Dude, Where's My Country
9 journalers for this copy...
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read the book in 24 hours and am ready to send it on to miss r. Wil post my review tonight.
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. :-)
This is certainly up to Michael Moore's usual standard. It was both interesting to read and a real eye-opener.
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!
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...
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...
Recieved in the mail yesterday. Looking forward to reading it as soon as I finish my current book...
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.
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.
Received today in the mail. Will read and pass it on.
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
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