Recent Reading
Dec. 7th, 2009 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenI've been trying to make a dent in my to-read pile, and may not buy any new books until Christmas. Of course, for Christmas, I plan on getting more books.
Some stuff that I've read that has been deemed share-worthy:
1. Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal - One of the books looking at the increasing influence of the Christian hard-right on the Republican Party, and the effect it has had on the policies of the party. This one isn't so much a systematic look at the issue as a series of shared stories about the personalities and events involved. This is the first book by him I have read, but I quite enjoyed it.
On the Larry Craig situation: "With or without Craig, the Republican Party had, through its descent into paranoid homophobia, transformed itself into the country's biggest walk-in closet." It comes in the section of the book where he discusses the scandals surrounding David Vitter, Larry Craig, and Ted Haggard, and the various differences in how they were treated.
2. The Murder Business by Mark Fuhrman (yes, that Mark Fuhrman) - It looked like it would be interesting, and it was - in pieces. It was very uneven, and for every moment that he wrote something worth reading , there was another where he wrote something that made me go "Idiot". One of the subjects he discusses is the "missing white female syndrome", and that's treated fairly well, but then he sort of goes downhill when he gets on the OJ trial. I'm keeping it for now, but more as a bad example than anything else.
DV
Some stuff that I've read that has been deemed share-worthy:
1. Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal - One of the books looking at the increasing influence of the Christian hard-right on the Republican Party, and the effect it has had on the policies of the party. This one isn't so much a systematic look at the issue as a series of shared stories about the personalities and events involved. This is the first book by him I have read, but I quite enjoyed it.
On the Larry Craig situation: "With or without Craig, the Republican Party had, through its descent into paranoid homophobia, transformed itself into the country's biggest walk-in closet." It comes in the section of the book where he discusses the scandals surrounding David Vitter, Larry Craig, and Ted Haggard, and the various differences in how they were treated.
2. The Murder Business by Mark Fuhrman (yes, that Mark Fuhrman) - It looked like it would be interesting, and it was - in pieces. It was very uneven, and for every moment that he wrote something worth reading , there was another where he wrote something that made me go "Idiot". One of the subjects he discusses is the "missing white female syndrome", and that's treated fairly well, but then he sort of goes downhill when he gets on the OJ trial. I'm keeping it for now, but more as a bad example than anything else.
DV
