Posted on 07/12/2010 10:39:11 AM PDT by MplsSteve
really laughing. I can see that it could daunting. Im going to try!!!! I want to say I read it, dang it!!!
I was just heading out to our library which sells second hand paper backs for 50 cents and books for $1.00. I can usually pick up the latest bestseller within a month of issue for a buck. Can’t resist.
PS I’m a Coloradan too!
It details how prestigious revisionist Marxist "historians" have doctored events since the 1930s to make Communists here and abroad seem to be the "good guys," have destroyed reputations of anti-Communists like Joe McCarthy and have otherwise furthered the slow destruction of the American ideal.
It's a terribly important book but of course very few will read it or act on its message.
Having read both Guns, Germs & Steel and Collapse by Jared Diamond, I will say hi style is verbose.
To sum it up, why say in one page what you can say in 10.
I’m so short of shelf space, and OUT of walls to put more shelves against, that I have to be very discriminating about what I actually acquire. If it’s popular and in print, I figure the library will have it for a long time, and Lord knows they’ve got more storage than I do.
It's mostly a sickening expose of cowardice, arrogance and incompetence at the SEC.
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Different dude, dude!
I’ve read the “Corps” series twice and am following the “Presidential Agent” series.
Wish he would write another Corp novel or two.
Rand’s atheism is rampant throughout, so I think that has something to do with the “licentiousness equals freedom” theme.
Well, there has been whole series of threads dedicated to dissecting “Atlas Shrugged,” as pointed out in a previous post with several links, and I don’t want to hijack the thread. Many love her book, it just wasn’t for me.
By the way since I am posting again, those who are listing books, put down your opinions of them if you can, so I can decide whether I want to read them or not!
I’m reading a vanity posted to News/Activism without a link asking me what I am reading. :-)
The Dresden Files by James Butcher. I’m currently reading Book 5, having completed books 1-4.
The Authority of Publius by Albert Furtwangler
...and, of course, the awesomely awesome FR Book Club threads... ;-)
I’m working on two:
“Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism” by Joshua Muravchik
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell
This series is the story of the US Marines from roughly 1939 to 1952 and details the daring do of Ken "killer " McCoy, Pick Pickering, his father Malcom Pickering, their ladies and an array of sidekicks and villains.
The characters are intimately involved with several major events in the Pacific and Washington and everywhere in between. It is a terrific tale filled with details of historical insight into all levels of military life during WW II and Korea.
Wanted to get that at the library, but 3 reserves on it. So I started to read "A Short History of the American Revolution" by James Stokesbury
I also have "The First American Revolution (Before Lexington and Concord) by Ray Raphael. Maybe by then I can check out The 5000 Year Leap.
I have just finished the fictional prophesy series by Joel Rosenberg.
The Last Jihad
The Last Days
The Ezekiel Option
The Copper Scroll
Dead Heat
Incredible series based on Ezekiel ch 38-39 and Rosenberg’s world-wide contact base and experience in world politics.
Also read companion book ‘Epicenter’ which is background and updates to the series.
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