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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by dwtcos, Nov 29, 2009.

  1. voluntaryistpunk

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    currently reading "the kingdom of god is within you" by leo tolstoy and "the ethics of liberty" by murray rothbard. recommend "no treason: the constitution of no authority" by lysander spooner(http://jim.com/treason.htm) and "healing our world: the other piece of the puzzle" by dr. mary j ruwart(http://www.ruwart.com/Healing).
     
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    yeah, i'd definitely recommend 1984 and brave new world.
    also, you can get a PDF online of this book that i'm reading called "evasion."
    it's really good so far.
     
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    theres an autobiography by Luis Bunuel, made me feel Im not so crazy after all. Also try Naked Lunch by S.Burroughs if you have the guts
     
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    Just finished Eric F. Russels "Planet of Disobedience" - I'm not quite sure about the titles translation, 'cause I got only the german version. It's written very entertaining, but it's message is like a manual "how to defend yourself against heavily armed aggressors". He wrote it 1951 and it was first published in "astounding science fiction" in the US.
     
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    Sun Tzu's Art of War
     
  6. A Better World

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    Authors, poets, and books

    All politics aside (sort of), anyone else on here enjoy reading?
    Id like to hear what other people are reading or reccomendations of what one should read.
    Currently Im on a beat kick reading alot of Alan Ginsbergs poetry and Jack Kerouacs novels( On The Road, Dharma Bums) and constantly rereading William Burroughs Naked Lunch for its pure chaotic insane genius. Also on my third attempt to get through Leo Tolstoys War and Peace in its entirety. Oh yeah and Bukowski. Always Bukowski.
     
  7. vAsSiLy77

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    A great beatnik I will re-read some day: Ed Sanders - Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volumes 1 & 2 and his just brilliant The Family: The Story of Charles Manson's Dune Buggy Attack Battalion. Ginsberg is fun, his background aside, but the first part of "Howl" is a fucking most important poem of the century - Paul Bowles was a beatnik too, but I was reading his short stories mostly in germun. If you liked Kerouac, try Ted Simons "Jupiters Travel" and his later books.
    Special recommendation: Czechs Novelists Bohumil Hrabal or Jaroslav Haseks "The Good Soldier Svejk", which is still quite famous and dangerous funny to read.
     
  8. Corporate Deathburger

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    I always enjoy Orwell's stuff.

    And always been embarrassed of, but really like Chuck Palahniuk's stuff. He's a homosexual radical from Portland, gotta love it. :D
     
  9. Anxiety69

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    I just finished reading the complete SPY VS. SPY (from Mad Magazine) by Antonio Prohias. In all seriousness, Prohias had an interesting life, he was a political cartoonist in cuba, and he did a lot of funny communist strips, mosty involving a hammer and sickle somehow messing with a character or not so subtly hidden somewhere in the strips (which were wordless) until Castro came admitted he was a communist (i guess he denied it for the first few years of his reign) then he put a price on Prohias's head, so he fled to the USA by airplane (this was before it was made hard for people to leave cub.) In the usa he sent for his family, and literally walked into the offices of Mad Magazine with his portfolio, and his spy vs. spy strip he had created for the magazine, and was hired on the spot as a freelancer with his 14 year old daughter translating for him (and she barely spoke english either.) and what was intended to be a one or two time gig for Prohias turned out to last him pretty much until the rest of his life (due to health he was forced to retire, and the strip was taken over by other writers and illustrators where it continues. So there's the story in a nutshell, but Spy VS. Spy played off the cold war paranoia of the era, and the inept spies always trying to one up each other was a pretty strong metaphor for it also.

    Just thought i'd share that because i found it an interesting biography / Cartoon collection :)

    )in anyone cares i can try to scan a few and upload them here, if you like communist humor)
     
  10. punkmar77

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    Yes please Anxiety..
     
  11. KAAOS-82

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    Anything by Albert Camus or Nietzsche is a must for the free thinker and person wanting absolute freedom.

    On a side note I recommend punks to read Burning Britain and the Day the Country Died by Ian Glasper
    Two necessary texts on the UK punk scene between 1980 to 85. Provides lengthy information about the bands of that time as well as comprehensive discographies.
     
  12. Caps

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    Thought I'd resurrect a book reading thread. Just finished Faranheit 451 for the first time. Wasn't blown away - preferred 1984, Brave New World and WE as dystopian fiction. I might follow this up with more Bradbury as I picked up Dandelion Wine for cheap at a second hand bookshop. Recently went a bit mad with purchases - got a bell hooks book on Feminism, a pamphlet on Anarchism and Primitivism and one on Maletesta, all from Active Distro as well as God Knows by Heller, The Midwich Cuckoos by Wyndham and some short stories by Bulgakov and Hanif Kureishi.
     
  13. snookams

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    just finished reading 1985, the gripping sequel to 1984.
     
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    The thing about Bradbury is that it is a wonderful introduction for children into the horrors that Orwell fleshed out in his writings, I seriously think their is none better at engaging very young readers....

    Currently reading 'From Ike To Mao And Beyond, My Journey From Mainstream America To Revolutionary Communism' a memoir by Bob Avakian
     
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    you aren't going to make many friends here reading sell out bs like chomsky.
     
  17. dwtcos

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    yo, jessfive, i'm really happy for you and imma let you finish, but dwtcos's "best books" thread was one of the best "what are you reading?" threads of all time!
     
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    and Now they are one and the same, thanks for the heads up....
     
  19. Kerstbal

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    I absolutely love Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers, it really was a wake up moment for me, it shows a society where people don't have to be killed to stop them from being free, instead, their own greed and need to prove themselves enslaves them. Even though it was written in the Soviet Union by a banned writer, I think it also really shows what's wrong with the western world.
     
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    I'm reading a book of Fernando Salvater , a spanish philosopher, doctorated in ethics . The name of the book must be something like "philosophical dictionary" , it's about tons of philosophical words like : democracy, sports , religion , hapyness , and a lot of comments related to our society.
    Nothing political .
    :D
     
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