Comments on: The Bookworm Room list of recommended reading

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:23:43 +0000

To Midwest C,

Freehold can spark an interesting discussion concerning polygamy or more than 2 person romantic relationships, outside the eternal PC doctrine of “free love”.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:22:50 +0000

Midnight, his State of Disobedience actually predicts some of what’s going on under Obama. Except they thought it was going to be Hillary as President.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:21:46 +0000

Book, I think it just got too long and people were leery of adding in stuff that they thought might already be mentioned.

By: TommyC

TommyC — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:15:38 +0000

I know it is late, but a really fun novel is The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald (1959). Until I stumbled across it in a used book store, I thought it was just a movie (George C. Scott, Kirk Douglas and cameos by Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and more). I loved the movie, but the book is much better. Not conservative particularly – though certainly not liberal – just a good read. Not long and hard to put down, it is easy to get club members to actually read on or ahead of schedule. And it can provoke a good discussion about human evil – its nature, causes, etc. Out of print, but lots of used copies available via Amazon and elsewhere -and free for Kindle and other readers (I think).

I hate to confess, even though I polish off 50-100 books a year, I have read none of the other recommended books. I’d better get to work.

By: Midwest Chick

Midwest Chick — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:09:56 +0000

I’d like to add Freehold by Michael Williamson to the queue.

By: Midknight

Midknight — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:01:02 +0000

I’ve read a good chunk of the list – and I’m a bit surprised to see Caliphate on there – not that it isn’t very, very fitting.

That, his first (admittedly somewhat crappy ) book “State of Disobedience”, his books with Ringo, and his “New Earth ” series (desert Called Peace, Carnifex, etc.) are all nearly guaranteed to make PC-oriented heads explode.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:24:56 +0000

That's a lovely idea, Tonestaple. I think I could make that happen. And you're right that Books! petered out, because it was too distant, somehow, from the main intellectual energy at this blog.

By: Tonestaple

Tonestaple — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:19:34 +0000

Over at Ace of Spades, they have a weekly book thread on Sunday morning. Perhaps we could have a weekly chat here about what everyone is currently reading. (The Books page here seems to have mostly petered out….)

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:31:59 +0000

Late to the suggestion list: Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, by Stanley Kurtz