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?
I'll take your advice on reading it as I tried to plow through it and failed.
Interesting, it makes me want to see some of her work.
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
Stained Glass - William F. Buckley, Jr.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
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.
Thanks. I’ll look it up.
Kant for Dummies (The Twelve Volume Set)
The Ninth Configuration
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
The Last Season / Eric Blehm
Mig Pilot / Viktor Belenko
Into Thin Air / Jon Krakauer
Another book that I learned a heck of a lot from was "Henleys Book of Formulas"
Screwtape letters messed up C.S. for quite sometime...like demon oppression.
The last section Always gives me a smile.
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, We the Living.
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.
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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.
The Everlasting Man, GK Chesterton
Men and Marriage, George Gilder
History of Christendom, Vol 1, Warren Carroll
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