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Book club

by DougJ|  December 6, 20115:11 pm| 25 Comments

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I have settled on Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin” for our next book club. I am about halfway through and I’ve learned a lot already.

I spoke with Corey and he will be happy to join us for discussions.

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  1. 1.

    Anne Laurie

    December 6, 2011 at 5:18 pm

    I’m looking foward to this, DougJ! You might want to further irk Cole set up a category specific to ‘Corey Robin’s Reactionary Mind’, so that people who wanted to read all the bookchat threads would have an easier search…

  2. 2.

    Raven

    December 6, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Amazon! Buy local if you can.

  3. 3.

    Calouste

    December 6, 2011 at 5:26 pm

    Objection you honor:

    Mind and Sarah Palin in the same sentence assumes facts not in evidence.

  4. 4.

    DougJ

    December 6, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Ok, will do!

  5. 5.

    Hob

    December 6, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    I’m 2/3 of the way through. Looking forward to this.

  6. 6.

    dance around in your bones

    December 6, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    I love the book club here, especially when the author is involved…just bought it for my kindle through the Amazon link on this site.

    I was looking at the actual book (you know, made out of paper and all) and thinking I could buy a used copy…can anyone explain why the new book is $29.95 and a used copy is $36.29 to $40.80? Are they signed by gawd or something? It’s a mystery to me.

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    December 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm

    @Raven: I live in Seattle. Amazon is local.

  8. 8.

    Brian S

    December 6, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    Amazon is also redefining dick move. Seriously, I’ll donate directly to whatever you all are giving the Amazon money to before I’ll buy from them.

  9. 9.

    El Tiburon

    December 6, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    dougJ:

    how similar is it to John Dean’s “Conservatives Without Conscience”?

  10. 10.

    MikeJ

    December 6, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    @Brian S: California has never charged sales tax on catalog purchases, but they seem to think that if you put your catalog on the internet instead of mailing out dead trees they should get a cut.

    I also have no problem with one vendor looking at what another vendor is charging for a product.

  11. 11.

    TOP123

    December 6, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    Edmund Burke –> Sarah Palin : Bonobo –> Amoeba

  12. 12.

    Stillwater

    December 6, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    That’s a really good book, the first half especially. Corey lays out the liberal/conservative dynamic as clearly as I’ve ever seen it presented (which isn’t sayin a hell of a lot, really). Even the second half, which was a little more disjointed from my pov critiques conservatism in a pretty fresh way.

    Doug, did you keep hearing Cleek’s Law in your head as you read that first half: C(today) = not-L(today), updated daily?

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    WereBear (itouch)

    December 6, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    I’m in!

    I rescue books from used bookstores all the time. But once authors can upload their own neglectd list: awesome!

  14. 14.

    Jenny

    December 6, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    speaking of which, Huntsman flip-flopped today and says he no longer believes in climate change.

    how pitiful.

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    handsmile

    December 6, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    @DougJ:

    Thanks for the heads-up! Do you have any sense when the discussions might begin? Wouldn’t mind myself if that could occur after the onslaught of the holidays, but perhaps launching it between semesters would be helpful to a number of readers/commenters here.

    FYI: For the past month or so, Robin has been writing a guest column for al-Jazeera. Here’s a link to a recent one, “I’ve got a crush on you”, about Antonin Scalia and Jack Bauer (no kidding): http://aljazeera.co.uk/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111115153044735801.html

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    Linda Featheringill

    December 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    For readers that are watching their pennies:

    You can download a Kindle for the PC from Amazon for free and purchase the Kindle edition of this book for only 10.00. Instantly delivered. No shipping, no waiting.

  17. 17.

    Countme In

    December 6, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    I look forward to Robin’s next book: The Mind of the Gourmand:
    From Forme of Cury to Jeffrey Dahmer.

  18. 18.

    WereBear (itouch)

    December 6, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    You start with a TS Eliot quote; and you got me.

  19. 19.

    DougJ

    December 6, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    @El Tiburon:

    Not very similar.

  20. 20.

    DougJ

    December 6, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    @handsmile:

    Let’s do early January then for the first meeting.

  21. 21.

    PurpleGirl

    December 6, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    @Linda Featheringill: I did that after seeing the library didn’t have the book yet. I wasn’t sure about buying a paper copy at this time. The Kindle PC app is kinda nice.

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    jake the snake

    December 6, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    I have a copy on my Nook. If anyone else has one, I can loan it. I have not lent a book yet, but we can figure it out.

  23. 23.

    General Stuck

    December 6, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    IF it doesn’t have too many big words, I might read it.

  24. 24.

    Steeeplejack

    December 6, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    @jake the snake:

    You can lend a Nook book only once–ever–to one other person, for 14 days. You can lend multiple books to one person, but each book can only be lent one time. That is, once a book has been lent once, it cannot be lent again to anyone.

    This is supposedly a limitation required by the participating publishers.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    December 7, 2011 at 12:01 am

    @jake the snake:

    (Blimey! Misspelled me own name on my brother’s computer.)

    You can lend a Nook book only once—ever—to one other person, for 14 days. You can lend multiple books to one person, but each book can only be lent one time. That is, once a book has been lent once, it cannot be lent again to anyone.

    This is supposedly a limitation required by the participating publishers.

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