Let's Have Some Fun: Name a book LEAST likely to be read by Shrub*

[Sacajawea]

How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci :dunce:

[CanuckAmok]

1. Crime and Punishment

n/t

[goobergunch]

2. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (n/t)

[CanuckAmok]

3. The Little Engine Who Gave Up Coke and Became President

n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. Of course he'd read that. He's writing it himself.

It's his autobiography.

:evilgrin:

Then again, maybe Laura will have to help him work out the big words.

[camero]

4. Dude, Where's My Country

Any C.S. Lewis book would be second.

[terrya]

5. "Plato's Republic"

I remember when Marilyn Quayle used to say that her husband would try to tackle reading "Plato's Republic" every year. I don't think Shurb would even consider trying that.

Bush has said he hates reading....which automatically makes my loathing of him even more intense.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Lincoln at Gettysburg, Garry Wills

"Huh? Too tough for me. I don't get it." - GWB

[Bertha Venation]

30. your quote--is that a true quote?

Sounds like it could be.

[kodi]

7. aristotle's "ethics"

for real.

[Sacajawea]

15. Agree with you 100%, kodi

Ethics, indeed.

[kodi]

51. i get the impression bush thinks marcus aurelius is a halfback at UCLA

the man makes dan quayle look ingaged.

[markses]

39. Nichomachean or Eudemian?

Uh, I guess both. ;-)

[ikojo]

8. Wealth and Democracy by

former Republican Kevin Phillips...

[eileen_d]

9. Nader's book title came to mind

Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312284330/qid=1073182181/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/102-7234543-0164914?v=glance&s=books

[buff2]

10. Any book that's not a child's book

If it's not elementary level and doesn't have pictures in it.......he's not going to read it. The stupid bastard doesn't even read a newspaper,let alone a good intellectual book.

[Punkingal]

11. War and Peace...

Peace is not in his vocabulary, but he would love the war part.

[KCDem]

14. all the names would confuse him

Bush wouldn't read anything by a Russian author, that's for sure. Too many confusing names (in any given book, one character may be reffered to in 3 or 4 different ways). Too hard for the poor bastard.

[soothsayer]

12. The Holy Bible

that guy is a FRAUD

[Cleita]

13. That's easy. He's never read a book in the adult section

of the library.

[Pobeka]

16. Then his children couldn't be his?

Dubya would need instructions even for that simple task, sooooo...

OMG, they're Neal's children!

[alfredo]

18. Now Now, don't start any rumors.

grin

[Pobeka]

20. Oh, right. Thanks for that.

For a second I was also going to say Iraq had WMD and was going to blow up the Washington, D.C.

:crazy:
:)

[jimbo fett]

17. A dictionary?

[Darwin2002]

19. metamorphosis by kafka

he already is a cockroach!

[bleedingheart]

21. The ABC book for toddlers

I sincerely doubt he has read it...

[Digger]

22. "The Communist Manifesto"

Or anything else ever written by Marx or Engels.

[Sacajawea]

23. "The March of Folly" by historian Barbara Tuchman

Last summer I recalled that she had written a book with that title and it intrigued me (I had read several other books of hers - "A Distant Mirror: Life in the 14th Century" and "The First Salute" - and I had liked her style very much. She's very readable. She makes history come alive).

So I proceeded to read "The March of Folly", which has to do, in essence, with things that governments do DESPITE knowing that the acts they are engaging in are folly. The early chapters talk about the Trojan Horse (how dumb were the Greeks to take it within their walls?), the Renaissance Popes (whose acts of folly contributed greatly to the Reformation), and the American Revolution (couldn't ANYONE in England see how disastrous their policies were?). But it was the final chapter of the book, about Vietnam, which mesmerized me. As I read it, I kept saying "But that's JUST what they're saying about Iraq now!" That is, the lies the government kept pouring out on us back in the '60s are very similar to those that we were told late in 2002 and early in 2003.

I highly recommend this book, "The March of Folly", even if you only read the chapter about Vietnam.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

57. That DOES sound really interesting

I might try it. The whole Iraq war thing is so crazy when you think about all the people that kept warning against it, and especially the military and intelligence people that were so emphatic. And that was just one really stupid policy among so many others.

[Sacajawea]

25. Shameless kick

:kick:

[aQuArius]

26. It's STILL the economy, stupid!

A book he really, really shoulde read, but won't.

[zbdent]

27. Sadly, "The Count of Monte Cristo"

of course, the last name of the author, pronounced incorrectly (think Shawshank Redemption), fits W to a T.

[cosmicdot]

54. posted in wrong place

oops

[Generic Other]

28. Dante's Inferno

<snip>Many and varied sinners suffer eternally in the multi-leveled Malebolge, an ampitheatre-shapped pit of despair Wholly of stone and of an iron colour: Those guilty of fraudulence and malice; the seducers and pimps, who are whipped by horned demons; the hypocrites, who struggle to walk in lead-lined cloaks; the barraters, who are ducked in boiling pitch by demons known as the Malebranche. The simonists, wedged into stone holes, and whose feet are licked by flames, kick and writhe desperately. The magicians, diviners, fortune tellers, and panderers are all here, as are the thieves. Some wallow in human excrement. Serpents writhe and wrap around men, sometimes fusing into each other. Bodies are torn apart. When you arrive, you will want to put your hands over your ears because of the lamentations of the sinners here, who are afflicted with scabs like leprosy, and lay sick on the ground, furiously scratching their skin off with their nails. Indeed, justice divine doth smite them with its hammer.<snip> From the 8th Circle of Hell.

