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A book, a dilemma

I have a host of books on the nightstand that demand my attention, and I’m trying my best to accommodate them. Currently, I’m re-reading The Informant, the delightful (though depressingly true) account of price-fixing by corporate monster and “supermarket to the world” Archer Daniels Midland. One day soon, I’ll get around to listing the other volumes weighing down the shelf in the bedroom.

Just now, though, I have a bit of a dilemma regarding a book I really don’t care to read: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. You’ve likely heard more than you care to about this title, and so have I. However, it’s turned out that a free copy came into my hands recently, and now I’ve got a problem: read the damn thing, suspecting that it will prove at best a waste of precious hours, or consign it to some horrible yet eco-friendly fate?

I suppose that I could do both. Familiarize myself with Goldberg’s vaunted scholarship (oy), the better to make fun of him in future, then give the book the chucking it will (most likely) deserve.

But what to do with it when I’m done? I leave that up to you, gentle reader(s). Give me some choices, and I’ll try to follow through with the one I like the best. No need to rush. Believe me, there’s plenty of time.

At least the book was free.

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