Whats your favourite book? - political or otherwise

[celticsocialist]

Without a doubt mine is Trinity by Leon Uris. It is set in Ireland and takes in the time of the famine up to the Easter Rising. I would urge anyone remotely interested in this sort of thing to read it!

[Michael]

Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" is my favourite.Not a political book of course,but kind of touches me deeply.

[Valkyrie]

:ph34r:

[DaNatural]

my favorite book/s, are political. One of my favorites has to be the Republic by Plato, the writing style is amazing and the ideas in it are beyond expression of words. Id also have to say the book on che by jon anderson is also excellent, i also thoroughly enjoyed, state and the revolution by lenin. peace

[MJM]

Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice.
My all time fav. and worth reading.
It's about vampires, god and the devil.

[vox]

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway will always have a very dear place in my heart. I believe I've read it more times than any other novel.

vox

[I Will Deny You]

Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

[Sasafrás]

Well, I don't read too many books that I actually like, especially of the ones that I am assigned for school. But, considering what the book is about and how much I liked it anyway, I think one of my most favorite books is "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles. I also really like "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago & "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston.. Those are 3 really good books. :)

[tyronelad]

The Commitee was actually good. It shows the unusual, and somewhat unreal evidence that a 'commitee' was controlling the loyalist death squads in northern ireland, with full support of a shadowy group within the RUC and UDR. It also shows how this group tried to undermine the journalist investigating by setting a number of traps.

Another Book is paddy woodworths 'Dirty war, Clean hands' which shows how during the height of the ETA campaign in the early 80's, the young 'democratic' spainish state supported the use of the GAL to attack ppl in the French Basque country in order to put pressure on the French government to hand over ETA suspects. This book does get very heavy, and it is very hard to remeber who is who in the tongue twisting mix of Basque names and Spainish

[Supermodel]

The Millionnaire next door
A lesson before dying
The Three musketeers
The only investment guide you'll ever need
Thoughts of Chairman Mao
Das Kapital
A brief history of time
Einstein's theory of relativity
The no spin zone
Bias
The black book of communism
Colin Powell's autobiography

[pce]

The Stranger
Catch-22

[Fires of History]

All the books mentioned so far are great!

Also, total personal fav: Hamlet

It really digs deep into the individual's reasons for fighting against the evils in the world, as well as the responsibilities of the individual in the face of corrupt and tyrannous governments.

Power to the People,
Trance

[Thine Stalin]

Catch 22
100 years of solitude
I never promised you a rose garden
Thats it really.. I like a couple others but these are my favorites

[anarchoveganLAM]

i recommend:

*anything by SE Hinton
*seize the time: bobby seale
*autobiography of malcolm x
*anything by emma goldman
*anything by noam chomsky
*i-ching
*art of war by sun-tzu
*anything by abbie hoffman
*animal farm: george orwell
*what is communist anarchism? by alexander berkman
*anything by murray bookchin

dont read ayn rand-shes bad and brainwashing manipulative

[Rosa]

I recommend: Diels "Pre-socrats"...amazing, amusing,good for beginning liberating of your mind...

[Bakunjin]

Camus: The Plague, The Stranger, The First Man
Orwell: 1984
Nietzsche: Also sprach Zaratustra
Borges: Aleph

[red senator]

I recomend "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsen. It is well written and very interesting.

[Guest]

Greatest book ever is easily "All Quiet on the Western Front"
That really gets you thinking and wondering...

[PunkRawker677]

1984 by orwell
i-ching or 'book of changes'(anarchoveganLAM your the only person i have ever seen read this besides me)
square dancing in the ice age by hoffman
Companero by jorge castenade
Grendel

[red senator]

"Grendal" is a good book. Someone put it on my school's summer reading list and then all of the southern baptist parents had a shit-fit because it says "fuck" in the book.

[PunkRawker677]

yea.. lol.. he talks really dirty.. but it makes the book more personal.. its not just fancy literature.. its down to earth (yet, its got quite a complicated vocaulary for someone of the younger readers).. its an overall amazing book with the best ending i have ever read!

