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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: MNDude

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

Above is a link to the short book (or long booklet!) called “The Revolution Was”, written in 1938 about the New Deal and FDR. The entire text is posted on FR. I learned a LOT from it. And learned a lot about where Obama and Biden get their ideas from as they grow the government’s power.


21 posted on 04/27/2024 6:12:38 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: MNDude

Man’s Search for Meaning. Viktor Frankl.

Meeting Jesus for the First Time. Marcus Borg

Boston’s Greatest Hits


22 posted on 04/27/2024 6:13:26 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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To: MNDude

Basic economics-Thomas Sowell
Undaunted Courage-Stephen Ambrose


23 posted on 04/27/2024 6:13:40 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: ansel12
Exactly what I was going to post.

His "Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy" did that for me, and I ended up reading all these:

His writing on various subjects is more approachable to a wider range of people than nearly any other author I know.

24 posted on 04/27/2024 6:14:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: SamAdams76

I agree.


25 posted on 04/27/2024 6:15:44 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: MNDude

Easy to read? I don’t know about that, but I just started reading Ben Hur, and though it’s rather massive, I’m already very excited about it.


26 posted on 04/27/2024 6:16:07 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: jocon307

Speaking of C.S. Lewis....

The Screwtape Letters.


27 posted on 04/27/2024 6:16:18 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: aspasia

Witness is excellent!


28 posted on 04/27/2024 6:16:39 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: aspasia
Witness didn't make me feel smarter, but it changed my political life.

When my wife was learning how to paint, she painted this for me...:)

Of course, that was before I got copies of Thomas Sowell's books!

29 posted on 04/27/2024 6:17:51 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MNDude

“The Life of God in the Soul of Man”
by Henry Scougal, modern English translation by Paul Lamb

“Knowing God” by J.I. Packer

“The Freedom of Self Forgetfulness” by Timothy Keller


30 posted on 04/27/2024 6:17:51 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: SamAdams76

Yes! Now, that didn’t make me feel “smarter”, but I validated to the roots of my soul what I thought about the Soviet Union.


31 posted on 04/27/2024 6:18:53 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MNDude

The Forgotten Man (A. Schlaes)
Brave New World (A. Huxley)
Anything by C.S. Lewis


32 posted on 04/27/2024 6:18:54 PM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: MNDude

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad


33 posted on 04/27/2024 6:18:59 PM PDT by microgood
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To: MNDude

See I told you so.

And any and all other books by Rush Limbaugh.


34 posted on 04/27/2024 6:19:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: MNDude

For a very well crafted non-fiction that should be an example to writers - “In Cold Blood”.


35 posted on 04/27/2024 6:19:16 PM PDT by llevrok (“In a time of deceit telling, the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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To: cyclotic

I have Sowell’s Basic Economics; kind of scared to read it, since I have never understood economics, and I’d hate to not understand his book.


36 posted on 04/27/2024 6:19:47 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: MNDude

Extremely easy to read, well-written, “Reasons to Vote Democrat”

Amazon has it. It has rave reviews, even by conservatives


37 posted on 04/27/2024 6:20:38 PM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Love The Screwtape Letters! I have an audiobook of it read by John Cleese, and it is fantastic!
38 posted on 04/27/2024 6:20:59 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: jocon307

“Mere Christianity” is a very good choice.

Regarding C.S. Lewis I would add “The Abolition of Man”. It’s more timely today than when it was written.


39 posted on 04/27/2024 6:21:26 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: llevrok

Chilling!


40 posted on 04/27/2024 6:21:29 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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