Dude, Where's My Country

by Michael Moore | Nonfiction |
ISBN: 0446532231 Global Overview for this book
Registered by squirrel818 of Tafton, Pennsylvania USA on 2/23/2004
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9 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by squirrel818 from Tafton, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, February 23, 2004
I have decided to send this book out for others to read while I catch up on all the bookrings I have joined. Hopefully I will be ready to read it myself when it comes back to me. The order for this bookring is:
1. leapinglizzards - fort myers,fl
2. minx2012 - uk
3. candyfloss - uk
4. miss-r - uk
5. cable - uk
6. brewster13 - winnipeg,mb canada
7. gill846- victoria,bc
8. feathersong - sellersville,pa
9. michaeljl - portland,or
10. hh88-fl,usa
11. back home to me in nebraska

Journal Entry 2 by LeapingLizzards from Fort Myers, Florida USA on Sunday, March 21, 2004
Recieved this in the mail yesterday, received a book from another ring the day before, will get to this as soon as I finish the other. Thanks!

Journal Entry 3 by LeapingLizzards from Fort Myers, Florida USA on Friday, April 16, 2004
This book really makes you think. My husband and friend read it while I was finishing up two other bookrays. Both republicans, they found it informative and were impressed with his documentation, but put the book down once he began giving his own opinions.

It made me want to become much more politically active.

Tomorrow, it will be on it's way to the UK

Journal Entry 4 by LeapingLizzards at By Mail in Mail, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Friday, April 16, 2004
Released on Friday, April 16, 2004 at ... by mail :) in Sent to a fellow BookCrosser, Bookring Controlled Releases.

Journal Entry 5 by minx2012 on Saturday, May 22, 2004
Received in the mail this morning.
It's the birthday of one of my best friends next week, and we're celebrating by going to the pub for much fun and no doubt heated debate. So I'm going to put this at the top of my TBR pile, in order that I have fresh ammo for the inevitable 'what is the world coming to?' portion of the evening.

Journal Entry 6 by minx2012 on Saturday, May 29, 2004
This is the blog entry I wrote about Dude...

Some things make me very angry.
I know that in order to remain content, I shouldn't get into arguments about animal testing, fundamentalist religions, abortion or women's rights in general.
I know that at work I should just blank out any items about 'terror' as opposed to any particular terrorist group if I'm to get through a day at work without trashing several computers.
So I also know that I really shouldn't read Michael Moore's books.
However, this week, after I get home from my late shifts, I've been reading his latest. This has meant, that despite being dog-tired, I have been alternately foaming rabidly at the mouth and piddling myself laughing. I know the people who read his books are just like me - leftist liberals who also get exceedingly annoyed just contemplating what That Idiot is doing to the world - and that anyone who disagrees with Moore's view is unlikely to read the whole of the book. But as well as having the ability to get me even more riled about Bush than I usually do, he's funny, intelligent, and a patriot in the true sense of the word - and if slightly raised blood pressure is the price for being slightly better informed about the real evil in the modern world, I'm willing to put up with that.

Journal Entry 7 by Candyfloss from Leeds, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Apologies for not logging the fact that this book arrived safe and well sooner. I was sent overseas with work at v short notice and am only just back and getting my life organised again.

I read the book in 24 hours and am ready to send it on to miss r. Wil post my review tonight.


Journal Entry 8 by Cable from Carlisle, Cumbria United Kingdom on Friday, October 8, 2004
Just got back from a 3-day gruelling course which left me drained. When I walked in the door I found this sitting and it made me feel a whole lot better. :-)

Journal Entry 9 by Cable from Carlisle, Cumbria United Kingdom on Monday, November 29, 2004
This is certainly up to Michael Moore's usual standard. It was both interesting to read and a real eye-opener.

Journal Entry 10 by gill846 from Victoria, British Columbia Canada on Thursday, December 16, 2004
This arrived today. All I can say is, great, just what I need at Christmastime, a book that's gonna make me angry and upset about where the world is going....! I've wanted to read this for awhile, thanks for sharing!

Journal Entry 11 by gill846 from Victoria, British Columbia Canada on Monday, December 27, 2004
I hate to say it, but I simply COuLD NOT finish this book. It was making me too upset. When I saw Fahrenheit 9/11, it was before the US election. I remember thinking how great Michael Moore was because he would be remembered as having brought about great changes. Then Bush got re-elected, and I was in complete shock. You see, as a Canadian, it never occured to me that the Americans I knew, and the parts of the US which I had visited, were ALL on the same side of the fence. It never occured to me until I saw that big red and blue map on TV that night that the places where I had not been, where I did not know people, almost entirely AGREED with this lunatic running their country. HUH???

Anyway, after that huge shock, reading Moore right now is just too painful. I'm passing this book on to the next person. Thanks for sharing, and to all you Americans who feel the same way after reading this, I hope someday you are able to get your country back! I'd say that my prayers are with you, but that is such an extreme-right thing to say nowadays...

Journal Entry 12 by FeatherSong from Sellersville, Pennsylvania USA on Thursday, February 3, 2005
Recieved in the mail yesterday. Looking forward to reading it as soon as I finish my current book...

Journal Entry 13 by FeatherSong from Sellersville, Pennsylvania USA on Sunday, February 20, 2005
Finally finished this today, after having to put it down several times for a few days. While I do believe many of the same things Michael Moore seems to believe in, and while I do wonder about this country and how to stop it moving in the direction it is heading, I was mostly turned off by the way it was presented in this book. Perhaps its because the 2004 is past, and we're in for another round of Bush. I certainly heard all of the points Moore made over and over again during the election - to the point where I eventually had to just turn off my tv and radio.

More than anything, this book made me feel stuck. I voted, and beyond that, I feel like I really can't do anything to improve things here. And this book just made me more mad about many of the same issues - war, health insurance, oil greed.

I know to expect over-the-top from Michael Moore, and I really enjoyed it in Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine,but this book was just too much for me.

Journal Entry 14 by michaeljl from Portland, Oregon USA on Saturday, February 26, 2005
Received today in the mail. Will read and pass it on.

Journal Entry 15 by hh88 from Miami, Florida USA on Tuesday, April 19, 2005
I'm about half way through.
Really entertaining. They has makes a lot of good points.
I received the book a few weeks ago.

Thanks, by the way.
I'll return it soon.

hh88, Miami, FL

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