If you could select one book ..

[Bullwinkle925]

that Shrub would be forced to read - what would it be and why?

I believe I would begin with Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" dealing with the issue of spreading 'Christianity'.

[elshiva]

1. Any book on magic,

especially studying the chapter on how to disappear.

[KitchenWitch]

2. excellent choice

Shapeshifting would be good too.

[elshiva]

6. Shapeshift into a cat and see Frist?

[Bullwinkle925]

3. good one!

:rofl:

[LynzM]

4. I don't know one off the top of my head...

But I'd want him to read a first-person account of what it's like to live through a bloody, protracted, unwinnable war, from the 'other' side. Granted, it's one thing to read it and another to absorb and understand and empathize, but it might be a start.

[Bullwinkle925]

5. Yes, indeed. We can only hope!

[mtowngman]

7. Slaughterhouse Five n/t

[newscott]

8. Good choice.

I'm afraid he may fall for the passages with Montana Wildhack and forget about the rest of the book tho...

[mtowngman]

10. LOL !

Vonnegut's my hero.

[jane_pippin]

9. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Constitution

Do I really need to say why? :D

[Bullwinkle925]

11. Good on you!!

:applause:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Thich Nhat Hanh: Anger

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. The New Testament

I don't think he quite got that turn the other cheek thing yet.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. LOL

Great minds think alike.
Our posts were almost simultaneous.
:D

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. Funny...and true

[Gormy Cuss]

14. The New Testament

He might learn something about Christianity.

[hippywife]

17. Hmmm...let me see...

he's already finished My Pet Goat. I've never read it but since it's a children's book, surely it must have had some kind of moral or lesson in it, no?

I like the New Testament idea followed by my all-time favorite book: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn.

[swag]

18. Cat in the Hat

It would easily keep him amused and out of mischief for the next three years.

[flowomo]

19. My Pet Goat -- he should finish one book in his life.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

20. "Bloody Hell"

by Dan Hallock. Incredibly important and deeply disturbing book about the "price soldiers pay".

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0874869692

[Ptah]

21. The Book of Matthew:

"You have heard that it was said,
'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil.
But if any one strikes you on the right cheek,
turn to him the other also; and if any one
would sue you and take your coat, let him
have your cloak as well; and if any one
forces you to go one mile, go with him
two miles. Give to him who begs from you,
and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
You have heard that it was said, 'You shall
love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But
I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for
those who persecute you, so that you may be
sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He
makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good,
and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."
(Matthew 5:38:45 RSV)

[ChoralScholar]

22. "We're right and They're Wrong" by James Carville

[mitchum]

23. Kevorkian Method for Dummies

[ellisonz]

24. I'd make him read

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. He'd go into shock.

[aaronbees]

25. Nickel and Dimed

by Barbara Ehrenreich. Because it's an astute chronicle of life on the margins of the economy. Fantastic book!