, in short order:

• The strongest and most universal principle in the book is the Posture Theory…

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Good evening, friends. After much discussion and feedback on your part, I’m officially inaugurating the ACF Book Club. These are the “rules”:

• Paid subscribers only.

• A new book in the middle of every month. Suggestions are always welcome, just toss them in with the rest of the c…

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