The Business
Registered by londonmet of -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on 10/24/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
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Journal Entry 1 by londonmet from -- Somewhere in London 🤷‍♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, October 24, 2004
I've been registering more books in the race to get 1.5 million on the website.
I've actaully read and liked this, although I'm not sure about the ending, which seems somewhat incongruous to me.
I'm in a hurry, so I nicked the sell below from amazon:
The Business is the 1990s success story run riot. The eponymous organisation is ancient, rich and invisible. All it lacks is a certain political clout, something the Business has avoided for centuries but with which it is now beginning to toy. A seat in the UN is at stake as Kate Telman, Level 3 executive, is drawn into the (rather polite) machinations of her superiors. Those expecting John Grisham may be disappointed. No bad thing, perhaps: Kate's personal-professional life-- there is, of course, no conflict here for the successful individual of the 1990s--is the main concern. Banks' interest is in the moral debates about the position of the Business in a world it finds easy to manipulate, drawing the reader into a discussion of the place of the multi-national in contemporary economic and cultural life. "A lot of successful people are less hard-hearted than they like to think": is one view put forward, and not the only romantic but equivocal sentiment hiding somewhere in The Business. --John Shire
Picked up at a London Renegades meetup. To be transferred to the new OBCZ upstairs in Caffe Nero in Ipswich, Suffolk, where supply is currently not keeping up with demand!
I'm in a hurry, so I nicked the sell below from amazon:
The Business is the 1990s success story run riot. The eponymous organisation is ancient, rich and invisible. All it lacks is a certain political clout, something the Business has avoided for centuries but with which it is now beginning to toy. A seat in the UN is at stake as Kate Telman, Level 3 executive, is drawn into the (rather polite) machinations of her superiors. Those expecting John Grisham may be disappointed. No bad thing, perhaps: Kate's personal-professional life-- there is, of course, no conflict here for the successful individual of the 1990s--is the main concern. Banks' interest is in the moral debates about the position of the Business in a world it finds easy to manipulate, drawing the reader into a discussion of the place of the multi-national in contemporary economic and cultural life. "A lot of successful people are less hard-hearted than they like to think": is one view put forward, and not the only romantic but equivocal sentiment hiding somewhere in The Business. --John Shire
Picked up at a London Renegades meetup. To be transferred to the new OBCZ upstairs in Caffe Nero in Ipswich, Suffolk, where supply is currently not keeping up with demand!
