What are you reading?

[Okie RP fan]

After a couple months of picking up and putting down Peter Schiff's The Real Crash, I finally finished it today. Skipping around 20 pages within the last couple chapters just because I reached that point where I felt as if I read the important stuff. The real important part of the book that I feel people really need to read, perhaps not us, but, our family and friends, was the chapter labeled "Putting Government in it's place."

I feel he made many libertarian based points regarding foreign policy, to social issues such as prostitution. He also mentions Ron Paul several times.

Anyway, I am now starting A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell. I've read only a few pages thus far and nothing is jumping out at me.

 

[PierzStyx]

John Adams by David McCullough
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Emperor:The Death of Kings by Conn Iggulden

Those Emperor books are great reading. Not great history. But great reading.

 

[XTreat]

Pretty great if you like the other Dark Tower books. There's a story about the main characters escaping from a storm, Roland tells them a story about when he was younger and looking for a shapeshifting killer, and the younger Roland tells a story his mom used to tell him. So it's a story within a story within a story. Sounds strange, but it works.

My favorite parts of the series is when Roland tells stories of when he was younger. My favorite book of the series is Wizard and Glass.

 

[XTreat]

I'm on book 5 and wish I never started. It is my estimate that it will be 2020 before that illiberal blob, GRRM, finishes the damn series.

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He's blagging on the most asinine BS imaginable:



Seriously dude, get back to fucking work.

Thanks for ruining martin for me, I have read all 5 books and now will start seeing liberal bias as I read the rest.

 

[XTreat]

I am currently reading:

Shadowbosses, about government unions with a decidedly right wing flavor http://www.amazon.com/Shadowbosses-...&qid=1347782921&sr=1-1&keywords=shadow+bosses

What Has Government Done To Our Money, you all know this one http://www.amazon.com/What-Has-Gove...eywords=what+has+government+done+to+our+money

Lion of Liberty, Bio on Patrick Henry http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Liberty-...id=1347782956&sr=1-1&keywords=lion+of+liberty

 

[idiom]

I'm on book 5 and wish I never started. It is my estimate that it will be 2020 before that illiberal blob, GRRM, finishes the damn series.

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He's blagging on the most asinine BS imaginable:



Seriously dude, get back to fucking work.

Interesting guy to work on trying to convert. If the series with a huge following still had a conclusion to write and its politics suddenly diverged towards freedom... it would be helpful.

 

[Indy Vidual]

Mastering Linux

 

[Corto_Maltese]

Rereading "the wheel of time" series. Cant wait for the last book to come out.

 

[Okie RP fan]

I am currently reading:

Shadowbosses, about government unions with a decidedly right wing flavor http://www.amazon.com/Shadowbosses-...&qid=1347782921&sr=1-1&keywords=shadow+bosses

What Has Government Done To Our Money, you all know this one http://www.amazon.com/What-Has-Gove...eywords=what+has+government+done+to+our+money

Lion of Liberty, Bio on Patrick Henry http://www.amazon.com/Lion-Liberty-...id=1347782956&sr=1-1&keywords=lion+of+liberty

Are you reading all three at the same time, or just whenever you finish one you will move on to the other?

Just wondering, because I'd like to know how you feel about reading multiple books at one time.

 

[Meatwasp]

Rereading "the wheel of time" series. Cant wait for the last book to come out.

I don't think the last book will ever be done. You know the original author died and a new author took over. I almost like the new one better as he doesn't fling so many new chatacters around,

 

[XTreat]

Are you reading all three at the same time, or just whenever you finish one you will move on to the other?

Just wondering, because I'd like to know how you feel about reading multiple books at one time.

I am reading all three. Rothbard stays on the back of my toilet and I rotate the other two. Sometimes I read more than three at a time. If I get a really good fiction novel I will blitz right through it though.


How do I feel about it? Well I read a lot so its easy I guess. I just kinda pick what I want instinctively.

 

[XTreat]

I don't think the last book will ever be done. You know the original author died and a new author took over. I almost like the new one better as he doesn't fling so many new chatacters around,

I like Brandon Sanderson better as well.

The last book comes out January 3rd 2013.

 

[Okie RP fan]

I am reading all three. Rothbard stays on the back of my toilet and I rotate the other two. Sometimes I read more than three at a time. If I get a really good fiction novel I will blitz right through it though.


How do I feel about it? Well I read a lot so its easy I guess. I just kinda pick what I want instinctively.

I've tried reading two books at once one time. A novel and work of non-fiction, probably political, I can't remember.
I wasn't bothered by it, but, I was just afraid that I wasn't going to remember everything from both books or that I was going to start mixing up details within both.

I was just wondering how you did it. I guess some people can with no problem.

 

[Okie RP fan]

I had to put down A Renegade History by Thaddeus Russell. I found it to be repetitive and almost desperate. And, in some cases, there was too much detail, and I prefer detail.

He tried too hard and came off, in my opinion, as praising practices such as prostitution and infidelity. Needless to say, I only read about 90 pages before I just had to stop.

So, for the past few weeks I've been reading Angels and Demons, and The Lost Symbol.

Anyone read those by Dan Brown?

 

[specsaregood]

I just finished reading Born To Run. It was a really entertaining read with great characters, especially for essentially non-fiction and i'm not even a running nut; but still poured through it over a weekend and closed it out by going for a long run for fun.

 

[bolil]

I know this thread is infrequently frequented but I have noticed a terrible deficit in my mind regarding logic. I am looking for recommendations on books that do not need to be simple, while lacking in logical analysis I do not lack in comprehension or so the ACT told me, but offer lessons on logic and fallacies both informal and formal. Thanks in advance.

I understand that logic cannot be applied to all things, being as Murray Rothbard put it, a natural rights proponent. It is funny how the word "logic" is bandied about yet, in all my public education, I cannot remember taking a course on logic. Or latin for that matter. What a sham.

 

[COpatriot]

I have less than 50 pages left in George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier". Orwell wasn't right about everything, but I have always loved his commentaries. Even most of his fictional work is based on real life events. Don't know where I'll go when I finish this one though. Really want to read the Fire and Ice series and Atlas Shrugged, but I have stacks of other books I want to read on top of other books I don't have and those two would take so much time.

 

[Uriah]

Robert's Rules of Order, 11th ed.

 

[Dystopian]

Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

 

[Pisces]

Dostoevsky's The Idiot.

For some reason I was never able to get into this book and never finished it. I've loved everything else I've ever read by Dostoevsky. Maybe I should give it another try. I'm reading Dante's Divine Comedy right now. I'm about four cantos into Purgatorio.