Best Books

Studs Terkel: Coming of Age, read it!

even on indy press, expand ya mind

 

Recently...erh
The communist manifesto & critic of the Gotha program
L'autre moitié de l'amérique du sud (the other half of south american), by André Corten
Je hais le développement personnel (I hate self-help), by Robert Ebguy

 

i just got done reading fahrenheit 451 and it was awesome!

 

Not at all, Marx is much more subtle than most people realize. It's just communists who act like he's some kind of preacher...

 

indeed, don't take his word as the word, there are others too so he ain't god and keep ya feet in an anarchist stance, marx threw the anarchos out in the day but meh, he had 'some' great ideas, movin on, if get bogged down ya can't breath, and thats no good aha.

 

Just Devoured "Seven Red Sundays" A Novel of Revolutionary Spain by Ramon J. Sender
inspiring to say the least.

 

What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

I'm in the middle of reading Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality and The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives .

I would recommend Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Ishmael.

What books are you reading or what books would you recommend?

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

stud terkels - coming of age
push

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

Right now I'm reading Peter Hamilton's The Reality Dysfunction. Someone recommended him to me so I'm giving him a go, good so far.

In terms of my own recommendations, well, for those into fantasy Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenent series is bloody good. He's also written a sci-fi series which I will get around to reading sometime soon.

The book I've really enjoyed most recently is Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna. It's historical fiction set in the US and Mexico in the 1930s-50s.

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

Re-reading Living My Life Vol 1-2

Id definitely recommend Off The Map. Its one of the Crimethinc books. One of my favourites, really well written and cheap as hell!

Also No Logo and Rebel Life : Murder By The Rich.

May seem like an obvious recommendation but the amount of people i know who have not read Cather In The Rye is truly astounding.

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

I'm going to be reading Off the Map next.

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

Something completely different, but does anyone else read the National Geographic mags?
I would highly recommend them for the photo's alone and I'm not even into photography. The stories are good too and they don't seem to be too afraid to touch on social or environmental probs, however their main objective is and always will be to sell by giving info, to finance further studies.
Then again you get about 1 mag each month for about 25 bucks (in Euros anyway).

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

The Men with the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

i was reading a post somewhere here about the death of howard Zinn so i decided to wat all the fuss was about and i read the first chapter of "A people's histry of the united states" and even though im not even american...i LOVED the first chapter!!
i highly recommend it

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

Uhh, right now reading a book that's a mashup of Spider Robinson and Robert Heinlein. Previous to this one a star wars book, and next up is a book on the rise and fall of socialism.

I would recommend "Please Kill Me: An Uncensored Oral History of Punk" by Legs McNeil and somebody else. Reading that book helped me really understand what punk was about, and it was only a matter of time until I discovered anarcho-punk and fell completely in love

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

I really love the books by Milan Kundera. He is a great writer. His storys act about the relationships of people the permant ambivalences between themselves in the contextes of their political and cultural settings. Really great. i EAT this books. Especially: The Immortality, The Book of Laughering and Forgetting, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Joke, The Identity

I also love the books by Hermann Hesse, especially Siddharta, Steppenwolf, Demian, Narziss and Goldmund

 

check out Easter Rising by Michael Patrick McDonald, it's a memoir about growing up in south boston, getting into punk rock, going to ireland to trace family roots... loved it.

 

Re: What are you reading or what books would you recommend?

I'd suggest Calvin & Hobbes - IMHO it's the most essential reading material ever committed to paper. Six-year-old anarchists with tiger best friends are a winning combo.