posted ago by TickleTh1sElmo
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Got myself a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas, and I need some recommendations from patriots. Any types of books. Hopefully I get a few MAGA recommendations as well.
Got myself a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas, and I need some recommendations from patriots. Any types of books. Hopefully I get a few MAGA recommendations as well.
1984 and it’s free
Tragedy and Hope-Carroll Quigley
Love Letter to America-Yuri Bezmenov
Color,Communism, and Common Sense- Manning Johnson
Lolita- Nabokov
Les Miserables (unabridged)- Victor Hugo
The Dark Interval-Rilke
The Divine Comedy- Dante
Never hurts to go back to Narnia either long after childhood has been left behind...
Excellent list, and especially seconding Dante and Rilke. I've been learning German, or at least trying to, just so that I can hopefully read Rilke in original form before my time comes. I don't think there's any writer whose work affects me the way his does. I hadn't heard of Caroll Quigley; Tragedy & Hope sounds amazing.
MAGA recommendations (other pedes chime in, I'm just listing a few to get started):
The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump
Righteous Indignation - Andrew Breitbart (this one should be mandatory reading, IMO)
Licensed To Lie - Sidney Powell
The Federalist Papers - Madison, Hamilton, Jay
1984 and Animal Farm - George Orwell
I am a YUGE fan of Tolkien (LOTR), Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time), Frank Herbert (Dune)
If you're looking for anything Christianity-related, you can't go wrong with C.S. Lewis - Screwtape Letters, Narnia, etc
TONS of classic fiction out there
Great list! Love Tolkien and Lewis as well.
For non fiction The road to serfdom. The naked communist
And for fiction I'd recommend the unincorporated man or the equations of life
I highly recommend anything by Alistair MacLean, Alydia Rackham, Gillian Bradshaw, C.S. Forester, Michael Crichton, and Patrick O'Brian.
One Second After - William R Forstchen Term Limits and/or Extreme Measures- Vince Flynn
Books I Recommend
Unintended Consequences by John Ross Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan The Underground Story of American Education by John Taylor Gatto The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann The Adventurers by Harold Robbins Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlien Moral Man and Immoral Society by Reinhold Niebuhr Ishmael by Daniel Quinn In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander Have Spacesuit-Will Travel by Robert Heinlien Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Portman A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick The Rich and the Super Rich by Ferdinand Lundberg The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar The Treason of the People by Ferdinand Lundberg
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - An enormous, bleak account that should be required reading in every high school. I'll probably never get through all the volumes, but it's a life changing read even so.
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer - Another doorstopper of a book, but a fascinating account of the regional British cultural roots that form the foundations of various areas of the US. It's one of my very favorite American history books.
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - An analysis, warning, and destruction of identity politics. There are a lot of interviews with him online, so if you aren't already familiar with him, you can see one or two of them and decide of you want to read more. He's brilliant.
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz - A very pertinent dystopian novel, depicting state and bureaucratic control, tyranny, and manipulation, based on the author's experiences of the Arab Spring. Those for whom Orwell or Kafka resonates will find a lot to consider in this one. It centers around an official building called the Gate, which issues arbitrary decrees, and from which citizens are required to line up to get the paperwork for everything in their lives. Yet the gate never opens, and the line just gets longer. The way that the press, politicians, and unelected bureaucrats like Fauci have treated the coof vaccine reminds me so much of the way that the state officials in the book dangle the hope that "once the gate opens and you comply, you can all get your lives back." Imho, it should be a classic beside 1984.
The Collected Works of Cicero. The founding father of the Founding Fathers. Razorfist does a better job here of summarizing why he's so important than I ever could. He's also a fun read - a magnificent and witty orator, who absolutely dismantles his opponents, and delivers, not nuggets, but diamonds, of wisdom as well.