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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: MNDude

Ecclesiastes.


41 posted on 04/27/2024 6:21:56 PM PDT by alternatives? (`)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Travis McGee

Other great books? Anything by Matt Bracken

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00350B7EU


42 posted on 04/27/2024 6:22:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: rlmorel

John Cleese? I’m gonna check that out.


43 posted on 04/27/2024 6:23:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: MNDude

The Critique of Pure Reason

The Critique of Practical Reason

The Critique of Judgment


44 posted on 04/27/2024 6:24:13 PM PDT by x (Happy 300th Birthday, Immanuel Kant!)
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To: MNDude

Original Intent by David Barton

Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia by Wesley Smith

The Year Of The Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised National Security by Edward Timberlake and William Triplett


45 posted on 04/27/2024 6:25:44 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Another great easy to understand book on economics is Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”.


46 posted on 04/27/2024 6:25:47 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: MNDude

How to Lie with Statistics.

Short book and quick read. A bit dated but after reading that, you’ll never believe another poll or *study* again.


47 posted on 04/27/2024 6:25:55 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: MNDude

The Bible (it also qualifies as the hardest, as well)
Evangeline and the Sovereignty of God by J I Packer
Peace Child by Don Richardson


48 posted on 04/27/2024 6:27:21 PM PDT by Jemian ("I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.")
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To: MNDude

1.The Bible.

2. The AA Big Book.

3.The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich by William L. Shier.


49 posted on 04/27/2024 6:27:26 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Screw tape Letters good call. Easy to read and has influenced my thinking for decades.


50 posted on 04/27/2024 6:29:11 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Eagles6

A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, also by Soltzhenitsyn.


51 posted on 04/27/2024 6:29:16 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: MNDude
The Tale of Ginger and Pickles.

Doing business on credit is asking for failure.

:)

52 posted on 04/27/2024 6:29:44 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: llevrok

In Cold Blood is incredibly well written.


53 posted on 04/27/2024 6:30:28 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Flaming Conservative

Oh, read it! Read it! He will make you understand economics well enough that you can explain things like the role of prices in an economy, how economics is the study of the utilization of scarce resources that have multiple uses, and so on.

It is brilliantly and approachable written. No math that I can remember. All concept with examples.

Recently, my Republican Town Committee took part in a town activity where we set up a booth, and as a way to get people to stop (because most people are scared to death to make eye contact with anyone occupying a political booth, especially in my blue town in a blue state!) we had a free raffle!

We knew someone with access to some products like bluetooth speakers and such, got them for low money or free, and I offered to buy some books to include in the free raffle. One was “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers. Another was Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, and the last one that was never claimed by the winner, was “The Conscience of A Conservative” by Barry Goldwater.

I took that one home with me...:)


54 posted on 04/27/2024 6:30:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Jemian

That should be Evangelism .... Evangeline is a poem.


55 posted on 04/27/2024 6:30:57 PM PDT by Jemian ("I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.")
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To: Responsibility2nd
He has 100% the BEST voice for "Screwtape"!

You can listen to an abridged version here: The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese from ScrewTube!

56 posted on 04/27/2024 6:33:26 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

The Old Man And The Sea. Classic Hemingway!


57 posted on 04/27/2024 6:35:34 PM PDT by arazitjh (Like Bannon says: See What You See)
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To: MNDude

Green Eggs and Ham.


58 posted on 04/27/2024 6:39:16 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: TheWriterTX

Also, very good.


59 posted on 04/27/2024 6:47:58 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: MNDude
Three books make us feel much more educated and enriched after reading them

1. History - Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
2. Faith - The Pursuit of God by Tozer
3. Wrastlin' - Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling by Jim Ross

60 posted on 04/27/2024 6:49:46 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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