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Trod7308

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Posted: 11/2/2022 3:55:06 PM EDT

Not a very big reader. But I got 1984 after hearing about it over and over.

I couldn’t put it down! Read it in a couple days.

I am reading the immortality key. I can barely pronounce half the names in the book, but it is very interesting. Just can’t get into it like I did 1984.

I asked before and said strictly non-fiction. But obviously that requirement is out the window.

Please and TIA!

dashender Joined Sep 2011 Posts 601 EE 100% (149) NE, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:13:16 PM EDT [#1] The Brothers Karamazov

kered Member Joined Feb 2010 Posts 952 EE 100% (8) FL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:14:35 PM EDT [#2] Have you read Brave New World? Kinda similar but not really to 1984. 1984 is all about forcing people into submission. Brave New World is all about distracting the populace with entertainment to pacify them.

Freiheit338 America, FUCK YEAH! Joined Aug 2009 Posts 6575 EE 0% (0) SD, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:15:53 PM EDT [#3] Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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lp6 Joined Aug 2011 Posts 85 EE 100% (11) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:17:24 PM EDT [#4] Animal Farm

NotIssued Member Joined Apr 2011 Posts 11241 EE 100% (230) USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:38:54 PM EDT [#5] Starship Troopers.

Kujoe Can you run faster than 1200 feet per second? Joined Mar 2006 Posts 7345 EE 100% (23) MO, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:39:24 PM EDT [#6] Crime and Punishment
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DJPodratz Joined Jan 2013 Posts 239 EE 0% (0) MN, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:42:07 PM EDT [#7] Atlas Shrugged

Vellcrow Member Joined Aug 2004 Posts 1012 EE 100% (48) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 4:56:52 PM EDT [Last Edit: Vellcrow] [#8] Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Not a joke, it was actually a pretty good read. For me at least.

TNZ71 Unemployed Joined Nov 2010 Posts 12150 EE 100% (2) USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:00:48 PM EDT [#9] Enemies Foreign and Domestic
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AlvinYork Pissed off, retired, nothing to lose. Joined Jan 2009 Posts 79480 EE 0% (0) IL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:14:43 PM EDT [#10] Forever War Behind Every Blade of Grass series. Not the best writing around but it's relevant to what is happening today.
	Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event. Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon.

AlvinYork Pissed off, retired, nothing to lose. Joined Jan 2009 Posts 79481 EE 0% (0) IL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:16:30 PM EDT [#11] Quote History Originally Posted By kered: Have you read Brave New World? Kinda similar but not really to 1984. 1984 is all about forcing people into submission. Brave New World is all about distracting the populace with entertainment to pacify them. View Quote A Canticle for Leibowitz
	Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event. Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon.

Andr0id Member Joined Jan 2010 Posts 10742 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:18:12 PM EDT [Last Edit: Andr0id] [#12] Fahrenheit 451... if you can still find it in print.
	Pigeons are Liars If it flies, it spies.

aridcat Member Joined Jun 2020 Posts 1268 EE 0% (0) AZ, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:39:24 PM EDT [#13] Big Dead Place (Amazon) Big Dead Place - about doing general contract work for the government in antartica pretty interesting. they actually banned him from working there because he wrote this book and then he eventually killed himself. I think at some point in my life I would like to do a tour of duty in antartica.

LibertyShip Member Joined Jan 2001 Posts 12224 EE 0% (0) GA, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:39:48 PM EDT [#14] "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross.
	“Only a coalition of Marxists and Islamists can destroy the United States,” ~ Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – aka Carlos the Jackal, 2003

backbencher Managing Member of Mischief Joined Nov 2005 Posts 64570 EE 100% (2) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:41:45 PM EDT [#15] The Gulag Archipelago.
	Death to quislings.

mudholestomper Member Joined May 2020 Posts 5599 EE 100% (37) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:48:45 PM EDT [#16] I just finished my first original Clancy book (Without Remorse) and it was fantastic.

mudholestomper Member Joined May 2020 Posts 5600 EE 100% (37) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:53:39 PM EDT [#17] Quote History Originally Posted By LibertyShip: "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross. View Quote Hard to find a copy these days. At least at anything close to a reasonable price.

