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Book Recommendations?
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:40 am
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:40 am
I have a friend recovering from a surgery and looking for a couple good books to buy him.
He’s mid 50s vet / right leaning libertarian
MAGA all the way
I am not a reader so recommendations are welcome
Thanks in advance
He’s mid 50s vet / right leaning libertarian
MAGA all the way
I am not a reader so recommendations are welcome
Thanks in advance
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 10:42 am
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Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:50 am to BAMBAM
I'm still reading Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer and I love every chapter. It's about early British colonists to the US...1600s. Those people were very big on keeping diaries and we still have them. Most are surprising and some are hysterical.
The chapter on sex in the Southern Colonies...women were brutally punished for adultory. No punishment for men. In Virginia the people had a saying: Question: 'What is a virgin?' Answer: 'A young girl who can outrun her Uncle.'
The chapter on sex in the Southern Colonies...women were brutally punished for adultory. No punishment for men. In Virginia the people had a saying: Question: 'What is a virgin?' Answer: 'A young girl who can outrun her Uncle.'
Posted on 9/20/25 at 10:57 am to Zach
young men and fire" by norman McClean
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:00 am to BAMBAM
Anything by Thomas Sowell.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:01 am to BAMBAM
quote:
right leaning libertarian
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:02 am to BAMBAM
Rightwing Revolution by Charlie Kirk
I ordered that one yesterday.
I ordered that one yesterday.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:03 am to BAMBAM
Try the Philokalia then get back to me
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:08 am to BAMBAM
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:09 am to msutiger
Came here to post this.
In light of recent events he may also want to check out the Screwtape Letters.
If he wants to read fiction, tell him to check out Ken Follett’s Pilars of the Earth.
I read it last year and it’s one of those books you can’t stop thinking about and it’s a letdown when it’s over. Like CS Lewis it’s not so much political, but it’s about religious people and does have melding with politics overtones. So freaking good. Modern Classic.
In light of recent events he may also want to check out the Screwtape Letters.
If he wants to read fiction, tell him to check out Ken Follett’s Pilars of the Earth.
I read it last year and it’s one of those books you can’t stop thinking about and it’s a letdown when it’s over. Like CS Lewis it’s not so much political, but it’s about religious people and does have melding with politics overtones. So freaking good. Modern Classic.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:18 am to BAMBAM
Gates of Fire
L.A. Confidential
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Silence of the Lambs
The Legend of Bagger Vance
L.A. Confidential
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Silence of the Lambs
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:21 am to BAMBAM
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:27 am to BAMBAM
The Holy Bible.
The last chapter contains big spoilers about what's happening and where it leads.
The last chapter contains big spoilers about what's happening and where it leads.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:29 am to BAMBAM
"Somebody's Gotta Say It" by Neil Bortz
"Born Fighting" by James Webb
"Born Fighting" by James Webb
This post was edited on 9/20/25 at 11:30 am
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:30 am to Wednesday
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If he wants to read fiction, tell him to check out Ken Follett’s Pilars of the Earth.
Ken Follett wrote a very good non-fiction book "On Wings of Eagles".
It's about the team Ross Perot put together to rescue two of his execs that had been imprisoned during the Iranian revolution in 1979. It's one of those that is hard to put down.
Also, any of Ayn Rand's novels. They are all classics.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:35 am to BAMBAM
quote:
libertarian
quote:
MAGA all the way
Both of these descriptors can't be true.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:42 am to BAMBAM
Wimpy, Weak, and Woke by John L. Cooper
Posted on 9/20/25 at 11:51 am to Green Chili Tiger
I know right he’s a self described libertarian but loves trump or at least most of trump
But he is against big government
But he is against big government
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:01 pm to BAMBAM
1776
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:07 pm to BAMBAM
The Gulag Archipelago Vols 1&2 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Posted on 9/20/25 at 12:08 pm to BAMBAM
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