I Wish More Here Actually Took Some Time To READ SOMETHING

[matcom]

we would ALL be better off

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/081664179X/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-2196205-7933643#reader-link

[ridgerunner]

1. well, I read

Dude, Where's My Country yesterday and I'm going to read Mudering McKinley today

[pnutchuck]

2. Sorrows Of An Empire

by Geofrey Chaumers is good also. It's also part of Michael Moore's recommended reading list.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. My town's phonebook.

Things are boring here and I was on the toilet. ;-)

Actually, I was reading about the ryuha of koryu kobudo last night.

[Racenut20]

4. I wanted to read, but

My libriarian told me she would have to report me to John Ashcroft if I checked out "My Pet Goat" again. One would think it would be on the preferred reading list in Florida.

[gottalickbush]

5. Midnight in the garden of good and evil

and a pirate book---something about junior taking over a country.

[shesemsmom]

6. I recently read Bill Clinton's book

and it took months. Just last night I finished reading. Edwards four trials and now I'm back to true crime tonight. Or maybe start a new Cromwell book. I don't know. I think I've had enough if reality

[Cheswick2.0]

7. I have not read it but I would love to

I went to Camp Wellstone in Philly last winter. It was a great weekend.
Matcom, I think you would love to attend one of their trainings. Then I think you should run for office. Forget the cautious DNC/DLC model that says only run for safe seats and then be as republican as possible. We will never take back congress by being cautious. I think you would be a natural. You have convictions.

[nostamj]

8. i read at least one book a week....

latest 'political' recommendation....?

LOSING AMERICA by Robert Byrd.

[floridaguy]

9. What if we did an online book exchange?

I've purchased so many political books, and it sucks to see them sitting on the shelves. Now I don't think if some of us shared our books with each other, it would really hurt our progressive authors.

For intance, I have the Clinton book and Keilor's Homegrown Democrat.
How much could it cost to mail them to someone who would actually read them?

Any thoughts? :shrug:

[Donna Zen]

10. Give the books away or at least share!

All of the janitors where I work have now read Byrd's book. They keep it on my desk and read while on breaks. It made a difference. I also give books as gifts and loan them.

[floridaguy]

11. They'd get dusty, because I live in Repugnant Hell! (n/t)

[Donna Zen]

19. I live in Red'sville

In a very red county such as mine, looking for the few who are willing to take a chance on knowledge can make a difference. My co-workers all have kitchen tables.

[pss]

12. I just finished...

"The Philosopher's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Change the World" by Richard Watson

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1567920845/qid=1101569146/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8780842-8900905?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

And started "A Brief History of the Human Race" by Michael Cook.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393052311/qid=1101569307/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-8780842-8900905

Oh yeah... and "The Little Earth Book" by James Bruges, published by The Disinformation Company in between those two.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0972952926/qid=1101569494/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/102-8780842-8900905


Let me tell ya, we are one fucked up little species! But I love us anyway...

[Township75]

13. We would all be better off, if more people here...

whiped their ass after taking a dump.

[riverwalker]

14. Send them to soldiers

www.booksforsoldiers.com

[THUNDER HANDS]

15. i read that in a barnes and nobles once

just sat down and read the whole thing in like 2 hours. Very good read.

[proudbluestater]

16. Just purchased three book from Barnesandnoble.com

Worse than Watergate by John Dean (about THIS crooked adm.)
Right-wing media propaganda something something
Book by Helen Thomas regarding her years as a correspondent

Just doing my part...

[AspenRose]

24. Was it The Republican Noise Machine by David Brock?

I recently finished his "confessional" Blinded By the Right.

Now I'm reading "Secrets of the Baby Whisperer." Sorry, it's not provocative or sexy or political, but I'm seven months along and need to catch up on reading for baby. :-)

One more week and school's out! Yay!

[Pirate Smile]

26. Have you read "The Girlfriends Guide to Pregnancy"? It is good and

realistic. It includes the details they don't normally put in books and it is funny.

[AspenRose]

27. One of my friends recommended it

I'll see if the library has it

[bush_is_wacko]

17. I have read a lot of things

The best explanation about what needs to be changed and why is Ishmael, by Daneil Quinn. the book is fictional, but the ideas are not! It's an easy read. I read it the first time in less than 24 hours. I just couldn't put it down! There are several others I would recommend AFTER you read that one.

[212demop]

18. I read for a living

4 or 5 books a week, no skimming, copious notes.

Thank you, thank you, no applause- the work is reward enough (the money sure isn't!)

:)

[calimary]

20. Start spreading the George Lakoff's books around

from Amazon.com or his own think tank - the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley, CA. "Don't Think of an Elephant," for one. Mine's on order - can't wait til it gets here.

Also see the "Frame the Debate Forum" elsewhere here on DU. VERY energizing. Great calcium supplements for the spine.

[AgadorSparticus]

21. i'm going back to fictions soon. need some laughs and escape.

[CatWoman]

22. Mat

there are some folk here who don't even READ and COMPREHEND threads before going half cocked and hurling bombs.

And you expect them to read BOOKS???

[matcom]

23. hehheh

you are the FIRST to "get" the meaning of this thread. it took all day. :D

x(

sad really. but i just KNEW YOU would 'get it'

thankfully, there are a FEW os US left (on the "left" as it were)

:*

[CatWoman]

25. *SMOOCH*

:D

F'ing MORANS!!!!!

:D

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

28. I just got done reading

"Hoax: Why Americans Buy White House Lies" by Nicolas Von Hoffman (VERY good and I highly recommend it) and the Clinton autobiography.

Now working on Dante's Inferno, trying to figure out which ring of hell is reserved for bush. Looks like #7, at least. Pretty bad one.

[Sugarbleus]

29. Reading two political books now...

*Secrecy & Priviledge..by Robert Parry

*Lost Ground; Welfare Reform, Poverty, & Beyond...by Randy Albelda and Ann Withorn

So MANY books out there, so little time.