Help! Mom! There are LIBERALS under my bed!
...a book for children by Katharine DeBrecht and Jim Hummel
Posted on 02/28/2008 11:36:32 AM PST by C210N
Looking for FR book recommendations.
I have to second that - it’s a fun book (especially after having taken a couple medieval history classes, I find other people’s theories about the templars to be lots of fun to read about).
More stuff: ‘Good Omens’ by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett is a brilliant satire on the apocalypse.
‘The Children of Hurin’ is a must-read for any hardcore Tolkien fan (especially those who have read the Silmarillion, or anyone at all who’s ever read the Kalevala). Although Tolkien himself didn’t actually write it, it definitely has the same ‘feel’ as the rest of his books, and draws more heavily on mythology than almost any other fantasy I’ve read.
The ‘Ender’s Game’ series by Orson Scott Card is great, especially the ‘Ender’s Shadow’ half of it.
‘Snow Crash’ by Neal Stephenson is classic cyberpunk. Anyone who knows much about computers, the internet, or MMORPG’s would probably appreciate it. Oh, and did I mention that Scientologists are essentially some of the bad guys?
And I always like classic mythology or literature, ie, Beowulf, The Kalevala, Epic of Gilgamesh, Canterbury Tales, The Song of Roland, Dante, and pretty much anything else up to (and including) Shakespeare.
And one last piece of advice: No matter how good ‘No Country For Old Men’ might have been, do NOT read ‘The Road’ by Cormack McCarthy - it’s the most depressing book I have ever read (it makes stuff like 1984, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Giver, or any other ‘depressing’ or dystopian literature I’ve read look happy and uplifting by comparison).
So your argument is this: that Spooner's ability to regurgitate things he learned from Jefferson and Randolph makes him a philosopher, and a great thinker.
I've read The Declaration as well and, if I crib from it, it doesn't make me a visionary.
If this is all the better you can do, you need your Troll Card revoked.
That's the second time you've used that strange syntactic construction. Is it a regional thing?
Whiner. Nice trigger finger on the Abuse button as well.
Help! Mom! There are LIBERALS under my bed!
...a book for children by Katharine DeBrecht and Jim Hummel
Feel free to ask the mod. I did not touch the Abuse button.
I would prefer your posts to stand as written.
Hmm. What would one call a person who cried about the Abuse button to someone who didn't use it?
Whiner.
Thanks, DC. Exactly the word I was looking for.
This thread was doing just nicely until you started peeing in the Cheerios.
Wideawake didn’t touch the abuse button. Surprise surprise, we mods like to read threads as well and if we see personal attacks, we will zot them.
Now, knock off the personal attacks.
So the OP’s post going after someone else’s list will be pulled then? Or are some animals more equal than others?
America — The Last Best Hope Volumes 1 and 2; William J Bennett
Page 111 right now! Weird!
The 20th 'Kinsey Millhone' crime novel written by Sue Grafton...
Read that day of release I think.
I have many like that...just can’t wait!
I thought I had already stipulated that I was the worst person in human history.
Surely my unspeakably evil decision to comment on the quality of some of the offerings on the thread falls under that general heading.
Here's a reading suggestion of mine: the first book of Six Books Upon The Commonwealth by Jean Bodin.
I'll also add Considerations On France by de Maistre.
I suggest these because the first is the background of all modern arguments about sovereignty and the second because it is, I believe, the more intelligent and subtly argued critique of elected legislatures that Spooner cribbed, cropped and simplified for some of his work.
Me too...
They're fun to read on vacation.
Have you read any of these? What a hoot!
Did you notice that someone put you in the Keywords for this thread?
That is on my list to buy.
Just bought “The Three Junes”. Did you read it?
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