Bush's Summer Reading List

[joemurphy]

<http://www.booktv.org/misc/081706_bush.asp >

Supposedly 20 books read since June.

He likes mysteries and the Flashman books.

[Double T]

1. books on cassette or cd?????

[Kutjara]

2. Who the hell do they think they're fooling?

Bush doesn't have the attention span to read half these books or the vocabulary to read the other half.

I can just see him sitting down to read Hamlet. Oh suuuuuure.

[Momgonepostal]

3. Hamlet and MacBeth

I highly doubt that.

[joemurphy]

12. My thought on Shakespeare was 60 is late in life to finally be

getting to them. We read Macbeth in high school. Also Camus' The Stranger

[Jim__]

24. I read Hamlet and Macbeth in high school.

I also read them this year. Once in high school is hardly sufficient for Shakespeare. But, I still don't believe bush read them.

[loves_dulcinea]

25. i agree

i've read hamlet 5 or 6 times and come away with new detail each time.
richard the third about 3 or 4 times. still love to hate that man.

[Lisa]

29. maybe Jon Stewart was onto something -- Bush finishing Grade 9?

Other DUers have noted that the Camus book is often used in high school lit classes (one of the required texts in my French course was one of Sartre's existentialist novels, though of course Bush would probably not take that particular elective!).

Maybe he is using Intelligent Design to try to get out of dissecting the fetal pig in Biology!

[karlrschneider]

27. Here's how Chimp remembers Hamlet's soliliquy:

To tee, or not to tee--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the fairway to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous bad lies
Or to take arms against a sea of bogies
And by opposing end them. To lie, to slice--
No more--and by a mulligan to say we end
The handicap, and the thousand natural hazards
That par is heir to. 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To divot, to hook--
To whiffle--perchance to cheat: ay, there's the rub,
For in that nineteenth hole of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal scorecard,
Must give us pause. Or a new caddy.

[AlCzervik]

4. As if!

[ThomWV]

5. No Man Could Read So Well And Speak So Poorly

The proof is in the pudding, as the old folks used to say.

[ComerPerro]

6. More like read to him. And, shouldn't he be working?

[Tanuki]

7. "Reading list"

It doesn't say that he actually read them!

[Benhurst]

8. Give the man a break.

He hasn't finished reading My Pet Goat yet.

[Cocoa]

9. I wonder if Bush has seen this list?

he might find it interesting.

[shugh514]

10. Just more props

Bush reads books while he eats plastic turkey.

[kentuck]

11. Did he finish "My Pet Goat" already...

The man is amazing, I tell ya'...

[madame defarge]

13. I wish he'd read the Constitution!!! n/t

[saracat]

14. This is so blatantly dishonest it must be a joke. No one esp. an

illiterate reads Hamlet and Macbeth as "summer reading'!

[Olney Blue]

15. Oh? No "Fiasco" on the list?

[Swamp Rat]

16. Bull shit!

He can barely read a 5 minute speech! ... Macbeth

[joemurphy]

17. The two Flashman books are kinda racy for his born-again

fanbase. Maybe KKKarl didn't approve this.

[soothsayer]

18. I wish to god the press would quiz him on each book

[mainer]

19. Hmmm. 25 authors. Only one of them a woman.

I guess women write stuff that's too hard for his little brain.

[Jeroen]

20. And he reads all his books upside down to keep himself sharp

[flordehinojos]

21. What a farce!

As in, they are stuffing the sale of george w. bush again--just like they did with the codpiece.

also, what a face, as in: Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

[eleny]

22. Cliff Notes

[countingbluecars]

23. Too funny! eom

[Kip Humphrey]

26. Who reads them to him? Condi?

[Lisa]

28. as long as he's reading John D. MacDonald ...

... I wish he'd read "Barrier Island" -- which exposes sordid development deals along the Gulf Coast (mentioning many areas which later got flattened by Katrina). MacDonald saw what was coming, all right.

[Mabus]

30. I think he has read each of those titles- so shoot me

I just don't think he's actually read the books behind the titles.

[Flying Dream Blues]

31. They're slipping...if you're going to just make up some sh**,

try to make it somewhat believable. Harry Potter is a stretch, much less MacBeth.