Whatcha been reading?

[tremendoustie]

Ask and ye shall recieve:
[url]http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2758319[/URL]

Peace be upon thee.

Though she is selling an updated one on amazon -- that's the older version.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

An expose on the relationship between the Wall St. financial elite, government debt, and inept politicians:

http://www.amazon.com/Bought-Paid-Unholy-Alliance-Between/dp/1595230718

 

[american.swan]

I've been reading Gatto's Underground History of American Education. Eye opening read for sure. I've also been listening to Human Action by Mises.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I've been reading Gatto's Underground History of American Education. Eye opening read for sure.

Needs to go on DG's list.

 

[BuddyRey]

Fiction - Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party

The only way I can describe this book is "Ayn Rand meets James Bond." It outlines a very plausible scenario in which libertarian activists, through technological savvy and strategic organizing, completely take over the state of Wyoming.

However, this isn't by any stretch a dry or staid polemic about liberty; it's action-packed and very exciting. To top it all off, Molon Labe! has inspired more than a few people to actually try and implement Boston T.'s plan.

I can't recommend this book enough, both for its merits as a "how-to guide" for libertarian activists, and for its sparkling originality as a political thriller.

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Non-Fiction - No Treason by Lysander Spooner

I'm not even going to try and explain this one, because there's no way I could do it justice. Suffice it to say that more than a hundred years after it was written, the ideas contained in this myth-shattering essay are just as shocking, challenging, and "dangerous" to the ruling elite now as they were upon the book's release.

No Treason can be read (or listened to) for free online, and really doesn't count as a *book* since it's not even 100 pages long. But I would be remiss if I didn't mention Spooner's magnum opus at every available opportunity.

 

[tommyzDad]

I finished a bunch of Robert A. Heinlein novels: Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Door Into Summer, To Sail Beyond the Sunset. (Starship Troopers I'd read years ago.)

 

[Distinguished Gentleman]

Lot's of good stuff, I'm going to use the filler extension Anti-Federalist. If somebody gave me any one of these books, I'd be happy, but only choosing a couple makes me feel like a kid in a candy store

Freakonomics, the John Taylor Gatto book, End the Fed, I'll read them all eventually. Feel free to turn this into a book review thread if anyone has got one's they want to post.

 

[Andrew-Austin]

Fiction - Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party

The only way I can describe this book is "Ayn Rand meets James Bond." It outlines a very plausible scenario in which libertarian activists, through technological savvy and strategic organizing, completely take over the state of Wyoming.

However, this isn't by any stretch a dry or staid polemic about liberty; it's action-packed and very exciting. To top it all off, Molon Labe! has inspired more than a few people to actually try and implement Boston T.'s plan.

I can't recommend this book enough, both for its merits as a "how-to guide" for libertarian activists, and for its sparkling originality as a political thriller.

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Non-Fiction - No Treason by Lysander Spooner

I'm not even going to try and explain this one, because there's no way I could do it justice. Suffice it to say that more than a hundred years after it was written, the ideas contained in this myth-shattering essay are just as shocking, challenging, and "dangerous" to the ruling elite now as they were upon the book's release.

No Treason can be read (or listened to) for free online, and really doesn't count as a *book* since it's not even 100 pages long. But I would be remiss if I didn't mention Spooner's magnum opus at every available opportunity.

+1 to No Treason, read that a couple days ago. Its brief and available in audiobook format for free, so no reason not to check that out. Plus it makes constitutionalism seem... oh well I won't spoil it for anyone so that they avoid it, lol.

 

[TheDriver]

Just finished:

Now reading:

 

[malkusm]

Just finished Part I of "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville

Just started "33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask" by Tom Woods

 

[98Tokay]

After War - Chris Coyne
Robust Political Economy - Mark Pennington
When Jesus Became God - Richard Rubenstein

 

[TroySmith]

I'm reading Alongside Night. Mainly because I heard of how libertarian it is. And it is very libertarian, however this alone can't make a fiction book a compelling read. I'm halfway through it and its good enough thus far, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it that highly.

The first book was really good. But the series seemed to start gradually going downhill from there. Book 2 wasn't nearly as good as one, and book three was baaad. Its like he distilled some of the main things I didn't like from book two in to book three, and left out all the things I liked from book one. The second the main character was enslaved yet again I quit the series.

I started reading the series after someone here said it was written by an Objectivist, but I found no significant or interesting traces of it. The author was more fond of inserting torture scenes, enslaving Richard over and over, exploring boring Chantry politics, always keeping the main characters apart, then inserting objectivism in to the book.

Starting with Faith of the Fallen, the sword of truth series becomes extremely philosophical and entirely centered around liberty vs collectivism. The Rand influence is extremely strong. The series is excellent and at times therapeutic.

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

I need to get a Bob Murphy book

 

[matt0611]

I need to get a Bob Murphy book

If you haven't read any book on the great depression yet, I highly recommend the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression by Murphy. Its the best book to start on that topic IMO.

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

If you haven't read any book on the great depression yet, I highly recommend the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression by Murphy. Its the best book to start on that topic IMO.

Yeah that was the one I was thinking about.

 

[pacelli]

Third time reading Permaculture: A Designer's Manual.

Pretty heavy reading. If you want to get started learning about permaculture I highly recommend Gaia's Garden (Hemenway) first, and then Introduction to Permaculture (Mollison) next.