Stinque Book Club

Cream for a Day.Title: “Abuse of Power [Bargain Price]”

Author: Michael Savage

Rank: 68

Bargain Price: $0.41

Blurb: “Jack Hatfield is a hardened former war correspondent who rose to national prominence for his insightful, provocative commentary. But after being smeared as a bigot and extremist by a radical leftist media-watchdog group, he ultimately loses his job and finds himself working in obscurity as a freelance news producer in San Francisco.”

Review: “I consider myself conservative, but I grew a bit fatigued being beaten over the head repeatedly with political views.”

Customers Also Bought: Nineteen other books by Michael Savage, and one by Mike Lee.

Footnote: With the price so low, you can buy multiple copies and throw them out as the pages stick together from jacking off to radical leftist media-watchdog groups getting their comeuppance.

Abuse of Power [Amazon]

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Cinco de Myopia.Title: “The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts”

Author: Gary D. Chapman

Rank: 35

Blurb: “Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with specific, simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction.”

Review: “A lot of the people who gave it low ratings said it was full of simple common sense.”

Customers Also Bought: “The 5 Love Languages Men’s Edition”, “The Five Love Languages Singles Edition”, “The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers”, “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, “The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace”, “The Five Languages of Apology”, “The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional”, “God Speaks Your Love Language”, and “A Perfect Pet for Peyton: A 5 Love Languages Discovery Book”.

Footnote: If we only had no shame, we’d be rich.

The 5 Love Languages [Amazon]

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Obama should get a cut of the royalties.Title: “Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life”

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Rank: 33

Blurb: “Distilled from a career of unusual breadth and accomplishment, and organized under practical topics like hiring people, running a meeting, and dealing with the press, Rumsfeld’s Rules can benefit people at every stage in their careers and in every walk of life, from aspiring politicos and industrialists to recent college graduates, teachers, and business leaders.”

Review: “The book is chock full of practical tips that are just as useful for a mom running a household as a CEO running a Fortune 500 company.”

Customers Also Bought: “Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America’s Most Underrated President”

Footnote: Don’t buy books from war crooks.

Rumsfeld’s Rules [Amazon]

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Forever Thirteen.Title: “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”

Author: Kelly Williams Brown

Rank: 36

Blurb: “Just because you don’t feel like an adult doesn’t mean you can’t act like one.”

Review: “Being an adult is hard. It takes practice. It takes commitment.”

Customers Also Bought: “F*ck! I’m in My Twenties” by Emma Koenig

Footnote: At 54, we’ve learned that the easiest way to conquer those 468 steps is to ignore most of them.

Adulting [Amazon]

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Red D'oh!Title: “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us.”

Review: “I had to stop several times to try and figure out a sentence due to the messed up grammar or spelling.”

Customers Also Bought: “Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21”

Footnote: Why is the American government inefficient at everything but tyranny?

Control [Amazon]

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The Legend of Zelda.Title: “The Great Gatsby”

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rank: 1

Blurb: “The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ‘gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession.'”

Review: “I found them both to be such shallow creatures that they inspired no pity.”

Customers Also Bought: “Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes)”

Footnote: It’s always adorable when Leo plays a grown-up.

The Great Gatsby [Amazon]

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Tip #1: Have a famous catchphrase.Title: “Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet”

Author: George Takei

Rank: 69

Blurb: “How did a 75-year old actor from Star Trek become a social media juggernaut?”

Review: “The first 69 pages or so are, as one might expect, the tale of a man in his sixties coming to grips with the modern internet.”

Footnote: Actually, it would be those first 69 pages that fascinate us. Just as a popularized Internet was a world-historical moment when Netscape debuted in 1994, we’re now at a moment when “digital natives” (yeah, we know, get used to it) are past drinking age. As a 35-year-old Latent Geek at the time, the transition was easy for us — especially since, working on a college campus, we were already active on the pre-Web Internet. But consider George Takei as a stand-in for your parents. (Okay, your grandparents. Fuck you kids, your time will come.) What’s it like to be potentially left behind by a profound technological shift?

Oh Myyy! [Amazon]

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