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But Which Books?

I applaud Yann Martel’s decision to send Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper a book every two weeks to raise his awareness of the arts, but I can’t help thinking that if someone tried this with President Bush, they’d end up on a watch list, if not on a plane to Gitmo. Even if it was Albert Camus.

Link via Bookslut.

Update 4/18/07:

Come on Yann, Tolstoy? You can’t ween an illiterate man on Tolstoy. Hell, I’m what you might call well read and I don’t even want to read Tolstoy. Why not start him off with something a little more manageable, like Ray Bradbury? Herman Hesse is a good start, too. Anybody but Tolstoy. Why not just drop Ulysses on his desk and be done with it?

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2 Responses to “But Which Books?”

  1. Bryan Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Buy him a subscription to the Weekly Reader, if it’s still published, and the Smithsonian’s kids’ magazine.

  2. Keith Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    “Hey Dick, did ya know they had dinosaurs way back before Egyptian times!?”

    “Yeah, just don’t tell our base.”