The ideal Christmas gift: 29 hours of Barack Obama
From a recent Costco excursion, a 29-hour 28-CD audiobook by Barack Obama:
It is impossible to imagine a better Christmas gift for your friends, who can wrap themselves in 29 hours of bliss and comfort every time something upsetting is said by Donald Trump or those Republicans who remain unkilled by COVID-19.
(What if you have neglected to defriend all Republicans? This is an even better gift for a Deplorable because Deplorables need to hear these healing messages more than the righteous.)
Separately, in terms of page count, this is the same length as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combined. Homer’s epics were almost the sole basis for education for centuries. Perhaps we could design a public school curriculum where A Promised Land was the only book studied from K through 12?
An Amazon review:
Obama’s autobiography is very wordy, slow and much of it boring. And I like the guy and loved his first book. There is no real news in this autobiography which is mostly about politics and how moderate he was as president. Too long, too. Too much about his time in the Illinois legislature and the U.S Senate. The book should have been edited down. Volume One is 752 pages and ends with the killing of Osama bin Laden. Volume Two likely will be equally long.
Hallelujah! There will be four Iliads worth of content soon enough.
Related:
- Folks in Israel may not be devoting a week of their lives to the listen: “Obama on Israel: Broken Promise, Full of Falsehoods” (New York Sun)