Posted on 12/11/2012 12:40:02 PM PST by Genflag
I’ve actually been listening to Ilium by Dan Simmons the last few nights at work, and it’s pretty amazing, I like books that are dense, but not mind numbingly boring, and his writing seems to fit the bill.
Read 1984 back when I was in middle school, and someone stole my copy, so that was one of the first audiobooks I picked up.
I’ll have to check out The Coming Plague, one of the only things I worry I might not be able live through is the return of something like the Spanish flu.
and Atlas Shrugged is also already on the ipod for future listening.
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yeah, I’ve grabbed a few things from Librivox already, but I didn’t know about openculture.com, I’ll have to check it out.
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Pick up Michael Porter’s books “Competitive Advantage” and “Competitive Strategy.” These books lay the foundation to how business is conducted today, even though many business folks couldn’t name the Five Forces of Industry that are identified.
Never heard of him, I’ll give him a listen though.
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I’ve heard of them but I’ve never given them a read, anything in particular I should check out?
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The Turner Diaries would get you through half a shift.
I’m sure you can find a cheaper version in paperback, but this is a very good history:
I’d also recommend the CATO Institute at http://www.cato.org/events/archive.html
I’d check to see which version you have. There are many, but the best one is the unabridged audiobook of Atlas Shrugged. The version read by Christopher Hurt.
I’d also suggest Max Brooks’s The Zombie Survival Guide, and World War Z.
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Terry Brooks is good.
Plumbing??
The Thrawn Trilogy was pretty good. It’s Star Wars related.
I’m doing that right now per your suggestion, I just got The Satanic verses and the P.I.G. to Islam on audiobook today.
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I’ve never heard of the Great Courses, I’ll have to check them out, and I didn’t even think about Les Miserable, but now that’s on the list too.
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If you want to read The Turner Diaries (and you might, if for no other reason than as an academic excercise), I would buy a hardcopy at a gun show, rather than putting oneself on The List by downloading a copy.
That’s actually a decent idea, who knows when I’ll have to build a house and have to devise a plumbing system for sanitation when this country comes tumbling down from it’s own stupidity.
Awesome, History is one of those things they seems to forget to teach you when you go have to go to public school, so I’m always looking to learn more from a non-revisionist source.
Anything you would suggest as an intro to his work?
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