What is your all time FAVORITE book?

[Chi-townChief]

John Stormer's "None Dare Call It Treason" was probably the book that most influenced my political thinking.

[fuente]

Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy for light reading is alway fun.

[Koblenz]

Some Great Books:

The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth. A novel set during the first Gulf War. Great writing, great research. Will keep you absolutely riveted.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes. A good read of why some countries are rich and others are poor.

Mirage by James Follett (not Ken). A British book about how the Israelis stole plans for the Mirage fighter after France stopped selling them to Israel. The other books he's written are pretty bad, but this one was magnificent.

The Bottom Line by James Harman. A great novel from Britain about a ruthless Businessman in the 1970s and 1980s.

Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell. Short bios of those who have advanced liberty throughout the ages.

Ronald Reagan by Dinesh D'Souza.

[jodorowsky]

A lot of it is online, if you'd like to peruse it first.

Oh, wow... they really are posting it, chapter by chapter. Thanks for the link.

IMO the institution of "school" is one of the biggest problems we face in defending liberty. It warps minds, getting them used from an early age to thinking that it is normal to sit quietly in an assigned place and obey orders from strangers.

As you'll learn when you read The Underground History of American Education the new purpose of schooling - to serve business and government - could only be achieved efficiently by isolating children from the real world, with adults who themselves were isolated from the real world, and everyone in the confinement isolated from one another. Only then could the necessary training in boredom and bewilderment begin. Such training is necessary to produce dependable consumers and dependent citizens who would always look for a teacher to tell them what to do in later life, even if that teacher was an ad man or television anchor.

As for the original question in the thread, I recommend Solzhenitsyn's GULAG ARCHIPELAGO. I read it when I was about your age and it definitely... expanded... my resolve against socialism.

[PJ-Comix]

A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe.

Good but not as good as Bonfire Of The Vanities.

[SamAdams76]

Stephen King is a guilty pleasure of mine and The Stand ranks up there pretty high. I saw the TV miniseries on it and it was pretty good. But again, no substitute for the book itself. About 10 years ago, King released a version of The Stand that had some 300 extra pages. Evidently the publishers made him cut a lot of material from this book before he became very famous. Well worth checking out if you are only familiar with the original version.

[Archangelsk]

It's a tie between The Bible, actually The Torah, and Das Kapital. Sort of makes a nice duality don't you think? :-)

(Hope everyone can take a joke here).

[Capitalism2003]

wow...5 minutes and I already have quite a collection...thanks alot everyone! Keep posting...I'm writing them all down. :)

[OldFriend]

And The Fountainhead!

[csmusaret]

From Here to Eternity!

[fnord]

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Explores the importance of values in life, and how to deal with the real way the world works.

[CharacterCounts]

Try "A Country with No Name" by Sebastian de Grazia.

While its not nonfiction its not exactly fiction either. Its an entertaining and educational read.

[Petronski]

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

My God, what a wonky answer to give, true. But it is the best single work of history I have ever read.

[TheBigB]

Anything by P.J. O'Rourke, especially ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD and GIVE WAR A CHANCE

OUT OF THE ASHES by William W. Johnstone

AT ANY COST by Bill Sammon

[fuente]

Bought the Ultimate Hitch Hiker's Guide in gold leaf and hardback last time I was in Chicago for $12

[PJ-Comix]

From Here To Eternity by James Jones was definitely THE Great American Novel. We discussed it recently at the Freeper Reading Club.

[midwestmidnight]

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart.

An old story from a different perspective.

[mrs slocombe]

To Kill a Mockingbird.

[PJ-Comix]

From Here to Eternity!

Recently discussed at the Freeper Reading Club.

[SamAdams76]

Speaking of your book club, let me remind everybody that your reading assignment for this month is the short stories of Raymond Chandler. I ordered the "Everyman's Library" collection of all his short stories and should get it sometime this week. It was only $19.25 - not a bad value at all for 1,344 pages! I won't have time obviously to read the entire book before our discussion but I'll at least read the two stories you assigned and a couple of the others.