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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I miss having a president who reads books.[/quote]

+1.

Obama’s annual best of lists are always great— I also love his music list. I’m sure he gets help but wow they’re good in highlighting both low and high brow, mass appeal and niche, etc. [/quote]

yeah, it does achieve that, which kind of also undermines the list entirely. [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Because it appears to be entirely "curated" in order to garner approval from naive people, such as yourself.[/quote]

So? Every “best of” list is curated. [/quote]

Yes, and when the NYtimes does it, say the "best of 2025" list, you know it's based on books they have reviewed that year. Not one person, but a group of journalists and they vote on it. When Obama produces a list, it appears to be chosen by him personally, but it is not, it's just a PR exercise dressed up to make him look good. He may have read the books, but some PR person has handed them to him, for the purposes of building this list.

If you want to engage with fakery and treat it as real, knock yourself out.[/quote]

I 100% believe Obama has read every book on his lists even if he gets help selecting, etc. He reads pretty prolifically and always has.

Also, few of these books are really low brow. Something like King of Ashes is kind of highbrow lowbrow and I think it's totally credible that he read that and other books on his list, because... so did I. I read tons of trash mysteries, most new super popular books, high brow mysteries (well as high brow as mysteries get; but literary fiction with mystery components/focus are my favorites), memoirs of all stripes and modern fiction, including high brow. My own Top 10 reflects that and contains 2 of Obama's. I will also pick up 2 books because they are on his list.[/quote]

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