Originally posted by Trickster
I found Sophie's World a bit of a slog, really. You enjoying it?
Not really, it's a bit slow... Gaarder's writing style leaves a lot to be desired. I was expecting something different because of its reviews and I'm now reading purely for its crash course in philosophy.
Originally posted by Strangelove
I'm currently in the middle of two books:Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency by Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)
and The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution by Naftali Bendavid
both are excellent 313
Yeah, that book by Sen. Byrd sounds like a real-page turner. Moral hero - that's what I think of when I hear the name Robert C. Byrd....well, that and former KKK adherant. I sometimes marvel at the man's inner resources...I mean where does one find the moral courage to cast stones at an universally maligned president, when there are so many buildings left in West Virgina still to be identified and eponymously renamed?
Sigh...hopefully Sen. Byrd will serve several more consecative senate terms and continue to inspire us all with the same sense of strident self-righteousness and turgid meglamania that have characterized the post-presidential career of that other great bastion of American conscience - Jimmy Carter.
As to the other title, since when did the Democratic Party suffer from a lack of ruthlessness, calculated or otherwise? The Clintons are possibly the most adept Machiavellian maniupulators seen on the national stage in recent memory. Contrary to the book title's implied arguement, prior to their recent victories in the Senate and House, the chief thing keeping Dems out of political office, wasn't a lack of ruthlessness, but was rather a lack of composure (Howard Dean), and coherent message (John "Prevarication" Kerry).