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AU LIBRARIES BOOK CLUB TO MEET OCTOBER 27

Club will discuss the rise of the American fast food industry with Eric Schlosser's non-fiction book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal.

AUBURN — Club will discuss the rise of the American fast food industry with Eric Schlosser's non-fiction book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal.

The next meeting of the AU Libraries Book Club will be on October 27 in the first floor Systems Classroom of RBD Library. This month the club will be discussing Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser. Meetings will take place at both 11:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Members can choose to attend either session.

All interested persons on the AU Campus and Auburn community are invited to attend. There is no fee.

Fast Food Nation is currently on the New York Times bestsellers list. Author Eric Schlosser documents the rise of the American fast food industry and artfully ties it to issues like obesity, classism and environmental devastation. Schlosser uses a truthful journalistic style to raise questions about the practices and the food used by big, corporate restaurant chains. He even critiques the current globalization of the same corporate chains.

The Boston Globe calls the book "reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." Rob Walker of the New York Times says the text "is a fine piece of muckraking, alarming without being alarmist," and the Atlanta Journal- Constitution says this "should be another wake-up call, a super-size serving of common sense."

Join the club October 27 to discuss this nonfiction bestseller. Feel free to bring lunch if choosing to come to the 11:45 a.m. meeting or supper at the 5 p.m. meeting. The discussion is open to everyone. The book is available for purchase from the University Bookstore for 15 percent off the cover price. For more information, please contact Stephanie Morgan at 844-1714 or mail to: stephanie@auburn.edu.

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CONTACT:
Stephanie Morgan
AU Libraries
RBD Library
Auburn University, AL 36849

phone - (334) 844-1714
stephanie@auburn.edu