Just before heading off to the States in the New Year, I joined Audible.com – a quite wonderful treasure-trove of audio programmes. For less than £10 a month I get a full audio book – around eight hours of audio – and a monthly subscription to an audio magazine.
So far so good. For my first book, I picked The Second Coming of Steve Jobs – I was, after all, off to watch him perform in San Francisco. For my subscription, I picked the hour-long audio summary of the Harvard Business Review – jolly useful for those MBA essays. Both were excellent.
But perhaps, on reflection, this gave a misleading impression of my tastes to Audible’s website. I went back last night, looking for new listening material, and was surprised to see this as top recommended book:
The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left’s Assault on Our Culture and Values
“If you believe children should be seduced into warped sexual behaviour by the Gay Elite, if you think confessed murderers should be set free by defense attorneys who know how to wield the race card, if you feel promiscuous gay men should be empowered to spread AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, don’t read this book.But if you’ve always suspected that factions on the Left are trying to destroy the values that define our civilization, this book proves it… Tammy Bruce takes you inside the chilling world of the Left – a place where morals and decency have been turned on their heads and the crisp distinction between Right and Wrong has been blurred into a mushy, gray mess.”
And this, gentle reader, is the publisher’s summary, not some wild enthusiast or even (gasp!) the author’s self review.
But I have to confess to a curious desire to spend this month’s book credit on this, just to see what it’s like. I’m just not sure that I can stand all six hours six minutes – or that it would be a good idea to listen in on the way to work each morning. Perhaps I should buy this one, then get Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, described by colleague Lloyd Shepherd as a “tirade against the right-wing media mafia in the US”, just for balance. Flip between the two – perhaps right wing rant on the East London Line, left wing rant on the Hammersmith and City. Or should that be the other way around?
Right-wing mafias, the Gay Elite, leftist factions… all these groups, and I’m not a member of one. Well, I’m a member of the Swindon Town Supporters’ Trust, but I strongly suspect that’s not the same thing.
Typical liberal media elite viewpoint there, Neil. Tool of the Guardian’s agenda, that you are.
Besides, everyone knows the Swindon Illuminati rule the world.
But shhh – if people knew they were being ruled from a small room just off the Magic Roundabout, there might be a riot…
Me, I’m a member of Leeds United Fans Abroad, which makes me a supporter of the mushy gray mess itself.
Oooh – Andrew: we feel your pain.
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