Title: “The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy”

Authors: Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Rank: 81

Blurb: “This official film tie-in is written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue — grandson of Lionel Logue, one of the movie’s central characters.”

Review: “It is a non-fiction book, so you cannot expect the kind of entertainment that the film gives.”

Customers Also Bought: “William and Harry: Behind the Palace Walls”, by Katie Nicholl

Footnote: So that makes six nominated films we haven’t seen. (And one we haven’t even heard of.) Which won’t stop us from hosting our Academy Awards Open Thread/Marble-Swallowing Invitational at 8 pm ET.

The King’s Speech [Amazon]

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Title: “The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast”

Author: Joel Richardson

Rank: 17

Blurb: “The Bible predicts that in the last days a charismatic leader will establish a global following in the name of peace. The Koran also predicts that a man will rise up to lead the nations, pledging to usher in an era of peace. The man in the Koran is called the Mahdi, or Islam’s savior. However, the man in the Bible is the Antichrist. Joel Richardson’s stunning research and analysis suggest that the Mahdi and the Antichrist are actually one and the same.”

Review: “For over 20 years I have studied the various end-times teachings looking for something that really made sense.”

Customers Also Bought: “Purging Your House, Pruning Your Family Tree: How to rid your home and family of demonic influence and generational depression”, by Perry Stone

Obligatory Glenn Beck Tie-In: Thursday.

Footnote: Matthew 5:9 is Satan’s handiwork.

The Islamic Antichrist [Amazon]

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Title: “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

Rank: 4

Blurb: “Features his blunt, firsthand opinions about some of the world’s best-known figures, from Margaret Thatcher to Elvis Presley, from Henry Kissinger to Colin Powell, and about each American president from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush.”

Review: “I just wish the RUMSTUD had included more details about his days as a competitive wrestler, and some pictures of himself in the locker room at Princeton. I’d much rather think about the RUMSTUD with his sweaty wrestling singlet peeled down to his waist then about Condoleeza Rice in her Ferragamo pumps. I like to fantasize that one afternoon (while my husband is out playing golf with his hedge fund buddies) the RUMSTUD invades our bedroom and puts me in a full nelson while Bill O’Reilly works me over with a falafel. I hope you get the picture!”

Customers Also Bought: “Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld”, by Hart Seely

Footnote: Yes. Rumstud. Clearly we weren’t paying attention at the time.

Known and Unknown [Amazon]

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Bristol Palin’s memoir will hit bookstores on June 21.

Last week in the NYT Book Review, Neil Genzlinger wrote of memoirs:

There was a time when you had to earn the right to draft a memoir, by accomplishing something noteworthy or having an extremely unusual experience or being such a brilliant writer that you could turn relatively ordinary occur­rences into a snapshot of a broader historical moment. Anyone who didn’t fit one of those categories was obliged to keep quiet. Unremarkable lives went unremarked upon, the way God intended.

Apparently some things are genetic.

[Politico: A Bristol Palin memoir?]

Title: “The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order”

Author: Damon Vickers

Rank: 22

Blurb: “The U.S. government is having its regular auction of U.S. Treasury notes. Here we go again begging to the world with our tin cup. Only this time the world says, ‘No. We aren’t going to buy any more U.S. I.O.U.s.'”

Review: “I got Damon’s new book as a present recently from my grandpa and was totally put off because the topic is definitely one that had never interested me before.”

Obligatory Glenn Beck Endorsement: “This is the only person I have heard who seems to have the total picture and the guts or the insanity to actually say it out loud.”

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Title: “Mr. Sunday’s Soups”

Authors: Lorraine Wallace and Chris Wallace

Rank: 64

Blurb: “After a long day on air, Chris would often arrive home hungry and delight at the sight of a big pot of his wife Lorraine’s soup on the burner.”

Review: “I like to make big vats and store in freezer bags.”

Customers Also Bought: “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, by Donald Rumsfeld

Footnote: “Mr. Sunday is a serial killer.”

Mr. Sunday’s Soups [Amazon]

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Title: “The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection”

Authors: All of them

Rank: 3,251,794

Price: $13,413.30

Blurb: “Please note: Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck is no longer available. This title has been replaced in the collection by a new edition of The Portable Edgar Allen Poe.”

Review: “They arrived in 25 boxes shrink-wrapped on a wooden pallet, over 750 lbs. of books. It took about twelve hours to unpack them, check them off the packing list (one for each box), and then check them off the list we downloaded from Amazon.com. They take up about 77 linear feet.”

Customers Also Viewed: “Harry Potter Paperback Box Set”

Footnote: Let’s see, at a 6% kickback, that comes to…

The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection [Amazon]

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