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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: Reynoldo

I gave those out as gifts for Christmas once...never got any feed back....
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121 posted on 04/27/2024 9:48:45 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: rlmorel

Thats funny how the brain works


122 posted on 04/27/2024 9:50:57 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: MNDude


123 posted on 04/27/2024 9:54:21 PM PDT by 4Liberty ( Kamala’s relatives owned slaves. )
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

H2G2 movie was unwatchable. Analog text about science fiction/comedy is an ultimate irony.


124 posted on 04/27/2024 9:57:12 PM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Have you read the Game of Thrones series?

Tolkien [a philologist] wrote better books, more literate and fascinating reads.

He was pals with C.S. Lewis [Chronicles of Narnia series/Perelandra series].

The initials thingee comes from old school English usages, not snootiness. He fought in WWI and was an Oxford professor of letters.

125 posted on 04/27/2024 10:15:43 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: MNDude

Economics in One Lesson-Henry Hazlitt, Republic by Plato, Meditation on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy


126 posted on 04/27/2024 10:19:46 PM PDT by 31R1O (The people who can control themselves ought to be able to defend themselves from those who can't.)
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To: rlmorel
There used to be an article on 'Objectivism' at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that was written by Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute.

Objectivism is generally not well-respected by other philosophers, which is something Brook mentioned in his article. I guess some philosopher got upset and had it removed. There is, however, an article on Ayn Rand where they discuss objectivism.

Here is a link to Chambers's review of Atlas Shrugged. He does get pretty tough on her:

Big Sister is Watching You

One of his main criticisms is that her philosophy is too simplistic and black-and-white. I used to be a libertarian, but I've come to believe that libertarianism is actually more utopian than even communism and so is a false hope.

At least the communists realized that people aren't made for a communist "utopia" and so there had to be a period they referred to as "dictatorship of the proletariat" in which they would supposedly transform humans into the sort that would be able to live in an anarcho-syndicalist wonderland.

A "dictatorship of the non-entrepreneurial" would just not fly with libertarians and their NAP, so there would never be a critical mass of people who would want to, or be equipped to, thrive in a libertarian world.

Instead we get libertarian half-measures like tax cuts without budget cuts, lax immigration policy without elimination of welfare, or a free market in political candidates that leads to a monopolization of lawmaking by wealthy corporations who use their lobbying power to restrict markets in their favor.

127 posted on 04/27/2024 10:22:12 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: ansel12
This was one of hers I like:


128 posted on 04/27/2024 10:34:32 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

That is pretty incredible, you should occasionally find an excuse to post something of hers that you think fits into a thread or maybe even do a thread of her works if appropriate.


129 posted on 04/27/2024 10:58:43 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: MNDude
The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk. When I read it in college, this magisterial survey of major conservative figures was a bracing revelation of conservatism as deeply rooted in Western history and not a concoction of Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley as a reaction to the New Deal.
130 posted on 04/27/2024 11:09:21 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: C210N
Extremely easy to read, well-written, “Reasons to Vote Democrat”

Is it a companion piece to Swift's A Modest Proposal? Something in the vein of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters?

Or does it consist of 230 blank pages?

Regards,

131 posted on 04/27/2024 11:15:31 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: MNDude

Rich Dad Poor Dad.

Winning Through Intimidation.

QBQ The Question Behind the Question.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.


132 posted on 04/28/2024 1:09:22 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: know.your.why

Bfl


133 posted on 04/28/2024 2:31:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: rlmorel

Something charming about that. Thanks for sharing.


134 posted on 04/28/2024 4:17:23 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: MNDude
The Art of War, Sun Tzu

A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum < /s>

-PJ

135 posted on 04/28/2024 4:23:54 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: MNDude

The Bible
The Unseen Hand by Ralph Epperson
Unintended Consequences by John Ross


136 posted on 04/28/2024 4:47:29 AM PDT by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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To: MNDude

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. Taught me about what the communists are planning, know what the signs are and how to counter them. Also, the 45 goals of Communism is my go to for metrics on the success of the Communist plan.


137 posted on 04/28/2024 5:09:19 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Waving Ukraine Flags in Congress is an act of Treason! )
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To: MNDude

Stranger in a Strange Land - by Heinlein


138 posted on 04/28/2024 5:41:27 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: MNDude
Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics.
139 posted on 04/28/2024 5:46:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
The Screwtape Letters,by C. S. Lewis.

Any dictionary.

140 posted on 04/28/2024 5:49:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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