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List three easy to read books that you feel smarter after reading

Posted on 04/27/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT by MNDude

Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?


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To: aspasia

Exactly why I love it. She was just learning, so technically, it isn’t very good.

What is just endearing to me is that she paid attention to what I say, things I reference in books, the books she sees me pack in my bags when we go on vacation, things like that.

For another person to take note that carefully of the things that interest you, even someone you have been married to for many decades, is flattering in ways that I have a hard time describing.

That is what I find charming about it.

We don’t always draw a great hand in life, but with her, I surely did. That woman is absolute gold.


141 posted on 04/28/2024 6:07:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: ansel12

She is very shy about having her work appear anywhere on the Internet, so I usually respect that. I even had to photoshop her name out of it on this case for just that reason.

But there are times I am so proud of her, that I go against her wishes...:)


142 posted on 04/28/2024 6:09:24 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: MNDude

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143 posted on 04/28/2024 7:11:15 AM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: MNDude

Mad Magazine.


144 posted on 04/28/2024 9:03:27 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: castlebrew
Anything by Mark Levin.

I thought he said easy to read...

145 posted on 04/28/2024 12:34:44 PM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: MNDude

Green Eggs And Ham

Go Dogs Go

Horton Hears A Who


146 posted on 04/28/2024 12:43:33 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: MNDude

147 posted on 04/28/2024 7:31:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Combat_Liberalism

Those are on my to read list.
I had ancestors at the Battle of Point Pleasant which I have
been told is in the Frontiersman.


148 posted on 04/28/2024 7:34:39 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Rockingham

Yes Kirk!


149 posted on 04/28/2024 7:49:08 PM PDT by kalee
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To: Maris Crane; rlmorel

I agree with you both


150 posted on 04/29/2024 1:40:49 PM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is ~~. tell the storm how BIG your GOD is! )
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To: MNDude

Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”


151 posted on 04/29/2024 1:47:03 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Over the years people have tried to get me to read J.R.R. Tolkien. I say no I won’t read him as he has four initials and I find that too pretentious.

A friend of mine in high school (who had a dog named Bilbo) talked me in to reading “The Hobbit.”

I’m so glad he did, because I read that one and then devoured the LOTR series, finding each book to be better than the previous one.

152 posted on 04/29/2024 1:50:20 PM PDT by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: TheWriterTX

“ A Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich, also by Soltzhenitsyn.”

Every high school student in this nation should have to read this very short book. Most have never even heard of the Gulag. This would open their eyes about freedom and its loss.


153 posted on 04/29/2024 2:27:38 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: goo goo g'joob

Well, Mark Levin’s works are hardly Dick and Jane, but you will be smarter for having read them.

More pissed-off at the commies that have infiltrated things, but smarter.


154 posted on 04/30/2024 6:25:03 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: Combat_Liberalism

Every American child should read Eckert before graduating High School. Best series on America ever written.


155 posted on 04/30/2024 6:44:20 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: ABN 505

Amen. I believe Eckert is still alive.


156 posted on 05/02/2024 5:32:35 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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To: kalee

It is. You’re also going to find details about that battle in A SORROW IN OUR HEART [SUBTITLED] THE LIFE OF TECUMSEH by Allan Eckert. All his books are easy and fun to read.


157 posted on 05/02/2024 5:42:22 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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