{"id":348,"date":"2004-09-16T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/modern-voter-education\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T00:37:00","slug":"modern-voter-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/modern-voter-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern voter education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/uggabugga.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/ego-meter-amazon.html\">uggabugga<\/a>, a set of recommendations for what books voters should be reading to prepare themselves for the upcoming election, offered by our leading pundits (in the broadest possible sense of &#8220;leading&#8221;). To demonstrate that neither end of the political spectrum has any monopoly on self-importance, Ann Coulter and Gore Vidal vie for the title of most self-recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>The best list was offered by the incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/feature\/-\/537455\/ref%3Ded%5Fe4%5F537455\/104-3079061-0439921\">Jon Stewart<\/a>, who is funny even when nobody is getting his jokes. Here are his recommendations for what voters should be reading.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060740450\/lecturenotesonge\/104-3079061-0439921?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\"><i>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/i><\/a> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" \/> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0140188592\/lecturenotesonge\/104-3079061-0439921?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\"><i>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/i><\/a> by Thomas Pynchon. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0883962004\/lecturenotesonge\/104-3079061-0439921?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\"><i>Warmed by Love<\/i><\/a> by Leonard Nimoy. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/stars-5-0.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679772871\/lecturenotesonge\/104-3079061-0439921?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\"><i>The Magic Mountain<\/i><\/a> by Thomas Mann. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/stars-4-5.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0141181265\/lecturenotesonge\/104-3079061-0439921?dev-t=mason-wrapper%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\"><i>Finnegans Wake<\/i><\/a> by James Joyce. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8220;These form the core syllabus of modern voter education.&#8221; The amazon.com star rating from readers has been included, to help make decisions about which book you might want to start with. But it&#8217;s good to know that Stewart agrees with the consensus over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/EE\/index.php\/weblog\/from_the_muted_post_horn_mailbag\/\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9&#8217;s blog<\/a> that an understanding of Pynchon is necessary to follow the current campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via uggabugga, a set of recommendations for what books voters should be reading to prepare themselves for the upcoming election, offered by our leading pundits (in the broadest possible sense of &#8220;leading&#8221;). To demonstrate that neither end of the political spectrum has any monopoly on self-importance, Ann Coulter and Gore Vidal vie for the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}