Title: “Consider the Lobster and Other Essays”

Author: David Foster Wallace

Rank: 8,414

Blurb: “His topics are various — this new collection treats porn, sports autobiographies and the vagaries of English usage, among others — his perspective always slightly askew and his observations on point.”

Review: “My nephew who is 15 really liked this book. My niece who is 17 suggested it to him.”

Customers Also Bought: “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Footnote: “Key Phrases: political talk radio, adult industry, porn starlets, Rolling Stone, Dick Filth, South Carolina (more…).” We can think of no better way to start off today’s monthly Stinque Book Chat.

Consider the Lobster [Amazon]

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Title: “Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even”

Authors: Jim Cramer and Cliff Mason

Rank: 64

Blurb: “Cramer begins with six rules for protecting the money you have and making sure that you have the money you need.”

Review: “If you were helped by Watch TV, Get Rich or Get Rich, Stay Rich then why do you need Getting Back to Even?”

Customers Also Bought: “Picking Winners: A Horseplayer’s Guide,” by Andrew Beyer

Footnote: Rule #1: Don’t listen to Jim Cramer.

Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even [Amazon]

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Title: “America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty”

Author: Jerome Corsi, Ph.D.

Rank: 31

Blurb: “As policy-makers manipulate the economic panic of our times to advance a globalist agenda that threatens American sovereignty, we must protect our independent and self-governing nation and preserve the decades of economic power and military strength we have enjoyed since the end of World War II.”

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Title: “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times”

Author: James Wesley Rawles

Rank: 22

Blurb: “It would only take one unthinkable event to disrupt our way of life. If there is a terrorist attack, a global pandemic, or sharp currency devaluation — you may be forced to fend for yourself in ways you’ve never imagined. Where would you get water? How would you communicate with relatives who live in other states? What would you use for fuel?”

Review: “His book was fascinating to a guy like me, who before reading this, hardly ever thought about packing for a nuclear holocaust.”

Customers Also Bought: “Going Rogue: An American Life,” by Sarah Palin

Footnote: Also available in a Kindle Edition! (Electricity not included.)

How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It [Amazon]

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Title: “The Winter of Our Discontent”

Author: John Steinbeck

Rank: 17,768

Blurb: “In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had ‘resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.'”

Review: “Winter is another of those books more easily appreciated at the age of 20 than at 50.”

Customers Also Bought: All the usual Freshman Lit suspects.

Footnote: Contrary to rumor, Disney is not expanding California Adventure to accommodate. But the other rumor is true: It’s time for Stinque Book Chat!

The Winter of Our Discontent [Amazon]

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Title: “Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor”

Author: Matt Latimer

Rank: 81

Blurb: “If only there had been more Matt Latimers in the Bush administration.” (Tucker Carlson)

Review: “I’ll keep this book until late October when I’ll need kindling for my fireplace.”

Customers Also Bought: “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free,” by Charles P. Pierce

Footnote: Although not our usual Wingnut Special, there’s been enough chatter around this book (by a former Shrub speechwriter) that we can’t ignore it. Bush, upon first hearing of Sarah Palin: “What is she, the governor of Guam?”

Speech-less [Amazon]

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Title: “Guide to Pirate Parenting: Why You Should Raise Your Kids As Pirates, and 101 Tips on How to Do It”

Author: Tim Bete

Rank: 337,553

Blurb: “If you’re like most parents, you long to raise your children as pirates, but just don’t know how. In Guide to Pirate Parenting, Cap’n Billy The Butcher MacDougall provides everything you need to know to turn your little powder monkeys into happy, healthy buccaneers.”

Review: “I also enjoyed the sections on ‘Your pirate’s progress,’ that has lists for you to check how quickly they are growing as a pirate by what they are saying. Such as:

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