Don’t jump to conclusions, just blame the Tea Party
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The experts in the media and in the blogosphere are offering us lots of speculation, disguised as fact, on the political persuasion of the newest mass killer to rise into infamy, Jared Lee Loughner.
His favorite books have been subject to major analysis by all the psychiatrists out there, maybe even a few real ones, and their interpretations are predictable. Any Rand’s “We The Living” brand him as a right-wing nutter, even though the story has a communist hero in an anti-communist book.
The “Communist Manifesto” by Marx, has him painted as a left-wing loony, this publication is not one of Groucho’s best, so all it shows is a lack of taste.
“Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland” prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Loughner was a heavy opium user. Adolf Hitler’s best seller ‘Mein Kampf” made the list, I’ve read it myself, but only the good bits, the second paragraph on page 35 is hilarious. Loughner wore black, so this makes him a far-right Nazi sympathizing drug user with left-wing tendencies.
“Animal Farm”, “Fahrenheit 451” and “Brave New World” suggest that along with 10s of millions of others, he liked books about oppressive regimes.
The only thing Jared Lee Loughner has in common with the Tea Party is that he is a crackpot. But, I wonder if a Muslim from Detroit had published on a Facebook page, a list of 20 Republican politicians with their images in crosshairs and one of them got shot . . .
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I haven’t read any of those books. What does that make me?? Good read by the way.
I’ve read each of those books, except Mein Kampf, where, like Holte, I just read the “good bits.” So that being said just where does that put me on the social scale?
As you suggest, one shouldn’t spend much time on that books list. It’s a distraction. I’ll bet he hasn’t read half the books. He just listed them to try to appear bright and well-read.
I am surprised that James Joyce’s Ulysses was not on his list, it’s the number one book people say they have read, but haven’t. I have read it by the way, the bit when the dog escapes from Alcatraz is particularly poignant.
or “Catcher in the Rye”