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« Reply #50 on: July 04, 2013, 10:47:19 PM »

I finished George W. Bush's book "Decision Points", about two weeks ago. I started a biography about Laura Bush, but I have not had time to complete it as of yet.

I literally have no idea how you could stand to do this.
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« Reply #51 on: July 23, 2013, 12:21:13 PM »

it may come as a surprise to comrades here that I am reading Whittaker Chambers' Witness, and enjoying it.
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« Reply #52 on: August 03, 2013, 09:07:23 AM »

Scott maybe you'd like to try http://www.amazon.com/Familiar-Stranger-Introduction-Jesus-Nazareth/dp/0802826806
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« Reply #53 on: August 07, 2013, 11:38:36 AM »

good selection man.
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« Reply #54 on: August 31, 2013, 05:04:45 PM »

Nabokov - Lolita; Whittaker Chambers' autobiography Witness; Trotsky - The Revolution Betrayed.
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« Reply #55 on: October 23, 2013, 11:46:32 AM »

Does God Exist? - Hans Kung has been taking up much of my time.  my mom is going to give me the P/V translation of Dostoevsky - The Idiot for my birthday come Sunday.
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« Reply #56 on: November 06, 2013, 03:36:13 PM »


he's a freshman in college, not everyone brushes up on economic historiography at age 12.
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« Reply #57 on: November 09, 2013, 12:59:43 AM »

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« Reply #58 on: December 06, 2013, 07:19:16 PM »

Reading the Communist Manifesto online right now.

we lost a while ago, nobody knows exactly when, but they know we lost.  much as in Genesis 1-3.  we know it happened, we know it's true but we don't know when it happened, which opens a window for all the exploiters to say "not this, but that", and run the world on these train tracks that lead to a cliff with a social fire on the other side.
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« Reply #59 on: December 19, 2013, 05:23:43 PM »

Resa Aslan - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth


I was able to get it for $13 so I took the plunge.  it's relatively well done, and written for a mass rather than an academic audience, unlike most of the reading on religion/theology I've done over the past few years, which is refreshing, in its own way.  he focuses on the 'historical Jesus' and takes great pains to place him within the context of the socio-political situation of first-century Palestine, especially vis-a-vis the relationship between the Jewish cult and the Roman occupation.

I did skip ahead and read the chapter on Paul, towards whom Aslan can barely conceal his enmity, fwiw.
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« Reply #60 on: December 20, 2013, 01:46:16 PM »

Resa Aslan - Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth


I was able to get it for $13 so I took the plunge.  it's relatively well done, and written for a mass rather than an academic audience, unlike most of the reading on religion/theology I've done over the past few years, which is refreshing, in its own way.  he focuses on the 'historical Jesus' and takes great pains to place him within the context of the socio-political situation of first-century Palestine, especially vis-a-vis the relationship between the Jewish cult and the Roman occupation.

I did skip ahead and read the chapter on Paul, towards whom Aslan can barely conceal his enmity, fwiw.

I've heard that this book makes so many historical errors that it's barely worth picking up and it repeats 19th century German scholarship that's mostly rejected today.  As a layperson who's interested in getting the hard facts about Jesus, I tend to avoid the highly disputed stuff.

can you point me towards where you've heard?
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« Reply #61 on: December 20, 2013, 06:06:24 PM »

thanks. cool blog
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« Reply #62 on: December 26, 2013, 10:04:31 PM »

just got these two in the mail today.  for less than $13 thanks to the good (and probably overstocked) folks @ christianbook.com


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« Reply #63 on: August 24, 2014, 05:39:37 PM »

Spider in a Tree: A Novel of the First Great Awakening by Susan Stinson. I don't know quite what I expected when I heard that there was a historical novel about Jonathan Edwards's household by a writer previously known primarily for lesbian-themed fiction, but I know that I was not expecting this to be as incredibly good as it is so far.

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« Reply #64 on: January 11, 2015, 12:57:35 AM »

I have not, but I have to concur. As far as Marxist writers go, Trotsky was probably the most readable, which probably stems from his stint (IIRC) as a journalist. After that, I'd say the next most readable is Engels, followed by Lenin, and Marx at the absolute bottom, lol. Stalin is accessible, but vapid and has literally no grasp of theory, so I won't dignify him with a ranking. (Although that might be my Trotskyite prejudices shining through Wink)

Trotsky was more than 'readable', he was a brilliant writer and brilliant man.  he was more of a complete human being than Lenin or Stalin.  Karl Kautsky is another interesting figure who wrote on diverse subjects.  he was open to ideological and personal evolution and died as something of a Tolstoyan pacifist.
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« Reply #65 on: March 15, 2015, 03:00:56 PM »

highly recommended for everybody, but I suspect Nathan especially would enjoy it.

Rowan Williams - "Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction"
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« Reply #66 on: March 15, 2015, 04:20:53 PM »

no, though he does (implicitly) expect you to be readily able to recall scenes from the four major works (Underground Man, Idiot, C&P, Karamazov).  personally it hasn't been a problem for me though some complain about it.
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« Reply #67 on: May 04, 2015, 10:37:20 PM »

Michael Parenti's Make Believe Media, which was pretty good.

Parenti sure is a fun read for those with left-wing sympathies.  he doesn't hold back.  a liberal professor all but refused to let me cite him in a paper, calling him a "loaded source".  I could hardly object.
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« Reply #68 on: May 04, 2015, 10:48:42 PM »

I just read The Kronstadt Rebellion by Alexander Berkman, great read that I very much recommend to my Bolshevist friends TNF and Snowstalker.


And the link:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/berkman/1922/kronstadt-rebellion/index.htm

hah.  Kronsradt is the white-knuckle issue within the revolutionary left.  everyone has a life-or-death opinion on it.  anyone who criticizes the Bolsheviks is an "infantile leftist", as Our Father Lenin tagged them ca. 1919.
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« Reply #69 on: May 05, 2015, 02:08:15 PM »

Chomsky has a dry sense of humor, occasionally you'll pick it up.  he doesn't tell overt jokes.
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« Reply #70 on: May 15, 2015, 06:47:24 PM »

Thomas, the Other Gospel by Nicolas Perrin

Reading John by Christopher Skinner


the latter is more or less aimed at undergrads, but it's still something worth picking up, IMO.
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« Reply #71 on: June 12, 2015, 01:43:31 AM »

a good read for anyone on the Left: Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937

https://www.academia.edu/7379675/Class_Culture_and_Conflict_in_Barcelona_1898-1937_London_Routledge_2005
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