Starting in the month of February The East St. Louis Literary Club will begin meeting the last Saturday of every month at City Hall.
Meetings are 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. We will have 45 minutes to 1 hour for socializing, with discussing of the book starting at 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm.
We are a strong group of diverse professionals coming together to read, discuss and socialize for the love of it.
We get together once a month to fellowship and enjoy each other’s company.
We discuss the newest authors, plays and movies. Together, we inspire and encourage each other to achieve!

The requirements for being a member of the group is that you love to Read, Discuss and Socialize.
The type of books we read will be what we as a group agree on.
If there is a specific topic or genres you have, being it to the table with a brief history on the author and story. We as a group will vote on it.
If your book is chosen you then have the responsibly of hosting the next meeting.
The host is responsible for providing author information and giving an introduction to the group's discussion.
Meetings are held every of month which will be the last Saturday of the month at City Hall.
Meetings are 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. We will have 45 minutes to 1 hour for socializing, with discussing of the book starting at 4:00 pm until 6:00 pm.
The host is responsible for letting the members know where to purchase the book, via email or invitation.
Members who have not read the book will be welcome.

The book takes the form of a story. It is largely based on Kiyosaki's own upbringing and education in Hawaii, although the degree of fictionalization is disputed. Because of the heavy use of allegory, some readers believe that Kiyosaki created Rich Dad as an author surrogate (a literary device), discussed further in the criticism section below. The Poor Dad in the story is based on Kiyosaki's real father, a PhD holder and graduate of Stanford, Chicago, and Northwestern University, all on full scholarship, who was the head of the Education department of the state of Hawaii. In the book, he is greatly respected until he decides, late in his career, to take a stand on principle against the governor of Hawaii. This leads directly to Poor Dad losing his job, and his inability to find comparable work ever again. Because he has never learned to handle money, instead depending on the government (his employer) for support, he dies in severe debt.

In contrast to this character is Rich Dad, his best friend Michael's father. Rich Dad dropped out in 8th grade, but became a self-made multi-millionaire regardless. He teaches Kiyosaki and Michael a variety of financial lessons, and insists that the boys learn to make money work for them to avoid spending their whole lives working for money, like Rich Dad's employees, as well as Poor Dad, and indeed most of the people in the world.

Anthony Robbins holds a seminar called 'Wealth Mastery' and one of the keynote speakers is a gentleman called Keith Cunningham. During the seminar Cunningham claimed to be Kiyosaki's Rich Dad. This is highly unlikely not only because of the similarity in age between Cunningham and Kiyosaki, and Kiyosaki had stated in his books that Rich Dad had passed away in 1994. It is most likely that Rich Dad was a person named Richard Kimi, the deceased founder of Sand and Seaside Hawaiian Hotels.

The book highlights the different attitudes to money, work and life of these two men, and how they in turn influenced key decisions in Kiyosaki's life.