Book Report
So lately I’ve been getting through a lot of books. Mostly books on tape, but not all of them.
So, much like
- The Obama Nation
I am going to do some book reports. Maybe reading my review/thoughts will encourage some of my readers to check out the books.
First we’ll start with
- An Inconvenient Book
by Glenn Beck. (Book on Tape)
As far as narrators go sometimes you win (
- Harry Potter
’s narrator) and sometimes you lose (
- Lord of the Rings
,
- Fahrenheit 451
) and this time I won. Glenn Beck is actually a radio guy so of course you’d assume he’d read his own book and keep my attention.
This was a political book that was inspired by Al Gore’s drama “An Inconvenient Truth”. Some of this book was interesting, some was not, but it was a good read. Just a word of warning, he’s very conservative and honest about it. He has problems with Keith Olberman claiming he’s a journalist when he’s so proudly liberal and then defends himself by saying he’s an entertainer, not a journalist. I see the point, but I never really considered Keith a journalist.
Most interesting point: We’ve had a global cooling in 1924, warming in 1935, heating in 1974, and again we’re in global warming. These claims were all reported on by the NY Times, Newsweek, and Time Magazine. Does that mean we shouldn’t halt going green? Not at all, but it does mean that we shouldn’t all be writing our obituaries or overreacting or certainly not crowning Al Gore, journalist apparently turned scientist, Best Man in the World for his movie.
Some other topics of discussion in his book:
Pedophiles
Poverty/Crime
Capitalism
Radical Islam
Minimum Wage
and then some non-political themed topics like family and wife stuff
I would recommend this to Conservatives or Liberals that want a good idea of general themes in the Republican Psyche. The “Why” they think that, not just “what” do they think.
Good read. I give it 8 Stars out of 10.
2 comments December 16th, 2008