Advice for an absolute MUST read book list?
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I guess it doesn't have to be a book. This is the list of the ones I've read/listened to so far that I think are tremendously interesting or important (I know, it's a short list):
World Without Cancer, by G. Edward Griffin,
The Creature from Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin,
Borax Conspiracy (article: https://pforlife.com/borax-conspiracy.html)
Currently I'm listening to Tragedy and Hope 101 by Joseph Plummer (if you're familiar with Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley, this is just a synthesis of that long and difficult to find book.) Additionally I'm planning on reading The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo next.
If you have any strong recommendations, please share!
This is probably obvious but these are the books that must be read by everyone, at some point in their lives (I've read most of these in high school or college, but it's never too late to start!):
Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, The Communist Manifesto (you have to know exactly the kind of trash these people read and believe. This one is a slog to get through but it's laughable how stupid Marx's ideas are.), Plato's Republic, etc. The only one I never got around to was 1984, but I've read so many small excerpts from it that I feel like I've already finished it.
If you don't have time to read 1984, go watch the movie with John Hurt as the lead. It's well done.
Also, I always recommend that people read Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1924 novel We. It was one of the inspirations for Orwell writing 1984. The Soviets considered it slanderous against socialism. Yes, it skewered socialism. And Zamyatin had been a Bolshevik until he got a good look at how that was all shaping up.
Apparently, there is a new version being sold on Amazon which subtly alters the meaning of the original text. Get an old edition.
Orwell and Huxley, for sure.