Just ordered the Bolton book on Amazon.

[MineralMan]

It could arrive next week or the week after. Amazon isn't accepting orders for Mary L. Trump's book yet.

[StarfishSaver]

1. I'm not giving that man a nickel of my money

I'll hear everything I need to know about the book through the media.

Or you.

[SidDithers]

43. +1...nt

Sid

[musette_sf]

2. I have a pre-order in for Mary's book

on Kindle.

[herding cats]

18. Same. Bolton can suck eggs for all I care.

He'll never get my money. He chose not to testify and to sell his story for a profit instead.

I'm not interested. 😑

[mrsv]

3. Why?

[MineralMan]

9. So I can read it. Why else?

[Goodheart]

4. There won't be many like you.

[avebury]

5. I am on the wait list for the

ebook at the library. I want to read it but really don't want my money going to him.

[panader0]

6. I find it interesting that it's already out there and that Mary Trump's book will be soon.

That must make spanky furious-er.

[sfstaxprep]

7. Money For A Traitor nt

[meadowlander]

8. All the juicy bits will make the news.

Meanwhile, not going to spend my hard-earned cash enriching a deeply unpatriotic asshole.

[MineralMan]

29. Actually, they won't. A few passages will be selected and

discussed by the talking heads on the cable news talk channels. The rest will not become part of the discussion. I will read the entire book and will have comments on things not being widely discussed, no doubt.

As for giving money to Bolton, I'm not all that concerned. At the low price for the hardback on Amazon, there's not enough money going to Bolton from one book to buy a decent coffee drink at Starbucks.

My library has many books in it that were written by scoundrels of one sort or another. That I own them and have read them has nothing to do with my opinions of the authors.

I do not rely on third parties to tell me what is in books. Instead, I read them.

[meadowlander]

46. The luxury to do that is a privilege. Enjoy it.

I didn't say I don't read books. I said I'm not going to read this book because frankly, John Bolton and anything he has to say isn't worth hours of my time.

The reason we have news is so that people like myself, who spend 100,000 hours a week at their jobs, can stay on top of the actually relevant information they need to perform their responsibilities as citizens.

I read the "top 8 insights from Bolton's book" article on CNN and honestly if "Trump thinks Finland is in Russia" made that list, how much more is there in the book that I actually need to know and talk about? We already know he's a moron. Stop giving him more bandwidth in your brain. We have important work we need to do and we need to be saving our time, attention and energy for it.

[themaguffin]

47. Not true. Pundits will read it and report on it. F Bolton. Not. One. Fucking. Dime.

[OverBurn]

10. I'll download the PDF file.....

[Cousin Dupree]

11. He's not worth a nickel of my money.

[Brother Buzz]

12. I'm waiting for the Amazon reviews to start rolling in

They may prove to be entertaining reading

[dixiechiken1]

13. I refuse to spend money on Bolton's book...

But I did pre-order Mary Trump's book. I sooooooo want sales of her book to dwarf Jr's.

[Yavin4]

14. Does it come with a fake mustache? n/t

[BlueSpot]

15. Fuck that shit

He had a chance to make a difference in December. He hid behind his lawyers' skirts to save his revelations for this book and the money he can make from it. He put his own self-enrichment WAY ahead of country. I will not give him a dime.

[KentuckyWoman]

16. I will probably read it but I won't spend money.

Don't begrudge you at all but it makes my teeth hurt to give any money to that guy.

[Xolodno]

17. DU Blasphemy!!!!!

Nah, I'm kidding.

Let me (us) know what you think of it. If its good, I'll order the ebook. Can't stand Bolton, but I do have a copy of the Communist Manifesto and Mien Kompf as reference. Even books by bad people are good reminders of what not to do.

[herding cats]

19. I won't purchase it.

I'll read it free, but he's not getting my money for profiting off a story he should have felt obligated to tell before Congress if he cared about our country.

[Raine]

20. Enriching that POS, no thanks! 👎 nt

[Demovictory9]

21. did you just break the law? or do you break the law when you read the book?

[hunter]

22. I'd rather watch porn.

[MineralMan]

30. No doubt you would.

I read a lot of political books, both by authors I respect and ones I do not. Books are about gaining information, in my opinion. I'd rather be informed than self-righteous and uninformed, frankly.

[hunter]

32. I'll trust others to read the book and report back if they find anything interesting.

Bolton won't get a penny from me.

We already know Bolton and Trump are rotten to the core.

I don't care to watch Bolton on his knees sifting through the ashes of the house he burned down seeking some pathetic fragment of his self-respect.

Bolton can go fuck off and die. I won't watch.

[MineralMan]

35. Fine. You will do as you think best.

I'm a person who wants first-hand knowledge where it's possible. I want to know what is in Bolton's book, so I will read it. I don't mind if he stops in at Starbucks and buys a coffee drink with the money he gets from my reduced-price book of his from Amazon.

You trust others to filter your information. I do not. I want to see the information for myself. So, I will wade through 500 pages of mostly boring reading to find that information. The media will focus on a few quotations from the book and discuss those endlessly. there is much more in there, no doubt, that doesn't lend itself to sound-bite-length quotes and excerpts.

I might post a few things here, but not many. I've already been insulted for simply buying the book. I don't really need more insults, frankly. But, i will learn from my slog through the book, just as I have learned from reading many other books by people with whom I strongly disagree.

You do you, but please allow me to do me without insult. Thanks.

[USALiberal]

50. That tells me all I need to know! Nt

[lame54]

23. 2 wrongs don't make a right

[Luciferous]

24. I'll just wait to hear the interesting parts

on MSNBC... I wouldn't give him any of my money.

