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 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 
 It absolutely is great. I’ve recommend it to a couple of friends who don’t care about Rand’s philosophy or politics. “We The Living” is just a great story. 
 A re-read of Ender’s Game 
 The Dragon’s Prophecy. By Jonathan Cahn. (Not perfect in his analysis, but a very worthy read.)
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 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” 
 yes Teddy was kind of fearless and so one of his kids got killed in a stupid war 

he was kind of like a 6-year-old with a toy gun running around 
 Not sure how long FDR would have made it on that adventure….  Prolly at least 10-15 minutes. 
 Candice Millard’s re-telling of the account is awesome as well! 
 The Book of Mormon. 
 Braiding sweetgrass eve 
 three body problem, but the jnvisible gorilla is a good second 
 Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, the Master of Terror 
 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 
 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.  
 
The Sea, The Sea
Novel by Iris Murdoch 
 Bible bruh 
 The Secret Life of Lobsters-Trevor Corson 
 Check out C.S Lewis "The Space Trilogy" 
 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?

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 Let me take a look 
 The Moon is A Harsh Mistress & The Prometheus Series is already on your list… I can’t think of something else off the top of my head that would belong in that specific category… but love the list and I’ll read the ones I haven’t yet! 
 Overstory 
 Great book 
 hunger games. This year i read 30 books yet and reading dune right now. hunger games was rwally good and some of the stories of witcher. omg witcher was so good 
 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. 
 Dune 
 i've read it twice in my life so far, second time around it was a lot more about the cultural manipulation than the love story 
 The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization 
 Atlas shrugged by Any Rand 
 Bhagvad Gita .. 
 Favorites this year would be: 

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K Dick
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts 
 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) 
 Abundance Through Scarcity - Ioani Applberg

The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin 

And of course my personal favourite book which I re-read every year; Meditations - Marcus Aurelius  
 Broken money by Lyn Alden 
 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. 
 The Liveship Trilogy by Robin Hobb 
 Yass! 
 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.”

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 Great Book 
 For so long it was on my 'to read list ' and I finally bought a copy whilst in an airport waiting for my flight. I read it in a day or two. Amazing book 💕 
 💯 A wonderful read.  I highly recommend. 
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 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. 
 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! 💯 
 Weapons of Mass Instruction is great 🤌 
 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 🫡✊🏼

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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.   
 Snow crash is sooooo good 
 I've read several great ones, but you asked for one so I'll go with the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.

I found it to be very inspiring and really, really funny. 
 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. 😃 
 I’m really enjoying the three body problem series. Both thought provoking and entertaining. 
 The Bitcoin Standard. 
 The Swamp Fox by John Oller 
 broken money by @LynAlden. fiat food was also a good read 
 The Conquest Of The World By The Jews - Major Osman Bey 
 The RA Material 
 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 
 Good Energy by Casey Means 
 Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox by Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND 
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Many good analogies, double meanings and puns. 
 It makes me stack harder 
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 Man's Search for Meaning.  
 Really enjoyed “Trouble with Lichen” 
 Classic by now, isn’t it? 👍🏻