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The Bible/simple rules/hope/humility. "The Jungle"/Upton Sinclair, a good look at humanity. Many by Garrison Keillor, a humorous look at everyday life in the Midwest.
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The" Gulag Archipelago", a great insight to what is to come, for all those "Woke" window lickers! Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author.
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In the middle of 'Atlas Shrugged' right now... So timely it's not even funny! Ayn Rand was a visionary
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself. Coach Bryant.
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So many good ones but Atlas Shrugged stands alone for me.
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God’s Smuggler By Brother Andrew
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan
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Make Gitmo Great Again!! Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?
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In the middle of 'Atlas Shrugged' right now... So timely it's not even funny! Ayn Rand was a visionary
Not really. She spoke of the history she had lived through.
Inevitably, history repeats itself.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for citizenship/voting privileges (sorta kidding) along with Animal Farm and 1984.
"Socialism produces bad music, bad art, social stagnation and really unhappy people", “I am a conservative, and you may not like that, but I am.” Frank Zappa 1986
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In the middle of 'Atlas Shrugged' right now... So timely it's not even funny! Ayn Rand was a visionary
Read it while driving around Zimbabwe in 2000, when they were kicking farmers off their land. Read a section, look around and see it happening.
That said, I think she got paid by the word.
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Some other favorites: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas For Whom the Bell tolls The Sun Also Rises Forrest Gump (unlike and ridiculously better than the movie) Slaughterhouse Five Catcher in the Rye Heart of Darkness Authors I love, hard to go wrong with: Hemingway McCarthy Salinger Vonnegut Checkhov Kate Chopin Ray Bradbury Chuck Klosterman Hunter S. Thompson
You and I would get along swimmingly. Especially when you mentioned Cormac. Then there are the non-fictions...
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I tend to like non-fiction But have read many of those listed here. The bible has become a favorite since I became a christen. Some not mentioned are; All of the journals about Lewis & Clarke. Alaska wolfman, Anything about the westward movement and settlement of the west.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mody Dick by Herman Melville.
As Ron Sawnson from Parks and Recreation said, "It's just a book about a man that hates an animal."
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I'm actually re-reading it right now. Love it.
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The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell.
Yup.
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Can't pick one. The Old Man and The Sea. Travels with Charley in Search of America. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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