The boss lady gave me a $30 Barnes and Noble gift card

Which piece of progressive literature should I invest it in?

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rocknation

The Last Juror was awesome.. but then so was, A Painted House.

Book by: JOHN GRISHAM

THE LAST JUROR

In 1970. One of Mississippi’s more colorful
weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times,
went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay
of many, ownership was assumed by a twenty-
three-year-old college dropout name Willie
Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim
until a young mother was brutally raped and
murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt
family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome
details, and his newspaper began to prosper.

The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before
a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The
trial came to a startling and dramatic end when
the defendant threatened revenge against the
jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they
found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life
in prison.

But in Mississippi in 1970, “life” didn’t necessarily
mean “life,” and nine years later Danny Padgitt
managed to get himself paroled. He returned to
Ford County, and the retribution began.

.........................................

Book by: John Grisham

A Painted House

The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a good crop.

Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that’s never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.

For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.

A Painted House is a moving story of one boy’s journey from innocence to experience.

read it, since this is as relative as they come to what's gone wrong with this country, or perhaps Jimmy Carter's new book, "Our Endangered Values," which he said is the only one about politics, of the 20 books he's written, and is a best-seller. If you've heard him speak, recently, you know that he's been brutally critical of the Bush* administration.:-)

I'd also do it through The Animal Rescue Site, if you're ordering on-line. For every dollar you spend, they provide a bowl of food for a homeless animal and Barnes & Noble is one of their sponsors. To find Barnes & Noble, click on Merchants Who Help, at the bottom of the column on the left. Barnes & Noble is at the top left. Happy reading and happy holidays...:hi:

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

anyone?

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rocknation

anything translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Nikolai Gogol or Tolstoy would be good, too

There's tons of quality progressive literature on the internet for free.

A good novel on the other hand...

"The Truth - With Jokes" is funny and informative. :-)

my husband heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago that Al Franken was going to be in town (Atlanta) to sign his new book. He thought he'd run over to the bookstore after work and get me a signed copy for Christmas. As he was driving over, he was thinking that since Georgia is so red, there probably wouldn't be many people there and he was feeling kinda sorry for Al. Then he got there and there were hundreds of people. He bought a book but didn't wait to get it signed. I thought it was so cute that he didn't realize how many liberals would show up. He really thought it was going to be just him and Al.

But he's forgetting that my favorite president is from Georgia...:D

:D

The irony is astounding. :evilgrin:

the only irony there is that you'd be buying a progressive book and the profits would be funding the neocons.

Trust me, in 20-30 years you'll realize it was the best investment you've ever made.



And just in case also get your hands on this one, you never know!

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rocknation

that is, if you don't own it already

I got "Our Endangered Values" for Christmas -- it's good so far. :hi:

i'd be real tempted to spend it on a loompanics book on how to convert my weapon to an automatic and hose down the next office party, ok, i wouldn't really, i'd just think about doing it

i hope she also gave you a real bonus

Loompanics? Are you truly a liberal? What about 25 ways to kill someone with this catalogue? Or Do It Yourself Dentistry?

Gods, I have ordered so many books from them :)

Khash.

PO who wrote the lions share of good protest songs during the '60s. Either I Ain't Marchin' Anymore or All the News That's Fit to Sing. When you have both of these, I'd highly recommend his A&M more singer/songwriter stuff.

Others that really get it for me are Pierce Pettis's Chase the Buffalo if you can find it. It's a great cd, full of biblical underpinnings and world view expanding songs that are remininsent of, say, Carson McCullers' short stories. Also, Handful of Earth from Dick Gaughan which was voted as the best folk music album of the '80s by Folk Roots magazine, the world's pre-emininet folk and ethnic music magazine. Soul of a Man by Bruce Cockburn is another of those soul expansion albums, for me. I trust you have a good representation of early Dylan.

Wednesday AM kick

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rocknation

If you do decide to investigate that Bruce Cockburn cd, it's called Nothing But a Burning Light. That's a phrase from the song Soul of a Man.

I bought 6 books for $30 this past week at Barnes and Noble, one was even a full price book. I bought Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire (the full priced book), Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning by Viktor Frankl, How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed Human History by Erik Durschmied, and One Spirit (a collection of three stories) by Paulo Coelho.
Some books are clearance for a reason, of course, but often there is good stuff that you might be interested in reading for a low price.

my boss gave me a 5 buck starbucks card :/