What’s the best book you read in the past year? #bookstr
Read Ayn Rands “We The Living” right before xmas. Loved it.
It is great. I read it a few weeks ago
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Currently: Scale by Geoffrey West https://image.nostr.build/ebdd4eb63ba2619b9c2b91348b99c275210242e31db8a54af71bda3a966d43f6.jpg
A re-read of Ender’s Game
The Dragon’s Prophecy. By Jonathan Cahn. (Not perfect in his analysis, but a very worthy read.) https://m.primal.net/Kpus.jpg
River of Doubt. Roosevelt’s (the good Roosevelt) exploration of a river in Brazil. Fantastic.
I appreciate the clarification of “the good Roosevelt” 🤌
there was a good one? Teddy was crazy fdr implemented social programs that are not affordable at least not anymore
Good being relative. Maybe I should have said “The Bad Ass one”
The Book of Mormon.
The Daily Stoic. It’s good, but it will probably take me another 8 months to get through it.
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace.
Fantasy / Waformed Series The Iron Prince + Fire & Song by Bryce O’Connor Practical / Non-Violent Communication by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg Animal / How To Be Your Dog’s Best Friend by The Monks of New Skete Health / The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle & Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza Spiritual / The Greatest Words Ever Spoken by Steven K. Scott
Appreciate the categorized list 🙏
🫡 let me know you’re favorite genre to read and I’ll give you a much more complete list… I’ve got a long Sci-Fi Fantasy list I’ve been curating for years if you like that kind of stuff
Ooh, do you have any you could add to this list? nostr:nevent1qqs0ht44hlyyz69k3aqw7xvdxq39rs85w9j7cp55gc7xucvspek0tpgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmnt9upzpkkwvwcqcshxuqtaqrw3jz5n9quxqqhlt9acg844a7gauncuapy3qvzqqqqqqyt6w3lx
Annam, Christophe Bataille: https://image.nostr.build/f793b1c2363197d36c8cf0d0e8669349c9f4d66c137c25ba95cb58bae0f234ef.jpg
And: How (not) to be secular, James K. A. Smith: https://image.nostr.build/32c0cac57d801afb33250cfcdc998fe08144810c26d0261a611053667c58a7d4.jpg
Everyone's a Theologian by R.C. Sproul. Very high-level overview of Christian Theology. Its a relatively light read on a heavy subject. Second is The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb. How the Uniform Commercial Code allows secured creditors to claim custodied assets before any retail claims in the event of the custodian's failure.
Nonfiction: The Fourth Turning is Here, Neil Howe Fiction: The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe (A four part series written in the eighties, looks like fantasy on the surface, but is actually a dystopian sci-fi of a far future Earth in which the sun is beginning to dim and contains layers upon layers of symbolism)
I really enjoyed The Chronicles of Narnia earlier this year. Last year I read through the Little House series for the first time. That was excellent, I look forward to teaching some of the low time preference lessons in those books to my children.
Have any boys? You should check out the “Little Britches” series. Every lesson I don’t want to miss out on teaching my boys and many I needed to hear again myself.
I'll have to look that up
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The Liveship Trilogy by Robin Hobb
A Lodging of Wayfaring Men Narrated by Max Hillabrand on Fountain Bought the book after listening to the first chapter. And your welcome.
Glad you liked it.
The Alchemist. by Paulo Coelho. A wonderful story with deep meaning. Very profound but, at the same time entertaining. 'Lesson Summary. The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho and published in 1988. In the story, Santiago, the main character, embarks on a journey from Spain to Egypt and a search for his Personal Legend. When Santiago arrives in Tangier, his plans take a turn for the worse when he's robbed.' The Alchemist reminds us that each of us can make our own lives—and the world around us—better. But we have to put in the work and be willing to have the courage to confront our dreams: “That's what alchemists do. They show that when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” https://m.primal.net/KqCU.jpg
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Great Book
“The passenger” by Cormac McCarthy
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I read nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm 's daily Nostr note novels ... I don't have time for physical books
One of the most impactful books I've read is Broken Money by @LynAlden. I’ve lost track of how many of her interviews I’ve watched. Lyn is one of the most knowledgeable and insightful individuals in the field. I’ve learned an incredible amount from her, and I’m deeply grateful for her generosity in sharing her time and expertise. Her willingness to educate others, especially on topics like her macroeconomic outlook and Bitcoin, has been invaluable to my understanding of these subjects.
‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig Closely followed by ‘Lola in the Mirror’ by Trent Dalton #bookstr
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Hold on to your Kids by Gabor Mate or Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto were some of my favourite books in the last year. Took me a bit to get through the Gabor Mate book, but I learned so much! 💯
Fiat Food by Matthew Lesziak and The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. Both quite different topics but both the same idea that we're getting it all wrong on a massive scale! A very entertaining read was The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's based on true events but reads like fiction..
