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Posted: 11/2/2022 3:55:06 PM EDT
Not a very big reader. But I got 1984 after hearing about it over and over.
I couldn’t put it down! Read it in a couple days. I am reading the immortality key. I can barely pronounce half the names in the book, but it is very interesting. Just can’t get into it like I did 1984. I asked before and said strictly non-fiction. But obviously that requirement is out the window. Please and TIA! |
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Have you read Brave New World? Kinda similar but not really to 1984. 1984 is all about forcing people into submission. Brave New World is all about distracting the populace with entertainment to pacify them.
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Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.
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Animal Farm
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Starship Troopers.
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Crime and Punishment
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"Instead of making people sick, this virus had made people retarded."
-beardog30 4/22/20 Tennessee Squire ???? |
Atlas Shrugged
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Not a joke, it was actually a pretty good read. For me at least. |
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Enemies Foreign and Domestic
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GunPowder and Pu$$y, Live by one Die by the other, Love the smell of both!
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Forever War
Behind Every Blade of Grass series. Not the best writing around but it's relevant to what is happening today. |
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Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event.
Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon. |
Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event.
Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon. |
Fahrenheit 451... if you can still find it in print.
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Pigeons are Liars
If it flies, it spies. |
Big Dead Place (Amazon)
Big Dead Place - about doing general contract work for the government in antartica pretty interesting. they actually banned him from working there because he wrote this book and then he eventually killed himself. I think at some point in my life I would like to do a tour of duty in antartica. |
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"Unintended Consequences" by John Ross.
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“Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States,” ~ Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – aka Carlos the Jackal, 2003
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The Gulag Archipelago.
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Death to quislings.
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I just finished my first original Clancy book (Without Remorse) and it was fantastic.
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Most important way you can spend your time:
1) Anything by Thomas Sowel. Just finished audiobook - Black Rednecks and white liberals. It was GREAT! 2) Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules 3) Ayn Rand - Fountainhead 4) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - hardest read but by far the most important |
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I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K.I'll be part of this world
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ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC By Matt Bracken
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First Casualty by Toby Harnden.
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God fearing Christian American boomer!
FL, USA
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"Omnia mei donna Deo" Please pray for our country!
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Alea iacta est
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Lord of the Flies
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You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$
MI, USA
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Here are a few suggestions…So, what are you reading now
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. - Thomas Jefferson
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Non fiction (history)
Clear The Bridge- Richard H O'Kane-believe it is out of print but most of the on line book dealers can come up with a hard or soft cover |
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Brave New World.
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“the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
“the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
Animal Farm - George Orwell
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley |
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Veni Vidi Vici
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Chaos.
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All Quiet On The Western Front
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If I didn’t need the work I wouldn’t be here,
I’d be back home on the last frontier. . . |
Holy smokes! Thanks ARFCOM!
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Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.
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Chris
11M 84-87 Dare to be different - Arrogance Diminishes Wisdom Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee. The answer to 2022's leftist problem is 1973. |
John Steakley "Armor"
Neal Stephenson-Snow Crash, The diamond age, Cryptonomicon Cormac McCarthy- All the pretty horses, the Crossing, Blood Meridian Steven Erikson- The gardens of the moon, first in a monstrous fantasy series which remains my favorite...kind of a challenge so work up to this. |
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I'm currently reading Wrath of the Wendigo, based on another recommendation here. Highly recommend.
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"History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it." LtCol Allen West
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Catch-22
The Silmarillion One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |
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Official Arfcom Nickname: Mothball
"What's biting Glatigny?" "I think he's beginning to realize that we've got to play with fifty-two cards and he doesn't like it at all . . . Those twenty extra cards aren't at all to his liking." |
The Camp of the Saints. There's a free PDF of it out there, I'm pretty sure.
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Originally Posted By Trod7308: Not a very big reader. But I got 1984 after hearing about it over and over. I couldn’t put it down! Read it in a couple days. I am reading the immortality key. I can barely pronounce half the names in the book, but it is very interesting. Just can’t get into it like I did 1984. I asked before and said strictly non-fiction. But obviously that requirement is out the window. Please and TIA! View Quote https://www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?seriesOnly=true&currSection=sermonstopic&sourceid=gracenevada&keyword=An+Exposition+of+Ecclesiastes&keyworddesc=An+Exposition+of+Ecclesiastes |
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Originally Posted By backbencher: The Gulag Archipelago. View Quote https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago/Solzhenitzyn_-_Gulag_Archiepelago_-_104-104.mp3 Seconded. @backbencher I haven't gotten it yet, but in the same stream: Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?full=on&ac=sl&st=sl&qi=rRAeFrLCO8AmlSNT4ycKOeLB6yI_1667585693_1%3A1%3A1 Around 4$ used, 14$ new. |
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=Ordinary+Men%3A+Reserve+Police+Battalion+101+and+the+Final+Solution+in+Poland&lang=en&isbn=&new_used=*&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=timothy+snyder&title=Bloodlands+Europe+Between+Hitler+and+Stalin&lang=en&isbn=&new_used=*&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr ... and literally anything by Thomas sowell. Failed To Load Title |
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You must hate a Democrat as you would the Devil.
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. NorCal_LEO-assigned callsign Bulkhead |
We the Living Ayn Rand. I believe it's her shortest book therefore the easiest to read. Good augment to the Gulag Archipelago.
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Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event.
Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon. |
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Screwtape letters
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The Power of One
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Brave New World is the twin book of 1984. Written about 10 years apart, both very different, but both right about the West about 100 years after they were published.
If you liked 1984 you'll like Animal Farm. A parable of the Russian revolution and the sick hypocritical mentality of totalitarians. |
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“The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.”
—Frank Herbert |
Originally Posted By Switchback_Arms: Came to post this View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Switchback_Arms: Originally Posted By DJPodratz: Atlas Shrugged Came to post this Premise is good, the entire book is not. I gave up 3/4 of the way. So repetitive Animal Farm by George Orwell Flowers for Algernon Winds of War War and Remembrance |
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Way off the topic of 1984, I suggest The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors Hornfischer.....and Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy Toll. Both are amazingly well-written and descriptive.
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Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event.
Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon. |
Reading Don Quixote now and it’s quickly becoming my favorite book.
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