This is the level of hell Bush ended up in when I took the Dante Inferno Test in his name. I was surprised he scored this high.

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

[Bertha Venation]

29. seriously, I'm sure that he's never read

Truman David McCullough
The Jungle Upton Sinclair
The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy

I could go on, but why? I doubt the man has ever read any book for its own sake.

[terrya]

58. I doubt that he's read any of those, either.

Bush has admitted that he hates to read. I despise him for that alone.

[NoPasaran]

31. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"

By T.E. Lawrence

Apparently no one in the junta has.

[Zuni]

74. Weird---I am reading that right now!

It is sitting on my nightstand!

[northofdenali]

32. Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and

anything by real patriots!

[kdmorris]

33. The Lies of George W. Bush..Mastering the Politics of Deception

After all, why would he NEED to read it? He already knows all his lies.

[AlFrankenFan]

34. Any book

[jmowreader]

64. Oh, come on, he's read at least two

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Pet Goat

I don't think he's ever read Green Eggs and Ham because there are too many different words in it, or Horton Hears a Who, or The Sneetches and Other Stories.

Definitely not The Sneetches, because he's a Star-Belly Sneetch and we all know that Star-Belly Sneetches are better than those without stars on thars. (Or is it the other way around? I forgot.)

He might have read If I Ran the Zoo because he'd want to cage up a Nerd.

But other than that, zilch.

[AlFrankenFan]

66. i stand corrected

[WillyBrandt]

35. Prolegomena to any future metaphysics

by Kant.

[Blue-Jay]

36. "Government For Dummies"

the Cliff Notes version.

[SOteric]

37. On the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

[Kat45]

38. I can't think of any book that he WOULD be likely to read!

:-)

[daleo]

41. How about The Pet Goat

I hear it's quite riveting.

[FDRrocks]

40. Oh the Places You'll Go! By Suess...

b/c he couldn't

[daleo]

42. Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Although he might consider Confessions of an American Coke Snorter.

[OldSoldier]

78. That's Dubya's bio!

..

[solinvictus]

43. 1984

n/t

[sasquatch]

44. That's what I was going to say

[sasquatch]

45. Anything from Charles Darwin

[bobthedrummer]

46. Robert's "Rules of Order"

n/t

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

47. Two that I can think of

Nickled and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America By Barbara Ehrenreich

The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley

[Race4Peace]

48. Webster's Dictionary!

[ironflange]

49. Goodnight Moon, Popup Edition

Those popups can give him a bad scare when he's all tuckered out.

[proud patriot]

50. The United States Constitution and The Declaration of Independence

:D

[blondeatlast]

52. The Cat in the Hat--too advanced.

[Obamarama]

53. The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine

*

[cosmicdot]

55. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

by Al Gore

[AntiCoup2K4]

60. Ha, not only did Bush read that book, he WROTE it!

And I know that's true because Katherine Harris told me so! And next week, a 5-4 vote of the Supreme Court will require all future pressings of that book to credit George W. Bush as the author.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

68. LOL

[ChemEng]

56. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Gibbons (n/t)

[Enraged_Ape]

71. You mean the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and you're right

Shrub is making every single mistake that the Romans made just before their pathetic downfall. The Gibbons work is a classic in history, and it's unthinkable that a supposed Yale History Major is not familiar with this work.

[ChemEng]

80. You are right!!!...what was I thinking of???

[RebelOne]

59. The Bush Hater's Handbook.

[renegade000]

61. common sense

thomas paine

[onebigbadwulf]

62. The US Constitution

sure it's not a book, but he's still managing to piss on it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

63. The Hungry Hungry Catapillar

[Emboldened Chimp]

65. The Bible

:D

[watercolors]

70. My choice also

nt

[populistmom]

67. Curious George

Or another H.A. Rey favorite:

[scottcsmith]

69. Several titles come to mind

"The Book of Virtues," William J. Bennett.
"The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition," William Strunk Jr., et al.
"Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume One," Karl Jaspers.
"Silverado: Neil Bush and the Saving & Loan Scandal," Steven K. Wilmsen.

[101 Proof]

72. How about any book that has words...

longer than five or six letters?

[Spirochete]

73. Q Clearance

by Peter Benchley.

He reminds me of that book, sort of.

[Zuni]

75. How about 'the Guns of August'?

JFK read it and it helped keep him from moving too aggressivly in the Cuban Missle Crisis.

[Sacajawea]

76. Zuni..."The Guns of August" would be a perfect choice if he were to read

Barbara Tuchman won the 1963 Pulizter Prize for General Non-Fiction for that very book.

You might care to take a glance up at my post #23 above, where I mentioned another of her books.

Since having finished reading "The March of Folly", I decided I wanted to read ALL of her books (there are only 10 or so in all) in the order in which she wrote them, so first I read "Bible and Sword" (history of Britain's very long relationship with Palestine and how this relationship culminated in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which gave the Jews a homeland), and now I've just finished "The Zimmerman Telegram" (which is the story of what made Wilson FINALLY abandon his policy of pursuing peace and FINALLY pushed the U.S. into World War I). The very next book on my list is "The Guns of August."

By the way....Thanks to all of you DUers who contributed to the above thread. I enjoyed reading your responses, and one thread in particular got me thinking that it's high time I read Dante's "Inferno", if only to estimate which circle is my likely destination. Thanks again everyone! :)

[Iverson]

77. Up From Slavery - Frederick Douglass (n/t)

n t

[omshanti]

79. Gandhi's biography

You know, nonviolence, peace, and all that stuff...

[AlGore-08.com]

81. "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou

Or anything else by a non-white author, as far as that goes...