Join Us For a Discussion of C. Thi Nguyen's "The Score" on May 15th
The Liberal Currents community is hosting a book club, and we would love for you to join.
This discussion will take place on our Discord server on May 15th at 8:30 PM EST. In order to join, you will need to be a Community Subscriber or higher and have used the invitation you received when you first signed up.
If you are not a paid subscriber, you can redeem this 20% off discount on your first year as a Community Subscriber.
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The book we are reading is C. Thi Nguyen's The Score. Here is how Henry Farrell describes it:
"It is a book that is about metrics (like viewer numbers, though I don’t recall him citing those in particular) and how they define not simply our lives but our very selves, if we carelessly let them. It is a book about pizza. Also: weird yo-yo tricks and the zen-like states that accompany them. Also also: climbing, on which there is lots. Also also also: drunken cooking competitions. And that is just for starters. It is a book that absolutely ought not work, for the same structural reasons that bumblebees ought not be able to fly. The aerodynamics are all wrong. But good god, does it fly. The achieve of, the mastery of the thing! I would not have believed that a book about metrics could be a joyful and delightful book. The Score not only manages that extraordinarily difficult trick, but makes it look easy."
The subtitle of the book is "How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game," a lesson I think we all could stand to learn. A member of our community whose perspective I trust more than most insisted that this would be a good book for all of us to be familiar with, and so we all discussed it and a number of us have already agreed.
We will read the first part of the book by May 15th, and then at 8:30 PM EST we will get on a voice channel in the Discord server and have a group discussion.
Please join us! The discount we're offering gives a year of access at the Community Subscriber level for only $10 more than our Subscriber tier. You'll get access to the Discord for this book club and more, the Opposition Report, The Editors' Chat, Editor's Notes, and future book clubs.