[MJM]

Wasn't Solzhenitsen a nazi supporter?
I read the book 'one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich'.
But changed my opinion of it when I heard this.

[red senator]

Where did you hear Solzhenitzen was a Nazi supporter? From all the information I have seen, he fought against the Nazis when he was in the red army(he made it to the rank of Captain). He was arrested and discharged from the red army though when censors read a letter of his in which he made critical remarks about Stalin. He was sentenced without trial to eight years in a labor camp.

[MJM]

http://www.tiac.net/users/knut/Stalin/node118.html


Besides, said Solzhenitsyn, the Vlasovian collaborators were more anti-Communist than pro-Nazi:



Solzhenitsyn did not object to the Germans being fascists, but to the fact that they were stupid and blind fascists. If they had been more intelligent, the German Nazis would have recognized the value of their Russian brothers-in-arms and they would have allowed them a certain level of autonomy



We should thank Solzhenitsyn for his disconcerting candor: the man who best incarnated the `millions of victims of Stalinism' was a Nazi collaborator

(Edited by MJM at 12:50 pm on April 1, 2002)

[Valkyrie]

Kafka - The Trial

[Revolution2002]

Definately Michael Bulgakov.... What an amazing satirican.... You must read the following books which are critisizm of the USSR:

The Black snow
Heart of a dog(or something resembling that)
The Satan in Moscow

[munkey soup]

"The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger.
"Rebels: the irish uprising of 1916" Peter De Rosa
"Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis" Frank McCourt
"The Plague" Albert Camus

-Anything by H.P. Lovecraft (He was a product of early 20th century Victorian living meaning he was a slight rascist, but he writes amazing Horror/Macabre stories)

-Anything by J.R.R. Tolkien, the best fantasy writer, some, including myself, argue the best writer of fiction as well, of the 20th century.

[Fires of History]

Jesus christ Munkey Soup! You quote Patrick Pearse, you like Camus, and you like Tolkien. Am I related to you somehow?

Instead of books, I'll focus on authors you shouldn't miss:

Marx
Che
Camus
Chomsky
Orwell
Tolkien
Nietzsche
Sartre
Shakespeare
...and oh so many more I'm forgetting right now.

And for the love of all that is good, read "Ismael" by Daniel Quinn as well.

Munkey Soup, you also like "Angela's Ashes"!? Damn boy, let the DNA testing begin lol!

[munkey soup]

I've been meaning to pick up some Chomsky and Nietzsche but currently I'm reading four books at the same time so I think I might hafta wait a bit.

Fav play by Shakespeare: "Hamlet" of course.

And Frank McCourt plays with words like no other.

[Kingnothing]

Top five books i´ve ever read:
1984 by Orwell ; La trukulenta historia del Kapitalismo (rough translation:the bloody story of capitalism) by Rius ; Cuba Existe es Socialista y no esta en coma (rough translation: Cuba exists, it is socialist and it is not in a coma) ; Authoritarian Argentina by Rock ; El Capital By Karl Marx.

[PunkRawker677]

i forgot about catcher in the rye

[Kingnothing]

In the message i posted before i forgot to say that i have the books that i mentioned if anyone in argentina (buenos aires) would like to borrow them.

[Fires of History]

Quote: from munkey soup on 5:14 pm on April 2, 2002
Fav play by Shakespeare: "Hamlet" of course.


DAMN! Yes, let the DNA testing begin. In my Lounge introduction, I go on and on about Hamlet, because it is one of my favorite books of all time. The existential argument about the very reason to continue living, the individual versus the corrupt state, illusion versus truth, and the search for meaning in such a fake system, etc, etc...

Damn! You rock. Keep it up Munkey :-)

Cool To Know Cool People,
Trance

[deadpool 52]

Most have already been said so . . .

Dostoyesky's Crime and Punishment, Letters From the Underground
Tolstoy's War and Peace, Ressurection
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury
Machievelli's The Prince
Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn

I am sure there more

[guerrillaradio]

I should really read more...

George Orwell - 1984
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Naomi Klein - No Logo
Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation
Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Albert Camus - The Outsider
J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
Chuck Paluhnick (sp??) - Fight Club