2 Questions: (1) Are you democrat, republican or neither; and (2) what is your favorite novel or all time?

Question

Just wonder if there is any connection...

Thanks for your answers so far. All interesting, if not too revealing yet.

To those who are giving "thumbs down" to some of the questions, what on earth for? How can there possibly be a "bad answer" to this question, unless the answer is either abusive or non-responsive or both?

OK, the sample is way to small to draw any real conclusions, but it seems the libertarians and independents like books that fit with their political leanings.

I was looking for more answers like wisdomforfools' Grapes of Wrath. Great novel, and you would think that democrats would love it.

Republicans are all over the board. Seems to me that only one answerer chose as his or her favorite novel a book that either lampoons his own political side or takes a position that opposes his political side. That would be bats_fanfilm.

It would be nice to see 100 answers so that we could check for a pattern...

Answer 1

I'm a Libertarian.

Wow! I don't know if I can pick just one book that is my favorite novel of all time. So many good ones.

I will say I enjoy reading many of L. Neil Smith's Science Fiction books that promote liberty. Some are kind of naive, but he paints an interesting look at what an adult society could be like with no government.

Answer 2

Independent.

I am such an avid reader - and well into retirement so have read soooooooo many....it is hard to pick one.

"Undaunted Courage"-the story of Jefferson, Meriweather Lewis and the opening of the West.. This is soo good.

"The Killer Angels", "Gods and Generals"- Civil war and others.....great literature.

"Cold Mountain" - the book.....the movie sucked big time.

Anything by Isaac Asimov - I have to re-read here...sorrowfully he is now dead.

Anything by Carl Sagan - read above.

I am Stephen Kings #1 fan.

Fiction authors-current: Michael Connolly, James Patterson, Jonathan Kellerman

Fiction authors - classics: Steinbeck, Hemingway, T.S. Eliott, Martin and Osa Johnson

I'd better stop here.

Forgot a good one: "The Path Between the Seas"-story of the planning and building of the Panama Canal....awesome.

Answer 3

Libertarian.

That's a difficult one. Toss up between Guns, Germs, and Steel, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War, and Locke's Second Treatise on Government.

Answer 4

I doubt it.

Republican, and my favorite novel is either The HItchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which is RIDDLED with atheist and anti-conservatism propaganda), The Haunting of Hill House, or Raptor Red. The first is an obvious contradiction to your theory, but is there any connection between the other two books and my political orientation, do you think? :P

Answer 5

Republican.

"1632" A science fiction novel in which a small West Virginia town get zapped back in time to, you guessed it, 1632 in Germany during the 30 Year War. How they use their technology and knowledge of the future to survive.

Lots of fun for time travel and alternate history fans.

Answer 6

Neither.
I'm Conservative and as such I currently don't have a party to represent me.
The Lord of the Rings trillogy, followerd by Stranger in a Strang Land and The Bourn Identity.

Answer 7

I'm neither, I'm an Independent.

This is a hard question for me, I have so many favorites. But I'm doing the "desert island can only bring one book with me thing..." Okay, would have to be Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land.

Answer 8

Democrat-Cider House Rules

Answer 9

Neither, but mostly liberal. Political parties disappoint me.

Either The Godfather or The Count Of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers.

Answer 10

Republican.

I read alot, but very little of it is fiction.

If I had to pick one book I would have to say Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (I enjoy all of his works although I do not entirely agree with his philosophy).

I am a fan of Stephen King as well, as to pure pulp fiction.