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Post by dclxvi on Jun 24, 2013 13:16:06 GMT -8
Books books and more books.
Here's a list of my strong recommendations:
Christopher Hitchens - god is not Great, Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, The Portable Atheist
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma
Stephen Pinker - The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has declined, The Language Instinct
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene, The Magic of Reality
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World
Sam Harris - The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Human Values, Letter to a Christian Nation
Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy
H.L. Mencken - The American Language
George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia
Karl Marx - The Communist Manifesto
Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Stephen Hawking - The Grand Design
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Post by Coltorl on Jun 24, 2013 13:22:07 GMT -8
Stephen Colbert- I Am America and So Can You
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Post by dclxvi on Jun 24, 2013 13:24:20 GMT -8
Stephen Colbert- I Am America and So Can You Oh man, we used to listen to that on MP3 when we were on patrol in Baghdad. Piss-your-pants hilarious.
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Post by lazmonkey on Jun 26, 2013 9:25:04 GMT -8
Books books and more books. Here's a list of my strong recommendations: Christopher Hitchens - god is not Great, Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, The Portable atheist Add Hitch 22 to that list, absolutely fantastic book! And I cant remember what they are called, but he has a couple of books out that are just collections of his articles, also definitely worth a read!
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Post by dclxvi on Jun 26, 2013 13:19:01 GMT -8
Books books and more books. Here's a list of my strong recommendations: Christopher Hitchens - god is not Great, Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, The Portable atheist Add Hitch 22 to that list, absolutely fantastic book! And I cant remember what they are called, but he has a couple of books out that are just collections of his articles, also definitely worth a read! I could have just said entire catalogs for most of these authors, but I tried to give as succinct a list as possible.
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Post by lazmonkey on Jun 26, 2013 14:05:49 GMT -8
Add Hitch 22 to that list, absolutely fantastic book! And I cant remember what they are called, but he has a couple of books out that are just collections of his articles, also definitely worth a read! I could have just said entire catalogs for most of these authors, but I tried to give as succinct a list as possible. Fair, I read through your list and just thought..... oh my wallets going to hate me!
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Post by dclxvi on Jun 30, 2013 0:49:52 GMT -8
Oh, come on. I'm sure that me and Lazy aren't the only people here that read books that don't involve sparkling vampires and BDSM fan-fictions about sparkling vampires.
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