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Vanity Thread | 1/28/2019 | Me

Posted on 01/28/2019 5:41:19 PM PST by Republic_Venom

Freepers, what books have you read recently and would recommend them for the rest of us? My list includes:

1. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt 2. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari 3. Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams 4. The Feminist Lie: It Was Never About Equality by Bob Lewis


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education
KEYWORDS: bonfirethereof; books; godsgravesglyphs; pages; readinglist; vanityepidemic
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To: BenLurkin
I rid myself of the TV and read now. Just finished within the last six months;
Tennessee's Civil War Battlefields by Randy Bishop
Rediscovering Americanism by Mark Levin
Magnificent Destiny by Paul Wellman
Paul McCartney, The Life, by Phillip Norman
George S. Patton by Micharl Keane
Curtis LeMay by Warren Kozac
Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson
Hap Arnold by Bill Yenne
American Warrior by Gary O'Neal

Currently reading Breakout and Pursuit by Martin Blumenson

21 posted on 01/28/2019 6:07:36 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: humblegunner

Ha. Good one.


22 posted on 01/28/2019 6:08:32 PM PST by deadrock
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To: Republic_Venom

Currently reading the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

I don’t recommend you get it. LOL

Worthy books ...

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

The Bell Curve

Shattered Sword (a history of the war in the Pacific, especially the Battle of Midway)

Anthem, by Ayn Rand


23 posted on 01/28/2019 6:10:21 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Republic_Venom

I just got: “Stars Upstream. Life Along an Ozark River” by Leonard Hall,from 1958. Great reading.


24 posted on 01/28/2019 6:13:14 PM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: deadrock

Surprised he can read.


25 posted on 01/28/2019 6:14:59 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Republic_Venom
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times by Alan Walker
26 posted on 01/28/2019 6:19:03 PM PST by Publius
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To: Republic_Venom

Moving Mountains- John Eldredge


27 posted on 01/28/2019 6:21:04 PM PST by hoagy62 (America Supreme!)
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To: Republic_Venom

The Case For Nuclear Weapons In The 21st Century by Brad Roberts.


28 posted on 01/28/2019 6:21:44 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: Republic_Venom
You can never go wrong with Louis L'Amour
The Sacketts, Last of the Breed, Haunted Mesa, The Walking Drum, Flint, Hondo ... The list goes on.
29 posted on 01/28/2019 6:22:16 PM PST by gtwizard (Income Inequality is called INCENTIVE!)
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To: Republic_Venom
I am reading The Gospel According to Tolkien. I am loving it.

Last summer, I read Peter the Great: The Man and His World. It was fantastic.

30 posted on 01/28/2019 6:22:55 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: Republic_Venom

Just finished “Everyday Millionaires” and several Peter Drucker books.

Currently reading:
Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind”
Thomas Sowell’s “Conquests and Cultures”


31 posted on 01/28/2019 6:27:33 PM PST by tbw2
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To: humblegunner

OMG. I wish I had been drinking something so I could have spit it out, cartoon-style. GOOD ONE.


32 posted on 01/28/2019 6:28:33 PM PST by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: Republic_Venom

I recommend Dr. Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life”. Finished it not too long ago.

Was disappointed by “Everyday Millionaires” by Scott Hogan. It felt like a mash up of his “Retire Inspired” and Dave Ramsey’s FPU books with a smattering of statistics. It really fell short of the updated study of millionaires.


33 posted on 01/28/2019 6:28:57 PM PST by tbw2
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To: Republic_Venom

Rereading “Angela’s Ashes”, Frank McCourt


34 posted on 01/28/2019 6:29:40 PM PST by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: ZinGirl

“A Life of Impact”. By Deborah Shisler. (My daughter) written about her dad and the impact as a dad, teacher, coach, role model and also a look at Heavenly Father relationship viewed thru the lens of her earthly father...
Amazon and Barnes and Knoble. Oh, and I wrote the last chapter...


35 posted on 01/28/2019 6:36:47 PM PST by princess leah
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To: Republic_Venom
Here are some books that I have recently read:
Who Killed the Congo? By Philippa Schuyler (New York: Devin Adair, 1962)
An analysis of the Belgian Congo (now Congo Kinshasa) and how meddling by the United Nations, Belgian socialists and outside powers from both the West and the Communist bloc contributed to the chaos that engulfed the country following its independence in 1960. The author, daughter of George Schuyler, a prominent Harlem Renaissance writer and longtime conservative pundit and raconteur, was killed while on a humanitarian mission in Vietnam in 1968.

Total Terror: An Exposé of Genocide in the Baltics by Albert Kalme (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1951)
An account of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states

Winning’s a Lot More Fun by Stephen C. Shadegg (New York: Macmillan, 1969)
The story of Richard Nixon’s successful campaign for the presidency in 1968

A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror by Gary Kern (New York: Enigma, 2003)
The story of Walter Krivitsky, the Soviet spy who defected to the West and exposed dozens of Soviet agents before his mysterious death in a Washington, DC hotel room in 1941

Resistance Is Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind by Ann Coulter (New York: Penguin, 2018)
A witty polemic in defense of President Trump and his policies


36 posted on 01/28/2019 6:38:49 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Republic_Venom

The sound and the fury
Andrew jackson American lion


37 posted on 01/28/2019 6:40:48 PM PST by SteveH
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To: deadrock

I listened to Shantaram on audio book a couple of years ago - it was an amazing story.


38 posted on 01/28/2019 6:41:30 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Fiji Hill

Anne might want to add her own name into the title.

As for me; I’m currently reading the “Rembrandt Affair” by Daniel Silva. Part of the Gabriel Allon series.


39 posted on 01/28/2019 6:46:48 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Republic_Venom; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Republic_Venom, glad someone is back to posting these.

40 posted on 01/28/2019 6:49:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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