[Arec Barrwin]

After seeing Ricky Bobby's nemesis in Talladega Nights (Jean Girard) reading "The Stranger" while racing, I just found this article amusing.

[LurkedLongEnough]

He's reading Camus, but he's feeling Sartre (No Exit).

[Lizavetta]

Lizavetta's suggestion to Bush - pick up some H.L. Mencken.....please.

[Perdogg]

I thought Camus most famous work was "The Guest"

[nkycincinnatikid]

Read it in high school, Only thing that has stuck with me is Calvados.

[popdonnelly]

I wonder how many of Bush's oh-so-intelligent detractors have read "The Stranger"?

[Bull Man]

Oh, and BTW - just imagine what the press would say if he was reading The Plague.

[Radix]

I once read 20 pages or so of Camus' "The Plague."

I've been halfway through Hesse's "Steppenwolf" for months now.

I once bought the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

[ChessExpert]

That is an interesting post. No more shall I sing "You are worthress Arec Barrwin."
If there is a sequel to the movie Team America - World Police, President Bush might have a small role.

[Ruddles]

Next he'll be smoking Gaulois and forsaking Crawford for a shack in the Atlas Mountains. La Guerre est Finis.

[woofie]

absurd

[shrinkermd]

Too bad. The President has been in Washington too long. He now believes he must meet and exceed all other mortals and their self-expectations.

If he wants to read with Laura, he should try "The Slave". A great story. He could then call up Gibson and give him a great movie plot. IB Singer was a great story teller. Wrote in Yiddish no less. Won the Nobel Prize on the basis of this novel. I think Saul Bellow translated the book.

If he wants OJT in crowd psychology, he should read the first 150 pages of "Crowds and Power" . Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize in early 80's for this one.

Since they were both written by Jews, he might impress the PTB in Israel. They are also great books. Even this Slavophile can see that.

[ladyinred]

Bush on vacation was a topic of some nut in our letters to the editor. The woman was just furious that he had the nerve to go to his ranch instead of doing his Presidential duties! Worse yet, Laura has the nerve to bum a cigarette or two from workers on the ranch while they are there! The woman was ballistic over that! The Clintons NEVER vacationed you see! (they only traveled more than any first couple in history)

[vikingchick]

The plot of The Stranger, if I recall correctly, is where a Frenchman shoots an Arab to death on a beach and feels no remorse for the crime.

/looking for deep meaning, conspiracy theories, and secret messages sensory off>

[EdJay]

The interesting thing for me, in this story, was Tony Snow saying Bush had just read the book recently, on his vacation.

The clear implication is that when he quoted from it last year, he was just reading what some speechwriter wrote for him to say. Which is probably true, but stupid of Tony to admit.