Should I read Alan Colmes' book at the bookstore tomorrow?

[tinfoil tiaras]

Poll question: Should I read Alan Colmes' book at the bookstore tomorrow?

Okay, I go to the bookstore with my dad tomorrow as a part of our weekly visits. And something has posessed me (re-reading over "Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them" probably) lately to look up Alan Colmes' book on amazon and feel quite sympathetic towards him. Seriously. I feel so damn sorry for the guy, being surrounded by those Faux lemmings all the time (but I guess he wants to be :wtf:...masochist :crazy: ). He's practically Hannity's lapdog. :( So the question is, if I run out of other reading material, should I go to the Politics and Current Events section and pick up "Red White and Liberal" or not? I admit. I read a bit of it on amazon and it looked interesting :hide:

[LoZoccolo]

1. You could go to the library and read it for free.

A lot of political stuff gets dated; I don't think I've reread any political books that I've bought.

[tinfoil tiaras]

3. The bookstore is kinda like the library to me

I just pick up books off the shelf and read them. And then put them back (not really :) ).

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Look at some Howard Zinn or something instead.

[tinfoil tiaras]

4. I haven't heard of him...

Have I been under a rock or something? Haha.

Is he like Franken? Because Al Franken is like one of my favorites. Ever.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Not quite, he's not a humourous writer...

He a historian, but he's very well known for his progressive activism and advocacy. Kinda like Noam Chomsky but relatively less controversial. Pick up a copy of "A People's History of The United States." To quote Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting, it'll knock you on your ass. "Artists In Times of War and Other Essays" is a good read too, and short. (It's a small pamphlet with I think three or four essays.)

[tinfoil tiaras]

6. Okay. I'll see if Barnes and Noble has it tomorrow.

:) Thanks for the suggestion.

[Omphaloskepsis]

11. Really, you need to read "A Peoples History."

It was about 800 pages and I knocked it out in three or four days. You really should read it.

A+++ WOULD READ FROM SAME AUTHOR..
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[Redstone]

7. They won't appreciate you vomiting on their carpets. Unless you're a masochist like he is,

and actually enjoy his story.

Redstone

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. Hahahaha

Aw...I can see it now: "I'm a liberal. And I'm on Fox News: The Alan Colmes Story". Like a documentary or something :rofl:

Wow. I really need to go to sleep or something...:rofl:

*edit* Even better "Behind Hannity's Shadow: The Alan Colmes Story" :rofl: :rofl:

Sorry. I get like this late at night...

[RFKHumphreyObama]

9. I read his book in Borders (in Singapore of all places)

It’s a good read in parts –he basically argues the case for liberalism and puts forward some of the stuff that Franken and the other left wing political commentators have put forward about the Wellstone memorial and so on. He also reprints some of the hate mail he gets from conservative viewers and both the letters and some of the responses to them are hilarious! He does have a good sense of humour and it comes through in the book.

Unfortunately he ruins it by including all this stuff that makes him sound like he’s apologizing for being a liberal. For example he writes that he doesn’t think that Roger Ailes and the FAUX news channel is ideologically biased or else they wouldn’t have hired him. And he thinks George W Bush is a good man and he includes a whole chapter on what he agrees with conservatives with. He seems to dedicate a significant proportion to his book to distancing himself from the convictions he put forward in other parts of the book –which I find contradictory

Worth a read but not half as good as Franken or Mike Moore or heck, almost any other centrist/left political commentator

[tinfoil tiaras]

12. Thanks for the review!

Hahaha..I saw some the hate-mail parts on amazon. I just like books in general that feature hate mail (and the snark-tastic responces to it), like "Lies" by Al Franken did, for some reason...

[sakabatou]

10. Read it, loved it.

[tinfoil tiaras]

13. Barnes and Noble didn't have it

Either Alan Colmes must be some sort of HUGE best seller in the south (fat chance :crazy: ) or the book sales of his book were just so pathetic B&N had to take it off the shelves...they did have Sean Hannity though :puke:

I read this book called "Pledged" (it was about sororities...very interesting) instead. And a Rolling Stone.

[LynneSin]

14. Seriously, I'd read a trashy romance novel before I read that crap

But that's just me