Posted on 02/26/2006 8:17:27 PM PST by 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)
The Holy Bible, Radical Son, The Communist Manifesto, The Federalist Papers, Unintended Consequences.
...oh yeah, and Uncle Tom's Cabin, too.
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.
All else that has followed can be traced back to that one.
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
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.
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
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
Recently: 'State of Fear'
Overall: The Bible
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
The works of Orwell, both 1984 and Animal Farm.
Do comic books count?
Orthodoxy - GK Chesterton
Free To Choose - Milton Friedman
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