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"In 2007, Obama gave $26,270 to Rev. Wright's church"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

You could watch library checkouts as a loose proxy for what's actually being read in the US. If you want ideas recorded as text, why, they give those away for free at the library - not to mention everywhere else. If you want an objet d'status, you go to Borders.

There might be some marginal exceptions, truly mass market stuff like Harry Potter that gets people in a consumer lather, but otherwise I'd bet it holds.

4/19/08, 3:08 AM

Blogger Jim O'Sullivan said...

Hey! I finished both of the Hawking books that I started to read, though doing so wasn't easy. Both of them started with very interesting, accessible premises, and then move into utterly impenetrable etherea. Much like this comment.

4/19/08, 10:06 AM

Blogger Ron Guhname said...

Steve,

Clinton thinks he's Whitman:

OUT of the cradle endlessly rocking,
OUT of the mocking-bird’s throat, the musical shuttle,
OUT of the Ninth-month midnight,
OVER the sterile sands, and the fields beyond, where the child, leaving his bed, wander’d alone, bare-headed, barefoot,
DOWN from the shower’d halo,
UP from the mystic play of shadows, twining and twisting as if they were alive,
OUT from the patches of briers and blackberries,
FROM the memories of the bird that chanted to me,
FROM your memories, sad brother—FROM the fitful risings and fallings I heard,
FROM under that yellow half-moon, late-risen, and swollen as if with tears,
FROM those beginning notes of sickness and love, there in the transparent mist,
FROM the thousand responses of my heart, never to cease,
FROM the myriad thence-arous’d words,
FROM the word stronger and more delicious than any,
FROM such, as now they start, the scene revisiting....

4/19/08, 10:18 AM

Anonymous Martin said...

"Obama's tax returns showed that he made $4.2 million last year, most of it ($3.9 million) a result of profits from his best-selling books."

Wait a minute. He made $3.9 million from his books? What's a hard-back book run, $20? And what's the going rate for royalties, 15%? That comes to $3 a book. Did he really sell 1.3 million books in 2007? And that's assuming their hardbacks. It would be considerably more than that if they were paper-backs.

Wouldn't that put him up there with the kings of the check-out stand bookracks - Clancy, King, and, well, whoever it is nowadays? And as Steve has demonstrated, obviously not that many people have actually read Obama's books, so what gives?

Did someone buy up crates of his books, which now sit, unread, in some warehouse? Did someone just pay him a bribe, excuse me, I meant.....a generous advance?

4/19/08, 12:39 PM

Anonymous Josh? said...

Ya cant beat Nixon's "I was born in the house my father built..." (sniffle...)Great unread books:except for "Fear of Flying"(which was unreadABLE but I still,like most Americans,ground my way through it because the cover had a semi-naked woman on the cover),except for that,I'd say EVERY book by Erica Jong. Most political autobiographies are sleep inducing.

4/19/08, 2:04 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shit, Obama deserves the presidency.

He is one of few African Americans who pays a shit-loads of tax (33% of his income) and we haven't heard a squeak out him about how unfair it it.

4/19/08, 4:37 PM

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