TxAthlete42 Joined Sep 2020 Posts 1871 EE 0% (0) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 5:57:11 PM EDT [#18] Most important way you can spend your time: 1) Anything by Thomas Sowel. Just finished audiobook - Black Rednecks and white liberals. It was GREAT! 2) Jordan Peterson - 12 Rules 3) Ayn Rand - Fountainhead 4) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - hardest read but by far the most important

davidenorth Member Joined Aug 2003 Posts 3906 EE 100% (24) MN, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 6:06:01 PM EDT [#19] Quote History Originally Posted By Andr0id: Fahrenheit 451... if you can still find it in print. View Quote Was going to post this. Also a decent older movie.
	I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K.I'll be part of this world

widerstehe Member Joined Nov 2009 Posts 12595 EE 100% (5) USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 6:14:09 PM EDT [Last Edit: widerstehe] [#20] ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC By Matt Bracken

gsd1983 Member Joined Jul 2014 Posts 1340 EE 100% (142) TX, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 6:31:36 PM EDT [#21] First Casualty by Toby Harnden.

tightlines49 God fearing Christian American boomer! Joined Mar 2013 Posts 2281 EE 100% (197) FL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 6:43:37 PM EDT [#22] Quote History Originally Posted By lp6: Animal Farm View Quote Another prophetic look at our current situation by Orwell. The most correct answer of those must reads suggested so far.
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Switchback_Arms Member Joined Apr 2008 Posts 2971 EE 100% (22) USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 6:46:05 PM EDT [#23] Quote History Originally Posted By DJPodratz: Atlas Shrugged View Quote Came to post this

Ambridge77 Member Joined Nov 2020 Posts 6342 EE 0% (0) VA, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 7:00:04 PM EDT [#24] If you like historical-based novels: It took me 28 years before I read it. I love U.S. Civil War history and stories. I should've read it much earlier.
	Alea iacta est

Global_Cooling Member Joined Apr 2010 Posts 6086 EE 0% (0) FL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 7:07:19 PM EDT [#25] Lord of the Flies

MidMichHunter You get a $1,000,000,000,000 & you get a trillion$ Joined Mar 2008 Posts 5077 EE 100% (605) MI, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 7:33:50 PM EDT [#26] Here are a few suggestions…So, what are you reading now
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nhsport Team Member Joined May 2002 Posts 17001 EE 100% (1) CT, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 8:04:31 PM EDT [#27] Non fiction (history) Clear The Bridge- Richard H O'Kane-believe it is out of print but most of the on line book dealers can come up with a hard or soft cover

grinning_bob Member Joined Nov 2010 Posts 6018 EE 100% (30) IL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 8:55:40 PM EDT [#28] Brave New World.
	“the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

grinning_bob Member Joined Nov 2010 Posts 6019 EE 100% (30) IL, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 8:56:46 PM EDT [#29] Quote History Originally Posted By Andr0id: Fahrenheit 451... if you can still find it in print. View Quote Solid choice. I prefer Brave New World as a follow on to 1984.
	“the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

GroundhogOZ Member Joined Jun 2020 Posts 1787 EE 0% (0) AUS	Posted: 11/2/2022 10:21:54 PM EDT [#30] Animal Farm - George Orwell A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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snakeyes711 Member Joined Sep 2009 Posts 3097 EE 98% (65) NC, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 10:34:28 PM EDT [#31] Chaos.

Bigfish9202 Member Joined Mar 2004 Posts 2579 EE 100% (164) WI, USA	Posted: 11/2/2022 10:49:31 PM EDT [#32] All Quiet On The Western Front
	If I didn’t need the work I wouldn’t be here, I’d be back home on the last frontier. . .

Trod7308 Joined Jan 2014 Posts 396 EE 100% (20) IL, USA	Posted: 11/3/2022 10:58:43 AM EDT [#33] Holy smokes! Thanks ARFCOM!

CB1 Bradley Gunners do it with chains Joined Nov 2000 Posts 16130 EE 100% (2) TX, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 7:46:15 AM EDT [#34] Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London.
	Chris 11M 84-87 Dare to be different - Arrogance Diminishes Wisdom Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones, it bones for thee. The answer to 2022's leftist problem is 1973.

Smurf10161 Member Joined Sep 2010 Posts 1898 EE 100% (2) TX, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 9:02:47 AM EDT [#35] John Steakley "Armor" Neal Stephenson-Snow Crash, The diamond age, Cryptonomicon Cormac McCarthy- All the pretty horses, the Crossing, Blood Meridian Steven Erikson- The gardens of the moon, first in a monstrous fantasy series which remains my favorite...kind of a challenge so work up to this.

diggerwolf Member Joined Sep 2007 Posts 4771 EE 100% (3) TX, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 9:21:09 AM EDT [#36] I'm currently reading Wrath of the Wendigo, based on another recommendation here. Highly recommend.
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skinny79 The Good Jeff Davis Joined Mar 2006 Posts 21957 EE 100% (3) NC, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 9:50:01 AM EDT [#37] Catch-22 The Silmarillion One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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FaygoJoe Joined Dec 2021 Posts 752 EE 0% (0) MHL	Posted: 11/4/2022 2:01:18 PM EDT [#38] The Camp of the Saints. There's a free PDF of it out there, I'm pretty sure.

