WTF????? Bill Clinton's Favorite Books WTF????

[Rakhmetov]

Is everyone STONED or am I?????? WTF?????????

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/21/politics/main585068.shtml

This cheap imperialist liberal should not be reading some of these GREAT books.


"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Maya Angelou.

"Meditations," Marcus Aurelius.

"The Denial of Death," Ernest Becker.

"Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963," Taylor Branch.

"Living History," Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Lincoln," David Herbert Donald.

"The Four Quartets," T.S. Eliot.

"Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison.

"The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century," David Fromkin.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

"The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes," Seamus Heaney.

"King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa," Adam Hochschild.

"The Imitation of Christ," Thomas a Kempis.

"Homage to Catalonia," George Orwell.

"The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis," Carroll Quigley.

"Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics," Reinhold Niebuhr.

"The Confessions of Nat Turner," William Styron.

"Politics as a Vocation," Max Weber.

"You Can't Go Home Again," Thomas Wolfe.

"Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny," Robert Wright.

"The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats," William Butler Yeats.

[RedAnarchist]

This cheap imperialist liberal should not be reading some of these GREAT books.

We should ban people like him from reading certain books?

I think what you're trying to say is, why has he apparently read these books yet not taken anything from them?

[Astarte]

From the title of this thread I was expecting to see the Grundrisse or something on the list... :laugh:

[Ocean Seal]

The sad thing is that he probably interprets them as a liberal. As in they should vote to change things. Voting will destroy poverty/ racism and so on. :laugh:

[Comrade J]

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Absolutely INCREDIBLE book, probably my favourite novel of all time. But it, or at least read reviews (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hundred-Solitude-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/014103243X).

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'
Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and his strong-willed wife, Ursula, have started their new life. As the mysterious Melquiades excites Aureliano Buendia's father with new inventions and tales of adventure, neither can know the significance of the indecipherable manuscript that the old gypsy passes into their hands. Through plagues of insomnia, civil war, hauntings and vendettas, the many tribulations of the Buendia household push memories of the manuscript aside. Few remember its existence and only one will discover the hidden message that it holds...