Anti-Climacus

LINK: Dan Drezner asks which book that's most famous in one's field that they've not yet read. I made a list of these at the beginning of the term, but, sad to say, I've succeeded in crossing most of them (and all the major ones) off the list. In the spirit of the game, I'll confess to never having made it all the way through Democracy in America, and I can promise you it'll probably never happen--I think it's probably the most overrated book in political theory--if you gave me a couple of years to travel and 900 pages to write, I could probably come up with some good observations about American society--heck, the first David Brooks book established that it's certainly possible.