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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: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I just got that book.

I'll take your advice on reading it as I tried to plow through it and failed.

81 posted on 04/27/2024 7:26:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: rlmorel

Interesting, it makes me want to see some of her work.


82 posted on 04/27/2024 7:27:46 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: TheWriterTX

In Soft Garments by Reverend Ronald Knox
Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design by Stephen C Meyer
The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by David W. Anthony


83 posted on 04/27/2024 7:27:55 PM PDT by NorthernDancer (“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”)
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To: MNDude
Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury

Stained Glass - William F. Buckley, Jr.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion

84 posted on 04/27/2024 7:28:39 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: llevrok

In Cold Blood was a game-changer of 20th-century literature. He never won a prize because they didn’t have a category for a book that wasn’t exactly fiction and wasn’t exactly factual. Such a bell-weather for the 20th century. What is fact and what is fiction? Without Truman Capote, those girls in high school wouldn’t be reading historical faction and thinking that it is the real thing. Book clubs wouldn’t be able to rant about the emotions of someone they never knew and modern muckrakers wouldn’t stand a chance of continuing the practice of 19th-century yellow journalism.


85 posted on 04/27/2024 7:30:12 PM PDT by MHT
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To: rlmorel

😊


86 posted on 04/27/2024 7:30:12 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Cowgirl

Thanks. I’ll look it up.


87 posted on 04/27/2024 7:30:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: x

Kant for Dummies (The Twelve Volume Set)


88 posted on 04/27/2024 7:32:12 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: MNDude

The Ninth Configuration


89 posted on 04/27/2024 7:33:15 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: rlmorel
Having read Witness and Atlas Shrugged and been a rabid enthusiast for Ayn Rand, my enthusiasm waned after reading Chambers's review of Atlas Shrugged in an early edition of National Review.
90 posted on 04/27/2024 7:35:46 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: SamAdams76; Eagles6; rlmorel; MNDude

DOOOD! It’s three EASY TO READ books!

Atlas Shrugged is a masterpiece. But it is 1,000+ pages of 4pt font. It took me 1 hour to read 30 pages, and I needed a thesaurus at times. It made me smarter, but it wasn’t easy!

In terms of Rand, easy AND illuminating, you can’t beat “Anthem.” My 10th grade English teacher ASSIGNED that book to us, which coincided personally with my getting into Rush. It was perfect. Parenthetically, my English teacher would be burned at the stake nowadays.

“Free To Choose” by Milton Friedman was revolutionary.

Rounding out my list isn’t a book, but the best contemporary piece about liberty, safety, responsibility, all under the guise of the 2nd Amendment: Jeffrey Snyder’s “A Nation of Cowards” - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3440463/posts


91 posted on 04/27/2024 7:38:01 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: MNDude

The Last Season / Eric Blehm

Mig Pilot / Viktor Belenko

Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer


92 posted on 04/27/2024 7:47:16 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: All
When I was a kid, my maternal grandmother gave me a subscription to "The Time-Life Science Library". If you want to limit it to three books, I'd say the ones on Matter, Energy and Machines taught me the most and helped form my entire life.

Another book that I learned a heck of a lot from was "Henleys Book of Formulas"

93 posted on 04/27/2024 7:50:28 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Responsibility2nd

Screwtape letters messed up C.S. for quite sometime...like demon oppression.
The last section Always gives me a smile.


94 posted on 04/27/2024 7:53:38 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: MNDude

Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living.


95 posted on 04/27/2024 7:54:48 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

Thank you, I’ve often meant to get that one.

I read his “ The Nightmare Years 1939/1940’’ many years ago. It was very well written and chilling. The man was an eyewitness to the insanity of the Nazi’s rise to power.


96 posted on 04/27/2024 8:06:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: rlmorel

This Is Good !


97 posted on 04/27/2024 8:06:59 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: super7man

^^This^^

70+ posts before this hit?


98 posted on 04/27/2024 8:07:14 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: HonkyTonkMan

If you liked Empire of the Summer Moon you might like “Rebel Yell”. I almost cried at the end and I knew how the story ended.... Gave it to my son and he said it was inspirational to read about a man of faith and a soldier.


99 posted on 04/27/2024 8:16:23 PM PDT by Dick Vomer ( (2 Timothy 4:7 "deo duce ferro comitantes" <p><b></B><P> <img src="">)
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To: MNDude

The Everlasting Man, GK Chesterton
Men and Marriage, George Gilder
History of Christendom, Vol 1, Warren Carroll


100 posted on 04/27/2024 8:31:39 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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