[Steelrolled]

25. Good for you.

[betsuni]

26. I'm sad because Amazon doesn't ship books to my region anymore except in Kindle form.

Don't have Kindle. My list is getting long. Will wait to see about Bolton's book, but definitely Mary Trump's goes on the list. Others:

Sarah Kendzior, "Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America."

Eza Klein, "Why We're Polarized."

Paul Krugman, "Arguing with Zombies."

Ronan Farrow, "Catch and Kill."

Andre Leon Talley, "The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir"

David Chang, "Eat a Peach, A Memoir."

Bill Buford, "Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking."

Michael D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, "Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope."

Jonathan Kauffman, "Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat."

Adam Platt, "The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony."

Jeff Gordinier, "Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping. and Risking it All with the Greatest Chef in the World."

Betty Fussell, "My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir (At Table)."

Ivan Orkin, "The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider."

[MineralMan]

31. There are free Kindle reader apps for virtually every platform.

How they perform varies from platform to platform. My preference is to read them on a dedicated Kindle device. Sadly, my second generation Kindle has now bitten the dust, so I'm using a Kindle Fire these days. I prefer the old Kindle, but there it is.

[Tipperary]

27. I will not give him a cent.

Nor to any of them that crawl out of that rotten woodwork. Slimy little creature sold his soul.

[helpisontheway]

28. That coward is not getting a dime from me. Nt

[bigtree]

33. I agree with those asking folks to not purchase this book

...Bolton shouldn't profit off of this.

He waited out the entire impeachment process, refused to voluntarily appear before the House committees, and basically did next to nothing to stop any of what he outlines in his book. It's a cynical, money-making venture which doesn't deserve rewarding.

The entire book will appear somewhere for free, I'm satisfied reading excerpts in the press until then.

[hunter]

34. John Bolton: Ten biggest claims in his Donald Trump book

The presidency of Donald Trump has already generated a long reading list, but the latest offering from former National Security Adviser John Bolton has attracted more attention than most, given the author's high-ranking status and the nature of his claims.

His work - The Room Where It Happened - portrays a president ignorant of basic geopolitical facts and whose decisions were frequently driven by a desire for re-election.

Critics of Mr Trump have asked why Mr Bolton did not speak up during impeachment hearings, while the president himself has called his former top adviser on security matters "incompetent" and a "boring old fool".

--more--

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53089609

Not a penny...

[Ilsa]

36. Please consider donating your copy to your public library

after you've passed it around. If there is a waiting list to read the book, maybe your copy will prevent someone else from buying it.

[MineralMan]

38. I have been doing that for many, many years.

When I buy books like the Bolton book, I read it. Sometimes my wife also reads it. I keep it for a month or so, and then donate it to my local library, where it ends up on the shelves for others to read, either at my branch or at some other branch in the St. Paul library system.

I have a couple thousand books in my home library already, and have no desire to add more volumes to my collection. Most of the books I keep are reference books of some sort, or favorites that I will certainly reread at some point. Topical books of a time-limited nature, I read and then pass along. The library is the best place for them to go.

Current best-sellers are in high demand at local libraries, and most library systems are quick to get donated copies into circulation.

[Ilsa]

40. Man of my dreams!

LOL. My spouse tends to try to hang on to books forever instead of donating them. I have to push, hard, to help him see that his sentimentalism and acquisition of goods are creating a bigger and bigger need for space.

I try not to buy books, but borrow from our library. Our county has a fabulous library with subscriptions to fantastic research sources, really obscure stuff for a county system vs university.

[gratuitous]

37. For others, if you must order Bolton's book through Amazon

Please do it through an Amazon portal on a website you support (such as Eschaton). When you buy something from Amazon by going through an Amazon ad on a website, the site gets some of your money.

[dmr]

39. I pre-ordered it yesterday. I debated whether to buy it or not.

I decided to purchase it for two reasons. Besides wanting to read it, I consider it another piece of history to line my book shelves. It is something for the future generations to read.

I worry about Donald's presidency being whitewashed. I don't trust the RNC to whitewash this era to make them look better than they actually are. Make Donald, (and themselves) a better man, a better president, a real rock-solid patriot.

Throughout the 2000s, I made a digital Compendium of the Bush* era. It's about 6 gigs. I wanted to preserve for the future an era that I thought, at the time, was the worse time of modern history - then they tried to give us Sarah Palin! We ended up with the destroyer of Democracy, and all things I hold dear, Donald Trump.

Anyway, despite my decades long negative feelings for Bolton, history preservation is the primary reason I bought this book.

[Ilsa]

41. I worry about whitewashing as well.

I'm hoping tne only place for that will be his presidential library. Even typing that gives me the creeps.

[dmr]

42. I can't imagine what coloring books he'll stock in his library.

All kidding aside. I can't imagine a Trump library. None of it will be real or true.

But one thing for certain, they'll make it a puke-worthy shrine.

[Ilsa]

45. He has nothing to brag about. Instead he'll blame

Obama and Biden for his ineptitude. Then he'll blame immigrants for the border fiasco. China for COVID-19 and the recession. Antifa for everything else. There should be a constantly running gif of him stating, "I don't take responsibility at all."

[Paladin]

44. No money of mine to Mr. Moustache Rides. The fucking traitor.

I've hated Bolton for way too many years to change at this late date.

[rusty fender]

48. I look forward to reading your

analysis.

And thanks in advance for your your service

[SoonerPride]

49. The free Cliffs Notes versions provided by reputable press is good enough for me

that fuckstain doesn't get one cent of my money.

fuck him forever.