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There are 3 rules at Book Club

  1. You never talk about the people in the Book Club

  2. You never talk about the book being read in Book Club

  3. You never talk about Book Club

This week we are reading Chetan Bhagat's books, one needs to read mediocre and bad writing to understand what quality means, if you haven't experienced the lows then you will never appreciate the highs. Shuturmurg Sinha is leading this chapter. Oops. Turns out I broke all 3 rules of Book Club. This should tell you that I am a mad man.


Nobody had taught Jarkoph Maddick the art of negotiation, yet here he was bearing his soul to his competitor. He told them all of his insecurities and revealed all the internal details of the company's valuation. The competitor suddenly had tears in his eyes, he hugged Jarkoph. The competitor then offered to buy Maddick's company for 2x the valuation that was quoted. This was a win for all Jarkoph Maddicks of this generation.


Atrea was frustrated with this loneliness, he had promised himself that this valentine's day he was going to go on a date with his crush. At school, Atrea summoned all his courage and approached his crush, and asked her out. She said yes. Atrea was ecstatic. Unfortunately he hadn't prepared for the scenario of if she said yes. Atrea went to different apps and booked movie tickets. He was now ready. When he went to his crush's house to pick her up, he saw that the house had burned down. His crush was missing, her parents dead. He was disheartened, but he had spent a fortune on the tickets so he went to see the movie. He had had great time.


Ishfago was travelling in her space car to Mars, this was going to be her first day on Mars as a teacher. She was supposed to teach Math to the Martian children. She was nervous. She took the drugs out of ther bag and snorted them. Now she felt okay. She was ready to teach Math to a bunch of morons.


Two AIs were on a debate show, the topic of the debate was "Are humans necessary?"


It was 3 AM, Ralph woke up with sweat dripping down his temple. He had a bad dream. He heard noises coming from downstairs, so he took the gun from beneath his pillow and slowly climbed down the stairs. He saw two people were trying to put things in their bag, he was observing a robbery, he had his gun pointed at them and they were unaware, Ralph enjoyed it, Ralph liked that he had power over them, could drop them in two shots but he didn't. He went back to his bed.