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VANITY... Books That Have Influenced You

Posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:27 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear

What books have influenced your political, religious, or historical reasoning?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: books; history; lists; philosophy; politics; religion
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Bible
Applied Economics -Thomas Sowell
Fair Tax -Neal Boortz & Senator John Linder
Screwtape Letters -C.S. Lewis
Atlas Shrugged -Ayn Rand
Vision of the Annointed: Social Policy as
a basis for Self-Congratulation -Thomas Sowell
On Combat -Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
The Good Earth -Pearl S. Buck
1984 -George Orwell
Animal Farm -Orwell
James Brown: Godfather of Soul (autobiography)


41 posted on 02/26/2006 9:01:47 PM PST by MonicaG (Grateful to our troops & veterans - thank you!!!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Holy Bible, Radical Son, The Communist Manifesto, The Federalist Papers, Unintended Consequences.


42 posted on 02/26/2006 9:02:19 PM PST by therut
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To: Maigrey

...oh yeah, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, too.


43 posted on 02/26/2006 9:03:15 PM PST by MonicaG (Grateful to our troops & veterans - thank you!!!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
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44 posted on 02/26/2006 9:08:41 PM PST by Rakkasan1 (Muslims pray to Allah, Allah prays to Chuck Norris.)
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To: M0sby
This Present Darkness. Frank Peretti

I realize TPD is fiction, but it opened my eyes to the spiritual battlefield around us. Or I should say its made me more aware of the spiritual realm. Though I don't actually know what is actually happening spiritually around me.

45 posted on 02/26/2006 9:11:05 PM PST by mountn man (Tact is for people not witty enough to be sarcastic.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
"One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish." That was the 'gateway' book.

All else that has followed can be traced back to that one.

46 posted on 02/26/2006 9:11:09 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

As a child, The Martian, Pelucidar, and Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Out of the Silent Planet - CS Lewis

Just about anything by Heinlein...

Das Kapital by Karl Marx, what little I read of it in a Marxist economics class. I kept fallign asleep, so I read what other people wrote about it, and then parrotted back what the professor said in class... I got a B+

On the Beach - Nevile Schute (sp?)
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller
Hitchhikers Guide - Douglas Adams
Animal Farm, 1984 - George Orwell
I never cared all that much for Vonnegut, but Harrison Bergeron was an eye-opener, especially the televised version with Sean Astin, which went farther that Vonnegut did in the story. Excellent teleplay, and a good story.

Harlan Ellison - Mostly for his "Dangerous Visions" collections, which introduced me to many other wonderful writers, like Fritz Leiber, Theodore Sturgeon and Piers Anthony. While I disagree with him on most political issues, I enjoyed his "Glass Teat" collections as well, and many of his short stories and novellas.

And the ever popular, "Too many to list!"

Mark


47 posted on 02/26/2006 9:11:57 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

I have been working on that list (and, could it ever be finished? I hope not!) and what I ahve so far is on my Blog, here...

http://www.publiusforum.com/zpubliusconserbooks.html

If you are a conservative, you should check it out.


48 posted on 02/26/2006 9:11:59 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Bible
Jim Elliot -- (diaries) Shadow of The Almighty
Francis Schaeffer -- Trilogy: The God Who Is There/Escape From Reason/He is There and He is Not Silent
VW Von Hagen -- The Roads that Led to Rome
V.S. Naipaul -- Among the Believers
Robert Creamer -- Babe
Frederick Forsyth -- Day of The Jackal
Christy Matthewson -- Pitching in a Pinch
Jack London -- White Fang


49 posted on 02/26/2006 9:13:05 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Holy Bible
Brave New World...Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm...George Orwell
1984...George Orwell
The Art of War...Sun Tza
The Federalist Papers...Alexander Hamiliton, John Jay, James Madison
Origin of Species...Charles Darwin


50 posted on 02/26/2006 9:15:27 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Recently: 'State of Fear'

Overall: The Bible


51 posted on 02/26/2006 9:15:51 PM PST by GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos (LIBS = Lewd Insane Babbling Scum)
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Business books by successful entrepreneurs...
52 posted on 02/26/2006 9:16:37 PM PST by tubebender (Everything I know about computers I learned on Free Republic...)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Bible
Jim Elliot -- (diaries) Shadow of The Almighty
Francis Schaeffer -- Trilogy: The God Who Is There/Escape From Reason/He is There and He is Not Silent
VW Von Hagen -- The Roads that Led to Rome
V.S. Naipaul -- Among the Believers
Robert Creamer -- Babe
Frederick Forsyth -- Day of The Jackal
Christy Matthewson -- Pitching in a Pinch
Jack London -- White Fang


53 posted on 02/26/2006 9:17:11 PM PST by Migraine
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To: Minus_The_Bear
The Bible
This Present Darkness
Piercing the Darkness
Prophet
The Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Les Miserables
54 posted on 02/26/2006 9:17:28 PM PST by One4Indictment
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To: Minus_The_Bear

The works of Orwell, both 1984 and Animal Farm.


55 posted on 02/26/2006 9:19:25 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Archangel86
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

yep. no competition.
56 posted on 02/26/2006 9:20:58 PM PST by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Do comic books count?


57 posted on 02/26/2006 9:21:32 PM PST by dmw
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To: Minus_The_Bear

Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton
Free To Choose - Milton Friedman


58 posted on 02/26/2006 9:26:21 PM PST by Chesterbelloc
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To: Minus_The_Bear
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer
The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell
The Holocaust, Martin Gilbert
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nazi Germany, Klaus P. Fischer
59 posted on 02/26/2006 9:27:46 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Petronski
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
60 posted on 02/26/2006 9:33:47 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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