Remember books?

My dear brothers,
I trust by now your insatiable appetites for knowledge are crying out with hunger pains and your cavernous capacities for learning are made even more glaringly disproportionate, in particular to those of the wench's we allow the pleasure of our companionship, by the shear absence of high level stimulus with which to utilize such capacity.  It is not without a great deal of disapointment in myself that I come to you with our storied Order's next selection with so many fortnights having passed since our last.  One of the struggles faced by great men is to prioritize and share their time and talents with those of lesser ability and means, and such struggles are in many ways responsible for the great span of time since our last meeting.  Still, such excuses may extricate lesser men from deadlines and responsibilities, but a MOP it does not.  I will not belabor the apology or explanation further except to say that I regret such time has passed since our last meeting.

I will ask that you click on the links below in order and do not read ahead, as the reveal is intended to happen in real time as you go.  The parchment selected has been chosen from a carefully considered long list, all of which are worthy and would both entertain and enhance men of even our heightened intellect.  The parchment selection is a dystopian story, a fitting genre for the political season we find ourselves in; a time where agendas, platforms and promises of leaders are made for the sole purposes of winning votes, and politics is at the helm of the ship that guides our own future.  Not to suggest this is a political book, nor that our own future is dystopian, but novels about a fictional future government resonate a little more loudly when we are deciding our own.

Like several selections before it, our next parchment has been made into several movies over the years and has also served as assigned reading for many school classes.  It has both credibility and controversy, as it simultaneously ranks fifth on the list of 100 best English Language Novels of the 20th Century and #52 on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books.  In fact, the book was banned in Ireland the year it was published for being anti-family and anti-religion.  The story has even inspired an 80s metal band to make an album and title track with the same namesake and message.  As you know, science fiction holds a special interest for yours' truly and this book certainly has sci-fi roots, taking place in the year 2540 (as envisioned by someone living in 1931, the year it was written).

This is a relatively short read which also has factored into the choice.  Although we have much to discuss before a meeting venue and date can be decided, I wanted to afford the opportunity, or at least the potential for us to have a meeting in Alexandria in relatively short order.  Although the MOP are resourceful and adaptive, and I have no doubt wherever and in whatever capacity we will have a meaningful and spirited meeting.  With that let us expedite the announcement, it is time to move further with the reveal.

Below is a URL which holds a clue.  Do not worry my tech saavy brothers, this is a safe tiny URL as I can vouge for its authenticity.  Please click on the link and follow it to its conclusion before you return here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

OK, now that you have done that, it's time for me to tell you that you've just been rickrolled and that has nothing to do with the book.  However, the next link may or may not.

http://tinyurl.com/7o3sd83

Gents, I trust the lyrical tapestry of Steve Harris and Iron Maiden has adequately informed and prepared you.  Now go forth post haste, as which no doubt your literature starved brains offer little alternative.

Margraff Readie McPageturner