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List three easy to read books that you feel smarter after reading

Posted on 04/27/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT by MNDude

Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?


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To: Eagles6
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Informative, but almost unbearably depressing. That is a trilogy, though.
101 posted on 04/27/2024 8:32:54 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: rlmorel

I thought “John Cleese? I won’t be able to get his silly Monty Python characters out of my mind!”. I was wrong. I’ve listened to the first five letters so far and they are great. The ones I’ve checked have been unabridged, but it looks like four are missing from that YouTube series.


102 posted on 04/27/2024 8:33:42 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Dr. Sivana
OP asked for 3 books.😉

Yes, depressing and scary.

The US is on the path.

103 posted on 04/27/2024 8:36:15 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: MNDude

1. The Holy Bible
2. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
3. An introduction to the New Covenant edited by Christopher Cone


104 posted on 04/27/2024 8:43:55 PM PDT by fatboy (')
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To: drSteve78

The 2005 HGTTG movie wasn’t that good. It was like they were going for the funny parts then turned away at the last moment. Even an attempt at Marvin’s battle with the tank would have been gold. I hope we see it in a real version later on.

When I go to a store with not so great self scanners and they jam up I say “what a depressingly stupid machine.”


105 posted on 04/27/2024 8:48:55 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Over the years people have tried to get me to read J.R.R. Tolkien. I say no I won’t read him as he has four initials and I find that too pretentious.


106 posted on 04/27/2024 8:54:55 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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To: MNDude

“Zero: the Biography of a Dangerous Idea” by Charles Seife
“Elegant Universe” by Brian Green
“A Guide for the Perplexed” by Mamonides (harder but short)


107 posted on 04/27/2024 9:00:41 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: MNDude

Huckleberry Finn.


108 posted on 04/27/2024 9:04:40 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: MNDude

The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel


109 posted on 04/27/2024 9:15:54 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I can understand. I accept Ayn Rand for her views on everything but God.

I reject her Atheism. Well, that, and the way she beats some things to death in literary sense.

But I wholly embrace her objectivism. I know. That is hard to do in the face of my Christian beliefs.

It is a hard circle for me to square, in the same way I can’t square the circle that is George Orwell’s views on Socialism.

I just have to live, in both cases, with the dichotomy.


110 posted on 04/27/2024 9:21:02 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

You have found THE MOST COMMO GROUND.

Very astute of you, because I agree with you and more people should SEE IT THAT WAY.


111 posted on 04/27/2024 9:23:57 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: jocon307

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner


112 posted on 04/27/2024 9:24:10 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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To: MNDude

Anything by Dr. Wayne Dyer


113 posted on 04/27/2024 9:25:04 PM PDT by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: MNDude

Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder by Michael Savage


114 posted on 04/27/2024 9:25:34 PM PDT by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)
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To: DoodleBob

Hahaha...I admit it. When I read Atlas Shrugged (I just put 5000 miles on my car in two weeks last month, and listened to all 36 hours of Atlas Shrugged) I skip over the John Galt Speech...although I listened to it while driving!

I really feel she beats it to a bloody pulp, the point she is trying to get across there in the Galt Speech. Heh, she could have got that point across in a page or two, but good gosh, she just goes on and on.

She is an odd duck, no doubt. One definitely gets the impression she would be into S&M, domination, bondage, or something bizarre, the way she writes, but...even with all that, it is not why I appreciate the book.

I am, and have been attracted to the book from the very first time I read it because of the way she portrays the looters, and a tyrannical government. She accurately captures the arc that a government run on Leftist principles, subjective principles, will follow.

I am a devotee of the book because of the way she portrays Leftist legislation from a corrupt government. “The Anti-Dog Eat Dog Rule”, but most of all...

“Directive 10-289”.

For much the same reason I admire Orwell, he saw clearly where we are going, so too did Ayn Rand.


115 posted on 04/27/2024 9:33:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I know! But...isn’t his voice absolutely, spectacularly perfect for Screwtape?

Sigh. I wish he wasn’t such a Lefty. But, he does skewer the Left too, so I give him props for that...:)


116 posted on 04/27/2024 9:35:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Reynoldo

Great book! Spectacularly engaging. It is a book that has set me on my road to God.


117 posted on 04/27/2024 9:37:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan; jmacusa

That is a fascinating book as well. Those two books of his are unnerving. And, interesting because he apparently had ready access to many of the Nazis who made decisions and were involved in things, and spoke to them while things were still fresh in their minds and records still existed...before they disappeared into the great, gaping black maw of the US and Soviet Governments.


118 posted on 04/27/2024 9:44:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MNDude

1. Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
2. The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
3. A Dream of Islands - Gavin Daws


119 posted on 04/27/2024 9:45:26 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Big Red Badger

Absolutely! Though I admit, there were times in my brain when I was envisioning Screwtape (or Satan himself) doing some version of the Ministry of Silly Walks!


120 posted on 04/27/2024 9:45:48 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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