Growing up I was always a book worm 🐛 📚 For me, trips to the local library were a weekly (if not twice weekly) adventure that I always looked forward to… I would disappear into the stacks and read the first 10 pages of everything that was interesting to me, and come back out with a huge pile in my arms… smiling and showing my Mom that I struck gold 🙌🏼 The smell of paper and the feel of the well worn pages… the respectful and almost spiritual stillness that hung in the air… weighing you down with the knowledge that, in this place, we are all in our own world… and each of us gets to choose which world to enter… that heavy silence said, “respect it, don’t break the spell… take what you want, and leave in peace…” I always loved the invisible, yet real connection between me and the person who dog-eared a page that they loved as a silent hint that something vital was about to be learned, or that a turn of phrase was going to hit you right in the chest as real as the thump of a fist… My mother is a voracious reader and consumes a prodigious amount of material weekly… we were always peas in a pod 🫛 hanging out and reading our books together every day… I grew up enjoying reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy books… I remember I was 13 when the first book of GOT came out, and I read the entire book in a couple of days, ignoring the teacher in school and getting lost in that world. There is something absolutely fantastic about being transported into the imagination of another human being. To a place where you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste the experiences of well-developed characters and ride alongside them while they suffer and triumph through the hero’s journey. Those authors gave me courage to face bullies, to leave my home town, to travel the world solo (80 countries and counting), to open my own company, to learn to wrestle and how to fight and shoot, learn to fly a plane… along with so many other things… I gained so many lessons from those characters… thank God for the written word, and for the brilliant and tenacious authors who slave over their craft, carefully twisting and turning phrases until they resonate and penetrate the heart and soul 🙏🏼 I read all the big Sci-fi and Fantasy book years ago… and for years was trying to find new authors to read… I don’t like to support Amazon, being a minimalist who buys locally produced and made goods… but their Kindle Unlimited platform has attracted a huge amount of talented new authors, giving them a place to access the world… For me, it’s been one of the best programs I’ve ever paid for at $12 monthly… being able to carry around a Kindle with over 1000 books on it is a luxury that I am so grateful for… For those of you who love #sci-fi and #fantasy books, and are looking for new authors that might not be on the big lists of top all-time popular series in the 2 genres… below is a curated list of authors you can try out who produced books I enjoyed and who you can access through the Kindle Unlimited membership. It is my hope that this list helps some of you who love Sci-Fi and Fantasy to discover new worlds, ride alongside new hero’s and heroines,be inspired to be brave… to have courage… to face your fears… to do what is right, despite the consequences… and to live your life as the hero of your own story 🫡✊🏼 #kindle #kindleunlimited #authors #books #scifi #sci-fi #fantasy #bookworm #read #readinglist #author #series #story #adventure #heros #library #genre #nostr #plebchain #coffeechain #goodmorning #gm #plebs #bicoin #bookchain #recommendations #booklist #bookstr Kindle Unlimited / Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors with books/series worth reading: Kel Kade Marko Kloos Duncan M. Hamilton Peter Flannery Will Wight Jonathan Renshaw Hugh Howey Jeff Wheeler Aleron Kong Evan winter Lindsay Buroker Jamie McFarlane Scott lynch Guy Gavriel Kay Bryce O’Conner & Luke Chmilenko Shirtaloon Gary Spechko C.B. Titus Taran matharu Leigh Bardugo Mark Lawrence Ted Chiang Neal Stephenson Kameron Hurley Peng shepherd Brian McClellan Michael R. Miller Chris R. Underwood Bryce O’Conner JF Brink Dave willmarth Daniel Schinhofen SunriseCV David north Tom Elliot MA Rothman Dr. Ward Cornell Tj renolds Emmet Moss E.M. Foner Rob J. Hayes D.I. Freed Daniel Schinhofen Samar Rabadi D. Ward Cornell Guy Gavriel Kay Norte Flood Eric Dontigney
The Three Body Problem trilogy 🫡
Narrowed it down to either: -The Sovereign Individual -The Almanack of Naval Ravikant -The Fourth Turning is Here -Principals of Dealing with A Changing World Order -The Way of The Superior Man or -Snow Crash Tough call they were all good. I'm gonna cheat and say: For fiction: Snow Crash Nonfiction: The Sovereign Individual.
Fiat Food
Economics in One Lesson is old, but reads easy and refrains from pedantic academic style of writing.
Murray Rothbard, What has Government done to our money?
The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Probably my fav of all time
It’s not the easiest read, but it certainly stays with you. I convinced my 24 year old son to read it. He’s loving it. I feel like a good parent. 😃
The Bitcoin Standard.
The Swamp Fox by John Oller
The Conquest Of The World By The Jews - Major Osman Bey
A History Of Central Banking And The Enslavement Of Mankind https://archive.org/details/a-history-of-central-banking-and-the-enslavement-of-mankind-pdfdrive/mode/2up Read after viewing all 8 of https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ7GdlPK75_tXJYVzkCId2SYEjBLjnU9E https://m.primal.net/KRBo.png
The Poison King - Adrienne Mayor
#Bitcoin related it was „Bitcoin Billionaires“ about the Winklevoss Twins. Apart from that I really enjoyed „Fairy Tale“ by Stephen King. What about you?
Memoirs of a Geisha
It makes me stack harder https://m.primal.net/Kqwl.png
Man's Search for Meaning.
Classic by now, isn’t it? 👍🏻