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What is your all time FAVORITE book?

Posted on 01/29/2003 7:19:10 PM PST by Capitalism2003

need some conservative book recommendations...


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To: The Duke
During the Clinton years I though of Randall Flagg (not the Freeper, mind you) more than once. In the movie if you look at those who are evil, you see they all are very typical liberals.

You've got that right!! Which is probably why I read it so many times. I liked seeing evil destroyed.

21 posted on 01/29/2003 7:26:13 PM PST by marvlus
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To: Capitalism2003
Never without Heros
22 posted on 01/29/2003 7:26:48 PM PST by squirt
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To: Capitalism2003
I'd really like something released in the past 5 years or so...somewhat up to date with the issues in politics..Any other suggestions?

Try "Vision of the Anointed" by Sowell.

23 posted on 01/29/2003 7:27:17 PM PST by Fzob (Why does this tag line keep showing up?)
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To: Capitalism2003
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "


24 posted on 01/29/2003 7:27:18 PM PST by StriperSniper (Start heating the TAR, I'll go get the FEATHERS.)
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To: Capitalism2003
"Blue Highways"
William "Least Heat" Moon.
25 posted on 01/29/2003 7:27:46 PM PST by SonnyBubba
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To: Capitalism2003
An easy answer would by J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings. I have read that book several times and could easily read it again. Great literature despite what the literature snobs might say about it. And the movies, as good as they are, are no substitute at all for reading the book itself.

But more challenging fare lies in the works of Winston Churchill. Either his 7-volume set The Second World War or his 4-volume History of the English Speaking Peoples are highly recommended. I find the WW2 series especially fascinating as Churchill himself was at the center of many of the events. As thorough an account of that war as you could ever want.

26 posted on 01/29/2003 7:27:50 PM PST by SamAdams76 ('Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens')
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To: Capitalism2003
Bastiat, "The Law" c1840?? Hyeck bump
27 posted on 01/29/2003 7:28:50 PM PST by dasboot (Up periscope! Range? Bearing? Fire one!)
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To: Capitalism2003
Anybody read "Roosevelt's Secret War?"

Loved "John Adams" by David McCullough which I read last year.

28 posted on 01/29/2003 7:28:56 PM PST by what's up
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To: squirt
Sorry "Heroes"
29 posted on 01/29/2003 7:28:56 PM PST by squirt
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To: Capitalism2003
Modern Times by Paul Johnson

Radical Son by David Horowitz
30 posted on 01/29/2003 7:29:31 PM PST by bballbob
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To: The Duke; All
I just started reading "Road to Serfdom" this very day.

Lucky you. I wish I could read it again for the first time. Here's a link you might enjoy: The 100 Greatest Nonfiction Books of the Century

31 posted on 01/29/2003 7:29:40 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Capitalism2003
"thanks yall...looking for something to read just a teeny bit lighter than the Holy Bible right now.."

Well, The Collected Works of Jane Austen, is lighter and easier reading than the Bible.

Delightfully catty too.

32 posted on 01/29/2003 7:29:47 PM PST by billorites
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To: Capitalism2003
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver
33 posted on 01/29/2003 7:30:11 PM PST by Maigret
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To: zarf
"Shogun" by James Clavell. I've read it 4 times. All 1526 pages.
34 posted on 01/29/2003 7:30:37 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (No Nippon go ga hanase masen.)
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To: dts32041
Re: Starship Troopers by RAH
The Brotherhood of War

Make that anything written by RAH or WEB Griffin.

35 posted on 01/29/2003 7:31:03 PM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (If God Hadn't Wanted Fully Automatic Weapons, He Wouldn't Have Made All Those Armadillos!)
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To: SonnyBubba
And "Huckleberry Finn"
36 posted on 01/29/2003 7:31:31 PM PST by SonnyBubba
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To: billorites
Atlas Shrugged
37 posted on 01/29/2003 7:32:04 PM PST by TheExploited (Who was that John Galt guy anyway?)
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To: Capitalism2003
B-sides the Bible, there is The Charm School; Animal Farm; first 3 vols of the Foundation; Gold Coast; and Mark Twain's Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
38 posted on 01/29/2003 7:32:30 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: zarf
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test.

This was the second book discussed in the Freeper Reading Club. If you want to be a member of the Freeper Reading Club, please FreepMail me and I'll put you on the Ping List. We discuss about one assigned book every month.

39 posted on 01/29/2003 7:32:30 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Redundancy Can Be Quite Catchy As Well As Contagious)
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To: Capitalism2003
Earth As It Is In Heaven

Catcher In The Rye

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

40 posted on 01/29/2003 7:32:36 PM PST by MatthewViti
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