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This is why I like to have a compromise in my car audio system….

progressives also count any book review longer than 500 words as having “read the book”. you know, their bottomless potential for pretention.

for instance, i was thinking: if the thing that can be said of bush is that he accidentally mispronounces words because he can’t help himself, the thing that can be said of kerry is that he purposely mispronounces words as a feint to make himself seem more astute. i.e., “nucular” vs. “jenjis”.

“Six Memos for the Next Millennium” by Italo Calvino.

(Actually 5, but you have to read it to find out why.)

A tasty writer.

I took a run at “Mere Christianity” on the advice of two friends but gave up in exasperation about halfway through.

Made you uncomfortable did it?

True to my word, I’ve perused my bookshelf for some ideas…hopefully you haven’t already read the entire list!

Got ‘em organized by topic too –

World History:
A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin (liked better than his The Creators & The Seekers)

English History:
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
The Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir

American Revolution:
Negotiating the Constitution by Joseph M. Lynch

Civil War:
The Class of 1846 by John C. Waugh
Stonewall Jackson by James I. Robertson

19th Century Europe:
The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Denis Bredin

WWII:
The Sisters by Mary S. Lovell
Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D’Este

Vietnam:
A Thousand Tears Falling by Yung Krall

Historical Fiction:
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Foucalt’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Fantasy:
Fire & Ice Series by George R.R. Martin
Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper (good series for adolescents)
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Series by Stephen R. Donaldson

Mystery:
Maltese Falcon by Dashell Hammett (just like the movie)
The Thin Man by Dashell Hammett (a little darker than the movie)
The Continental Op by Dashell Hammett

I can even recommend Classical Literature if you’d like, but I stopped reading a lot of Fiction after 1993, when I couldn’t find any book I hadn’t read already! English Lit. majors have to find something else to read…so I’ve been hitting the Historical portions of the book store ever since. You know it’s bad when you’ve even read Russian poetry…in Russian! Moi Bog!

This story seems to have got a lot of play from a whole list of literate, bibliophile right wingers because the premise is so silly. To recap there was a survey of 1003 Americans with this result:…

Oh, BTW, Gibbon is my bedtime reading. Those of you who say you don’t read books, try turning off the TV at night and just do your reading in bed. Very relaxing.

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

I didn’t really like that. Have you read The Scarlet Letter? It came out in the same year (1865?) and was also about a heroine facing adversity. Far superior in my opinion.

I read The Scarlet Letter in high school–about 20 years ago. I don’t remember much of it.

I did read The House of the Seven Gables a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Hawthorne is an acquired taste for many, I think.

Several fiction books, inlcuding all of the John Rain assasin series and several of the Jack Reacher series, some random suspense novels and some mystery/lawyer novels, one or two Lincoln Rhyme books, the book upon which The Shooter movie was based (and its sequel), and some other novel about a sniper that was written by an ex SWAT sniper.

Several historical/bigographical/technical books inluding 1776, a biography of George Washington and another of Albert Einstein (asbout 20 pages remaining), a short history of the revolution, a book about of all the federal and state court cases touching on the 2nd Amendment, a history of the Federal Reserve Bank, a book about the design and testing of silencers, another book about the history of machine guns, a Glock armorour’s training guide, several business type books about the Scrum development process and Coping with Darwin (about business innovation – not evolution), a book about interface design priciples by Cooper, part of a book about data presentation by Edward Tufte, an electronic book about the underlying technology for digital photography, two wilderness survival guides, a book about how the body stores or metabolizes fat and other nutrients, and I suppose a few others I can’t recall right now.

Tons of magazine articles, American Civil War, Guitar World, Guitar One….ect

You should see the stack of books I read when I was homeschooled, ah…. those were the days.

Laura on August 22, 2007 at 6:23 PM

Was it the Evelyn Woods speed reading course? There are still links on google but it has been a long time since I heard it advertised. As with anything sold on the internet be sure to use the better business bureau online source to check on vendors.

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre

I didn’t really like that. Have you read The Scarlet Letter? It came out in the same year (1865?) and was also about a heroine facing adversity. Far superior in my opinion.

we conservatives somehow omitted any ’self help’ books. Why is that?
shooter on August 22, 2007 at 7:02 PM

I listed John Piper’s Don’t Waste Your Life. That’s one for AP – a much better read than CS Lewis. ;-)

I could have missed one if one is listed, but I think we conservatives somehow omitted any ’self help’ books.
shooter on August 22, 2007 at 7:02 PM

Dang! You’re right! Here is a list of the self-help books I have read:

High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
Her third book, Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
Godless: The Church of Liberalism

And when it comes out in October, I’ll be reading

If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans

There’s bound to be a lot of self-help in there!!!