Anybody read Krugman's The Unraveling?

[TNDemo]

Worth the $$?

[SoCalDem]

1. I ordered it for my trip

but have not recieved it yet... If you are not in a hurry, I'll report on it when I get back :)

[TNDemo]

2. Not any real hurry.

How long will you be gone? Going somewhere fun??

[SoCalDem]

7. Tahiti.. We leave Oct 2 and return Oct 11

I am soooooooo dreading SEVEN and a HALF HOURS on the plane.:(

But I guess the desitnation will be worth it..and then the return home will be worth it to see all my furry babies again :)

[TNDemo]

11. Man, I am so jealous.

You gotta tell us what Tahiti is really like when you get back. Oh yeah, and the book.

[RobertSeattle]

3. It's a compendium of prior articles

So if you've been a loyal NYT Krugman reader you probably could skip except for the introduction. He also grouped the articles into logical groupings rather than chronological.

It's one of those books that I can't read before I go to bed since I can so frickin mad - How Bush took this great thing Clinton gave him and destroyed it is truly amazing. Americans have truly been duped.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. I have read all of Krugman's columns

but I bought it anyway for two reasons. First to have a nice collection for reference purposes, and second to support financially one of the few truth tellers out there in the mainstream media.

[LynneSin]

5. No, but Krugman kicked some serious butt on Bill Maher's Real Time

It was him, Jesse Ventura and Betsy Hart. Who the hell is Betsy Hart other than a red-headed shrill for Fox News. I thought Klugman, who looked like a real nerd next to funky looking Betsy and Ass-Kicking Jesse but it seemed that Jesse and Paul made mince meat of this neo-con idiot. Paul was getting the best response from the Audience. For that reason alone I'll probably buy his book!

[ikojo]

8. I thought Jesse V came across as a right-winger

as well....he seemed to regurgitate RW lies about taxes and price controls on farmers. Paul so much wanted to set right the misinformation that Jesse V was spouting about the government setting the highest price a farmer can charge for a given crop but Bill Maher really didn't give him the opportunity.

I am also way tired of Bill Maher saying Dems and others need to get over the Y2K election....no way..it was a Supreme Court orchestrated coup and we need to remember that.

[SoCalDem]

9. Jesse is just a blowhard..

He has always "spoken his mind", but then some of his ideas are just plain NUTS !!

He is probably closer to libertarian in his personal philosophy..

[Richardo]

6. I'm getting it on Thursday -

It'll be a discounted staff rec by Monday....

[Punkingal]

10. I just ordered it....

from Half.com, because my hubby looked at it at the bookstore and said it seemed like a very good book.