Stinque Book Club

Equuuuuuuuus!Title: “Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans”

Author: Rush Limbaugh

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Hold on to your pointy triangle hats, because you can — with me, Rush Revere, seemingly ordinary substitute history teacher, as your tour guide across time! ‘How?’ you ask? Well, there’s this portal. And a horse. My talking horse named Liberty. And — well, just trust me, I’ll get us there.”

Review: “Rush and Liberty travel back into time and use a Smartphone to capture live videos of historical events as they happen, which they show their students as they happen.”

Customers Also Bought: “Dubs Runs for President” by Dick Morris

Footnote: Give us Mr. Peabody, or give us death.

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims [Amazon]

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Jack was actually writing a Stephen King novel.Title: “Doctor Sleep”

Author: Stephen King

Rank: 17

Blurb: “Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals. ”

Review: “I liked the book very much except, the part where dan exhaled the cancer onto the true knot members. Too much john coffeyish.”

Customers Also Bought: “Carrie (Movie Tie-in Edition)”

Footnote: We didn’t truly appreciate Kubrick’s genius until reading The Shining after seeing the movie. Stephen King’s famous resentment of the adaptation is that of Salieri towards Mozart.

Doctor Sleep [Amazon]

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A Smug Work of Staggering Condescension.Title: “The Circle”

Author: Dave Eggers

Rank: 23

Blurb: “When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.”

Review: “Should be required reading in junior high if they can get past the sex scenes.”

Customers Also Bought: “Fear of Flying” by Erica Jong

Footnote: The Circle is being pitched as the 1984 of social media, written by a 43-year-old who grew up in a simpler time when all we had to worry about were credit cards tracking our every purchase. We’re all for extrapolitive caricature, but we can’t help smelling the freshly cut lawn of a premature fogey. Besides, Big Brother wasn’t opt-in.

The Circle [Amazon]

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Title: “The Romney Family Table: Sharing Home-Cooked Recipes & Favorite Traditions”

Author: Ann Romney

Rank: 61

Blurb: “Pull up a chair as Ann Romney invites you into her home and kitchen, combining some of her favorite foods with memories of raising five boys (such as coming home to find her young son completely covered in Marshmallow Fluff).”

Review: “All proceeds go to hospials (rather than Socialism medicine forced on the masses but not taken by those forcing it on us.)”

Customers Also Bought: “Home for the Holidays” by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and “Closer To The Truth” by Cher

Footnote: Don’t ask what’s in Mitt’s Meatloaf.

The Romney Family Table [Amazon]

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Title: “Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked”

Author: Chris Matthews

Rank: 63

Blurb: “A magnificent personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country.”

Review: “The two parties could actually work together to get things done despite the vast differences in their views.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays” by Albert Camus

Footnote: I tot I taw illegal wars, Wall Street looting, decimation of social services, and the undermining of the Middle Class!

Tip and the Gipper [Amazon]

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Nailed it.Title: “Killing Jesus”

Authors: Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

Rank: 3

Blurb: “Millions of readers have thrilled by bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and historian Martin Dugard’s Killing Kennedy and Killing Lincoln, page-turning works of nonfiction that have changed the way we read history.”

Review: “I was surprised that the biblical scholarship was lacking.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Bible of Unspeakable Truths” by Greg Gutfeld

Footnote: Never mind that — we’re stocking up popcorn for the coming schism between the new Groovy Pope and Asshole American Catholics like O’Reilly.

Killing Jesus [Amazon]

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Children should be seen in the coal mines and not heard.Title: “The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System”

Author: Ron Paul

Rank: 81

Blurb: “Ron Paul attacks the problem head-on and provides a focused solution that centers on strong support for home schooling and the application of free market principles to the American education system.”

Review: “A gifted child who is ready for advanced physics or advanced calculus will have to make some special arrangements.”

Customers Also Bought: “Israeli Civilian Childrens Gas Mask w/Nato Filter” (Review: “This fit my 7 year old.”)

Footnote: The free market would prefer that you know just enough to flip burgers.

The School Revolution [Amazon]

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