When my wife was learning how to paint, she painted this for me...:)
Of course, that was before I got copies of Thomas Sowell's books!
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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Above is a link to the short book (or long booklet!) called “The Revolution Was”, written in 1938 about the New Deal and FDR. The entire text is posted on FR. I learned a LOT from it. And learned a lot about where Obama and Biden get their ideas from as they grow the government’s power.
Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl.
Meeting Jesus for the First Time. Marcus Borg
Boston’s Greatest Hits
Basic economics-Thomas Sowell
Undaunted Courage-Stephen Ambrose
His "Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy" did that for me, and I ended up reading all these:
His writing on various subjects is more approachable to a wider range of people than nearly any other author I know.
I agree.
Easy to read? I don’t know about that, but I just started reading Ben Hur, and though it’s rather massive, I’m already very excited about it.
Speaking of C.S. Lewis....
The Screwtape Letters.
Witness is excellent!
When my wife was learning how to paint, she painted this for me...:)
Of course, that was before I got copies of Thomas Sowell's books!
“The Life of God in the Soul of Man”
by Henry Scougal, modern English translation by Paul Lamb
“Knowing God” by J.I. Packer
“The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness” by Timothy Keller
Yes! Now, that didn’t make me feel “smarter”, but I validated to the roots of my soul what I thought about the Soviet Union.
The Forgotten Man (A. Schlaes)
Brave New World (A. Huxley)
Anything by C.S. Lewis
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
See I told you so.
And any and all other books by Rush Limbaugh.
For a very well crafted non-fiction that should be an example to writers - “In Cold Blood”.
I have Sowell’s Basic Economics; kind of scared to read it, since I have never understood economics, and I’d hate to not understand his book.
Extremely easy to read, well-written, “Reasons to Vote Democrat”
Amazon has it. It has rave reviews, even by conservatives
“Mere Christianity” is a very good choice.
Regarding C.S. Lewis I would add “The Abolition of Man”. It’s more timely today than when it was written.
Chilling!
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