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10 Books Not To Read Before You Die
The Times (UK) ^ | September 17, 2008 | Richard Wilson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085511/posts?page=97#97
Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:41:41 PM by PotatoHeadMick
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Same here. But my exceptions are probably a little longer.
So which nonfiction books would you say were a waste of your time? I’m having trouble coming up with some. The cool thing about nonfiction is that if you wade through the drudgery when you don’t like it, at least you learned some history.
Here are 10 nonfiction titles that I recommend TO READ...
1) “Intercept UFO” by Renato Vesco. It’s not what you think, very surprising book about how flying saucers are secret weapons.
2) “Late Great Planet Earth” by Hal Lindsay. Highest selling title of the entire decade of 1970’s. Changed my life.
3) “Jesus: God, Ghost or Guru” by Buell & Hyder. The basics — that Jesus claimed to be God. Simple, clear reading.
4) “Evidence that Demands a Verdict” by Josh McDowell. Reinforcement of #3.
5) Nam (Some collection of first person stories about soldiers in Viet Nam. I found it compelling. I wonder if there’s a corollary for Iraq? )
6) “The Ultra Secret” by Winterbotham. How the brits broke the NAZI code.
7) “Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed” Beaudette, C.G. Read it here for free:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/BeaudetteCexcessheat.pdf
8) “Don’t Let Science Get You Down, Timothy: A Light-hearted (but Deadly Serious) Dialogue on Science, Faith, and Culture” by Jean Drew and Sandi Venable (Two of my favorite Freepers, pinging them also. I haven’t read the book all the way through yet.)
9) “The Spymasters of Israel” forgot author.
10) “Hackers” by Steven Levy in the same vein, “Fire in the Valley” and “Hard Drive”
Then there’s Biographies: Wright Brothers, Hudson Taylor, Brother Andrew, Corrie Ten Boom, Thomas Townsend Browne, Chuck Yeager, Chesty Puller, Congressional Medal of Honor winners, Bismarck, Hitler, Napoleon, Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake, Audie Murphy, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Bill Gates.
97 posted on Friday, September 19, 2008 2:42:51 PM by Kevmo (Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/certifigate/index?tab=articles)
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“5) Nam (Some collection of first person stories about soldiers in Viet Nam. I found it compelling. I wonder if there’s a corollary for Iraq? )”
Try “The Sandbox: Dispatches From Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan”. It’s a series of short stories from the guys who were there (including, I modestly admit, me)