[Aimrehtopyh]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aimrehtopyh', '[')url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Hammer]Lucifer's Hammer[/url]
The Shock Doctrine
& a lot of Philip K. Dick

[dunewalker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', '
')I was always wondering why libertarians liked the book so much, now i know ! ...
One thing for sure: Like it or not, it's worth taking the time of reading it. My guess is that the Founding Fathers of the United States would have like this kind of book ..

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', ' ')but outgrew much of it during college years and beyond.

[dunewalker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')I could never stand her, personally. I read about half of "Atlas Shrugged" and threw it across the room.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', ' ')
Did you read the odd-numbered or even-numbered pages?

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', '
')I was always wondering why libertarians liked the book so much, now i know ! ...
One thing for sure: Like it or not, it's worth taking the time of reading it. My guess is that the Founding Fathers of the United States would have like this kind of book ..

[Twilight]

Building society annual statements & reports. Gripping stuff.

[jupiters_release]

US Army Survival Manual

[patience]

A Geology 101 text. Now THAT is dry!

Rereading Roberto Vacca's "The Coming Dark Age", 1974 edition. I must say he hit a lot of nails on the head. Hasn't scared me as much this time, as it did when I read it when it came out. I guess I'm getting jaded.

Read one called "The Great Trade Routes", another old text, that may give some insights into how future trade is carried out, with reference to such things as sail-powered ships and such.

[midnight-gamer]

I think I will have to reread the James Clavell novels, Starting with Shogun,Gai-Jin,and King Rat. I know I skipped a few, but those are my favorites.

[jasonraymondson]

I am reading 9 books at this moment.

Mastering Maya
The Art of War (4th time)
So Yesterday
Odd Hours
Islamic Well: Practical Guides for Living & Learning Islam
The Granularity of Growth
Mother of Lies
Latest Advances in Atomic Cluster Collisions
Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') am reading 9 books at this moment.

Mastering Maya
The Art of War (4th time)
So Yesterday
Odd Hours
Islamic Well: Practical Guides for Living & Learning Islam
The Granularity of Growth
Mother of Lies
Latest Advances in Atomic Cluster Collisions
Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

[CherBear1983]

Good books are hard to come by in Korea. The English section at the bookstore is very small. Luckily I am going back to Canada in less than a month!
I just finished "Tis" by Frank McCourt, now reading "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman.

[Dukat_Reloaded]

I've been reading alot of the books from mises.org

Ludwig Von Mises Theory and History

"Many people take pride in the fact that their ances-
tors or their relatives have performed great things. It
gives some men a special satisfaction to know that they
belong to a family, clan, nation, or race that has dis-
tinguished itself in the past. But this innocuous vanity
easily turns into scorn of those who do not belong to
the same distinguished group and into attempts to
humiliate and to insult them. The diplomats, soldiers,
bureaucrats, and businessmen of the Western nations
who in their contacts with the colored races have dis-
played overbearing effrontery had no claim at all to
boast of the deeds of Western civilization. They were
not the makers of this culture which they compromised
by their behavior. Their insolence which found its ex-
pression in such signs as "Entrance forbidden to dogs
and natives" has poisoned the relations between the
races for ages to come."

"The emphasis laid by sociologists upon mass phe-
nomena and their idolization of the common man are
an offshoot of the myth that all men are biologically
equal. Whatever differences exist between individuals
are caused, it is maintained, by postnatal circumstances.
If all people equally enjoyed the benefits of a good edu-
cation, such differences would never appear. The sup-
porters of this doctrine are at a loss to explain the dif-
ferences among graduates of the same school and the
fact that many who are self-taught far excel the doctors,
masters, and bachelors of the most renowned univer-
sities. They fail to see that education cannot convey to
pupils more than the knowledge of their teachers. Edu-
cation rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pio-
neers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools
are not nurseries of progress and improvement but
conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of
thought. The mark of the creative mind is that it defies
a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something
new to it. One utterly misconstrues the feats of the
pioneer in reducing them to the instruction he got from
his teachers. No matter how efficient school training
may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy,
and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men
pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors."

"They engage in the examination of the problems con-
cerned with the prepossession that only biased apolo-
gists of sinister interests can possibly contest the cor-
rectness of their socialist or interventionist dogmas. In
their eyes the mere fact that a man disagrees with their
ideas is the proof of his bias."

Murry Rothbard has some great books as well, some have even been converted to Mp3 such as "For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto", "what has government done to our money"

Those audio mp3's can be downloaded here
http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=author&ID=299

If I can listen to a book I prefer this than reading

I've read afew of Murry's other books too, he's a great author.

Another Interesting book is Codex Magica by Texe Marrs, if you can believe it, it will blow your mind.

[AnIowan]

- "The Long Emergency" which is down right scary when you stop and think a bit about it.

- "Square Foot Gardening" which will be how we break down one of our gardens next year (our oldest daughter got a purple ribbon on a 4-H gardening project, and wants to do more and this will be right up her alley).

- "The Road" which in it's bleakness was quite a read.

- "One for the Money" which was my guilty pleasure read for the summer.

I'm reading "The Last Lecture" and "Overshoot" right now.

[gampy]

Just finished "Eragon", and the second title in the series, "Eldest".

Actually not bad. Dragons, and Elves, and Dwarves, oh my!

It's more of a young adults' book, but sometimes stories made for kids, and teenagers are better than mature minded fiction.

A guilty pleasure.

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Schneider', 'H')i mercurygirl,

I'm reading the english version since it is mostly the only one available (and i've hear the french version was shitty at best). Yes, i've read a good deal of the book ! So far I'm around the 2/3 of the book (chapter "anti-life").

I was always wondering why libertarians liked the book so much, now i know ! Be warned, in the characters there is no "gray" shade..just back or white..good or bad, but not much in between. It show the destruction/collapse of the world because of the inevitable side effects of full blow statism (under a mix of socialism and facism) .

I'm ready to say it have already changed sone of my outlooks on life quite a bit. Things i always somewhat knew, but never understood clearly enough.

I did wondered why peoples around me listened the standards of thoses in power and tried to do the same for a good share of my life!

But as time passed, i was fighting the conflict between listening the "social democracy mantra" pushed here in Quebec province from cradle to grave again my own standards/believes. Yeah, i look a bit naive said like that, but what can i say? It was the case.

That being said, i am not a egoist bastard, peoples have to stick toguether..but not at the expence of some kind of human sacrifices.

One thing for sure: Like it or not, it's worth taking the time of reading it. My guess is that the Founding Fathers of the United States would have like this kind of book ..