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Ask the Forum: Fiction or Non-Fiction
Topic Started: Oct 17 2009, 10:19 PM (413 Views)
Tristan da Cunha
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Your loss.
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Have you read it? What is it about?
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Tristan da Cunha
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I haven't read more than 10% of it. It's about why communism is bad.
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Quaon
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Atticus, you could try not being closeminded, you know? I mean, at the very least, you'll know your enemies better. I've read the Communist Manifesto, libertarian publications, Heinlein novels, anarchist materials, William F. Buckley, Kurt Vonnegut, fascist documents. Stop being an intellectual coward and read some shit.
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Quaon
Oct 20 2009, 08:09 PM
Atticus, you could try not being closeminded, you know? I mean, at the very least, you'll know your enemies better. I've read the Communist Manifesto, libertarian publications, Heinlein novels, anarchist materials, William F. Buckley, Kurt Vonnegut, fascist documents. Stop being an intellectual coward and read some shit.
You know what, you're right. ok, should I get

Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
Steven Levitt: Freakonomics
Salmam Rushdie: Step across this Line
or
Mark Twain: Complete Essays of Mark Twain
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Read Twain or Vonnegut.
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Read Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, that's some good conservative reading. But based on your reaction to TC I get the sense that you might not be conservative, just one of those "anti-liberal" types of half-thought-out political thinkers.
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lebowski2123
Oct 20 2009, 09:50 PM
Read Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, that's some good conservative reading. But based on your reaction to TC I get the sense that you might not be conservative, just one of those "anti-liberal" types of half-thought-out political thinkers.
I would love to use that, but its supposed to be a book of essays, not just a non-fiction book. But I am extremely conservative, its just that the book he suggested had a lot to do with anarchism. But yes, its only been less than a year when I truly became interested in politics, so I'm till trying to expand my knowledge of conservative history and viewpoints.
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for a good collection of essays,

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Also I highly reccommend: "Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys" (Hardcover)
by Mary Eberstadt (Editor)

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Oct 20 2009, 02:44 PM
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Oct 20 2009, 11:31 AM
I voted fiction, and I must reiterate my recommendation of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert A. Wilson.

But for non-fiction, I suggest "Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective" by Kevin Carson.
I still do plan to get to your recommendation of Wilson's trilogy. Don't worry; I haven't forgotten! Sadly, with law school consuming much of my reading energy, my backlog has grown quite a bit over these last few years :(

Carson sounds familiar - I think I may have read some material of his online. Does he have a website?
No worries. If I could, I would mail you Illuminatus! so you wouldn't have to go find a copy.

And yeah, Kevin Carson's work can all be found on the interwebs for free.
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Esternarx
Oct 21 2009, 11:51 AM
Rhadamanthus
Oct 20 2009, 02:44 PM
Esternarx
Oct 20 2009, 11:31 AM
I voted fiction, and I must reiterate my recommendation of "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert A. Wilson.

But for non-fiction, I suggest "Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective" by Kevin Carson.
I still do plan to get to your recommendation of Wilson's trilogy. Don't worry; I haven't forgotten! Sadly, with law school consuming much of my reading energy, my backlog has grown quite a bit over these last few years :(

Carson sounds familiar - I think I may have read some material of his online. Does he have a website?
No worries. If I could, I would mail you Illuminatus! so you wouldn't have to go find a copy.

And yeah, Kevin Carson's work can all be found on the interwebs for free.
http://www.mutualist.org/id4.html This is where I had come across him before.
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Oh, I ended up reading a book called Gang Leader for a Day which my brother had wanted me to read for a few months.

After that, for the last few days, I have decided to read a few books that I have been intending to read for some time but put off due to their length and somewhat arcane foci. I am currently reading the first volume of Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, after which I will proceed through the second volume. From there I will move on to Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell's more recent study of ecology and history in the Mediterranean region, The Corrupting Sea, and hopefully in the future, they will complete their second volume of that duology.
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