Originally Posted by Bomm Bastic

I hear ya. I often read books on subject matters that I don't agree with or author's opining in contradiction to my own beliefs. Ya need to know the counter-argument before you can criticize it - which is what Dakkster is getting at.

I am amazed when people - seeing you hold a book - are so quick to assume you share the viewpoint. "Oh I can't believe you're reading that"....I get that a lot.

My last five books were:
The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right by Andrew Sullivan (Oct 9, 2007)

Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America by John Avlon and Tina Brown (Feb 23, 2010)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (Apr 6, 2009) - note: didn't really like this book, despite the author being one of my fav thinkers of the world. The book mirrored an angry rant more than a cogent argument.


God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero-HarperOne- (Jun 1, 2010) - I agreed with the overall premise, but it came across as somewhat naive to me (ie why can't we all just get along)

Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Jefferson (Aug 15, 1984) - I am a deist. Who knew?


My next three are:
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy by Bruce R. Bartlett (Feb 21, 2006)

The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward by Bruce R. Bartlett (Oct 13, 2009)

Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past by Bruce R. Bartlett (Jan 8, 2008)