FlashMan-7k

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Posted: 11/4/2022 2:11:44 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By Trod7308:
Not a very big reader. But I got 1984 after hearing about it over and over.

I couldn’t put it down! Read it in a couple days.

I am reading the immortality key. I can barely pronounce half the names in the book, but it is very interesting. Just can’t get into it like I did 1984.

I asked before and said strictly non-fiction. But obviously that requirement is out the window.

Please and TIA!

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FlashMan-7k

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Posted: 11/4/2022 2:15:41 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By backbencher:
The Gulag Archipelago.

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https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago/Solzhenitzyn_-_Gulag_Archiepelago_-_104-104.mp3

Seconded.

@backbencher

I haven't gotten it yet, but in the same stream:

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?full=on&ac=sl&st=sl&qi=rRAeFrLCO8AmlSNT4ycKOeLB6yI_1667585693_1%3A1%3A1

Around 4$ used, 14$ new.

FlashMan-7k

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Posted: 11/4/2022 2:20:11 PM EDT

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=Ordinary+Men%3A+Reserve+Police+Battalion+101+and+the+Final+Solution+in+Poland&lang=en&isbn=&new_used=*&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=timothy+snyder&title=Bloodlands+Europe+Between+Hitler+and+Stalin&lang=en&isbn=&new_used=*&destination=us¤cy=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

... and literally anything by Thomas sowell.

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Mariner82 Underway is the ONLY way Joined Jan 2013 Posts 38205 EE 0% (0) VA, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 5:39:23 PM EDT [#42] Quote History Originally Posted By Andr0id: Fahrenheit 451... if you can still find it in print. View Quote
	You must hate a Democrat as you would the Devil. Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. NorCal_LEO-assigned callsign Bulkhead

AlvinYork Pissed off, retired, nothing to lose. Joined Jan 2009 Posts 79483 EE 0% (0) IL, USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 7:57:01 PM EDT [#43] We the Living Ayn Rand. I believe it's her shortest book therefore the easiest to read. Good augment to the Gulag Archipelago.
	Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event. Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon.

Sorry_Your_Girl_Lost Member Joined Feb 2015 Posts 3270 EE 100% (72) USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 8:16:57 PM EDT [#44] Attached File

dedreckon Member Joined Mar 2010 Posts 8223 EE 100% (1) USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 8:35:16 PM EDT [#45] Screwtape letters

mattcz Joined Mar 2015 Posts 2735 EE 0% (0) USA	Posted: 11/4/2022 8:43:18 PM EDT [#46] The Power of One

raven What a time to be alive Joined Feb 2001 Posts 97397 EE 100% (1) AK, USA	Posted: 11/5/2022 1:50:18 PM EDT [Last Edit: raven] [#47] Brave New World is the twin book of 1984. Written about 10 years apart, both very different, but both right about the West about 100 years after they were published. If you liked 1984 you'll like Animal Farm. A parable of the Russian revolution and the sick hypocritical mentality of totalitarians.
	“The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.” —Frank Herbert

entropy

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Posted: 11/5/2022 2:00:18 PM EDT

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Originally Posted By DJPodratz:
Atlas Shrugged

Came to post this

Premise is good, the entire book is not. I gave up 3/4 of the way. So repetitive

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Flowers for Algernon
Winds of War
War and Remembrance

AlvinYork Pissed off, retired, nothing to lose. Joined Jan 2009 Posts 79487 EE 0% (0) IL, USA	Posted: 11/5/2022 2:32:23 PM EDT [#49] Way off the topic of 1984, I suggest The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors Hornfischer.....and Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy Toll. Both are amazingly well-written and descriptive.
	Our current situation is a disaster, wrapped in a fiasco, enveloped in a massacre, surrounded by a cluster event. Biden, American Quisling. Let's Go, Brandon.

jmb9 Joined Jul 2020 Posts 1088 EE 0% (0) GA, USA	Posted: 11/7/2022 4:56:13 PM EDT [#50] Reading Don Quixote now and it’s quickly becoming my favorite book.

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