To: MtnClimber
Only a few I would have selected. Atlas Shrugged made it onto the list.
2 posted on
04/29/2016 9:06:32 AM PDT by
MtnClimber
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3 posted on
04/29/2016 9:08:30 AM PDT by
G Larry
(ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
To: MtnClimber
There is about 20 on that list I agree with the other, eh...
#1 is the Bible which is strangely not on the list.
To: MtnClimber
100 books to change your life
In bound hardback, even 90 of these falling on you at once could end your life or cripple ya.
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6 posted on
04/29/2016 9:12:54 AM PDT by
pabianice
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To: MtnClimber
I don’t remember the name or author of a book that changed my life. When I was 15 or 16, I read a book written by a former KGB agent who became a born again Christian and who managed to emigrate out of Russia. When he was in the KGB he used to harass Baptists and Pentecostals meeting at house churches, and a young Christian woman impressed him so much and the memory of her faith stuck with him such that he eventually became a Christian (he lost touch with the woman). There was more to his story, but reading about his faith journey planted a seed that influenced me in mine.
I wish I had gotten my own copy of his book because I read it at someone else’s house while babysitting.
8 posted on
04/29/2016 9:16:36 AM PDT by
Cecily
To: MtnClimber
I have read about half a dozen of this list. I would have recommended Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. That is what helped me come out of my parents shadow of being a southern democrat and into being a full throated conservative Republican. Well, that an Reagan’s speeches.
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.” President Reagan
10 posted on
04/29/2016 9:16:54 AM PDT by
taxcontrol
( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
To: MtnClimber
A few books that I read as a teenager which influenced my thinking:
- Total Terror; An Exposé of Genocide in the Baltics by Albert Kalme (New York: Appleton, 1951) made me aware of the savage barbarism and ferocity of Communism.
- None Dare Call It Treason by John Stormer (Florissant, Mo.: Liberty Bell, 1964), a "campaign" book for the 1964 presidential campaign, helped to make me aware of the conservative world view.
- America: Listen! by Frank Kluckhohn (Derby, Conn.: Monarch, 1963). Anyone who lived through the 1960's will recall how President John F. Kennedy was lionized, especially after he was assassinated. The 1963 version of Kluckhohn's opus, which was about twice the size of the 1961 first edition, showed that Kennedy had feet of clay.
To: MtnClimber
Atlas Shrugged and the Bible both belong on the list but in different ways. When my views disagree with AS, I ignore Ayn Rand. When my views disagree with the Bible, I do my best to defer to God’s infinite wisdom and accept His guidance - especially when that is hard for me.
19 posted on
04/29/2016 9:42:51 AM PDT by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: MtnClimber
If some of these books actually changed someone's life, that person must have had a pretty pathetic life to begin with.
There are few I would rate as "potentially life-changing," but Shel Silverstein? Dr. Seuss?
20 posted on
04/29/2016 9:57:31 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: MtnClimber
If some of these books actually changed someone's life, that person must have had a pretty pathetic life to begin with.
There are few I would rate as "potentially life-changing," but Shel Silverstein? Dr. Seuss?
21 posted on
04/29/2016 9:58:13 AM PDT by
IronJack
To: MtnClimber
It's interesting that The Emerging Republican Majority (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1969) made the list at #25. This demographic study, which came out shortly after Richard Nixon was elected president most likely inspired books such as The Conscience of a Majority by Barry Goldwater (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970) and The Real Majority by Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg (New York: Coward-McCann, 1970).
To: MtnClimber
“The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand.
To: MtnClimber
A better list than I expected, but note the absence of Asimov, Heinlein, and Tolkein...
27 posted on
04/29/2016 10:28:53 AM PDT by
bigbob
To: MtnClimber
Animal Farm should be on that list
34 posted on
04/29/2016 3:27:02 PM PDT by
PATRIOT1876
(The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
To: MtnClimber
A couple of my picks:
Autobiography of Cellini
Life and times of Rembrandt by Van Loon
Moral doctrines by Epictetus
I chose freedom by Kravchenko
Chesterfield’s letters
The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang
Books, fine old hardbacks, are incalculably valuable. The library is more important than the garden and comes before it. Books are kryptonite to the criminal-minded, this only adds to their value.
To: MtnClimber
My "greatest" book was a childrens book.
Gordon Shirreffs --- Mystery of the haunted mine Caused spine chills and i realized that reading could be fun.
37 posted on
05/01/2016 5:20:35 AM PDT by
urtax$@work
(The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
To: MtnClimber
You mean Basic Plumbing Techniques by Robert Wehrman didn't make the list?
38 posted on
05/01/2016 5:27:42 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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