Cure for a Redneck

[sampsonblk]

(aka "Trying to get to 1000 posts by Friday night.")

If you could force a redneck Bush supporter to read one book, which would you choose and why? This is assuming that the redneck in question could read, of course.

[mark11727]

1. DO NOT allow them to select the "Turner Diaries", tho...!

[Swamp Rat]

2. A very long palendrome...

... then way stand back and wait for his head to explode.

A lobotomy is another excellent cure for redneck-itis.

[drumwolf]

3. If I could start with one book,

I say start gradually. So nothing obvious like Michael Moore or Al Franken, or even investigative journalists like Sy Hersh or Greg Palast -- nothing that a freeper would be able to just dismiss as partisan "liberal propaganda."

So my pick would be "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. It's not obviously pro-Democrat or pro-left at face value, but it is as good a book as any to plant the first seeds of doubt and questioning in a Moron-American's mind, if he's open-minded and impressionable.

[freetobegay]

4. Pet goat

At least that would give them a one up on Bush.

[drhilarius]

5. "The Grapes of Wrath"

For obvious reasons.

[sampsonblk]

6. What obvious reasons?

I never read it. Clue me in.

[drhilarius]

8. Basically...

A novel set in the depression era that discusses social and economic injustice, as well as why the powerful have their power and how the powerless are kept so. In the more economically strapped parts of the south I think it would have resonance.

[miss_kitty]

10. I totally agree.

and if he/she had a hard time reading it-the movie is very powerful.

[qnr]

7. Johnathan Livingston Seagull

Easy to read. Pictures. Teaches you to expand your mind, follow your dreams rather than dreaming of being a follower, learning the true meaning of love and kindness, and so on.

Edit: http://suchit.net/inspiration/JonathanLivingStoneSeagull.html

[Duncan Grant]

9. "Credo" - William Sloane Coffin

http://www.pbs.org/now/society/coffin.html :thumbsup: