A great reading list
A correspondent sends me a list of books people are claiming Sarah Palin tried to ban in her local library when she was mayor. It is Apart from anything, I doubt Wasilla library has the shelf space. Great list - someone who read them all would emerge more civilised than when they started...
A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
Brave New World by Huxley
Catch 22 by Heller
Clockwork Orange by Burgess
As I lay Dying by Faulkner
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Confession by Rousseau
Death of a Salesman by Miller
Flowers for Algernon by Keyes
Lady Chatterleys Lover by Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by the Grimm Brothers
Lord of the Flies by Golding
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Lee
One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey
The Chocolate War by Cormier
Pigman by Zindel
I do hope that when the first interviews are given the curse of access journalism (mustn't upset her as we need to get to McCain) does not stop someone asking about Lady Chatterley's Lover. What has she got against lusty working-class English folk!
I suspect she would laugh and be perfectly charming about it all. And that, My Friends, is a problem for the Democrats: cheap smears on the internet do not add up to an anti-Palin policy. Obama knows this...
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