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another good book i read recently was "Deer Hunting With Jesus". I'd known about it for a while, but only just read it recently, finished it last night in fact. Maybe you've read it/heard about it? It's just some guy who ruminates on the subject of rednecks for an entire book. He's a good writer. He contemplates both the good things about rednecks (they love guns, hate da state and often are loyal to friends and family) and the bad things about rednecks (which most people already know about...but I think primarily the rabid patriotism and allegiance to an abstract America that keeps fucking them economically and sends them to die in pointless wars).

the author is a populist who is sympathetic to socialism, but he also wrote some very interesting things about gun culture in America, I thought.

interesting threads keep it up!

hey, did i ever tell you that I read that book "memoirs of an italian terrorist" fairly recently? I think you were the one who originally rec'd it to me...

It was pretty good. i liked how the narrator whined all the time about his life, and boredom, and how much his girlfriend irritated him, and then he'd casually mention the fact that he was involved in killing people, presumably somewhere in between playing pinball and soliciting prostitutes.

Actually I saw that Geographic issue at work and grabbed it. I really enjoy pop-sci magazines and national geographic, but I don't have any subscriptions, I just read them at other people's houses or when they are left at coffee shops.

Hey man, whenever you have time; http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?...cussionid=2757