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To list a few mine include Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling, Carl Berstein and Bob Woodward, John Locke, Rousseau, and Barack Obama.
 
I had no idea Obama was an author. Interesting.

I have many favourites: Robert Nisbet, Edmund Burke, Tolkien, Chesterbelloc, George R.R Martin, St.Thomas Aquinas, E.F Schumacher, Leopold Kohr, Ivan Illich, Russell Kirk, Frederich Hayek, Peter Kropotkin, Thoreau, G.D.H Cole, St.Thomas More, Tolstoy...the list could go on and on.
 
Wessexman said:
I had no idea Obama was an author. Interesting.
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oh yeah, big time. NYT bestsellers and everything. I like his titles:

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

some of my favorite authors: Jane Austen, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan Doyle, Zane Grey, Dashiell Hammett, O. Henry, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Owen Wister...there is someone obvious I'm leaving out...
 
emdash said:
oh yeah, big time. NYT bestsellers and everything. I like his titles:

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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They sound slightly nauseating like Tony Blair could have written them.
 
My favorite authors at the moment would be:

Stephen King
Jonathan Carroll
Christopher Moore
Whitley Strieber
Richard Laymon
 
Orson Scott Card, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Phillip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Stephen R. Donaldson.
 
Tucker Case said:
Orson Scott Card, Christopher Moore, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Phillip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Stephen R. Donaldson.
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Man I have heard of hardly any of those. What sort of fiction do you like? I personally only tend to read classics, historical stuff(basically medieval and early modern.) and fantasy.

Asimov isn't the guy who served with Makhno is he?

I know I've probably asked you before but I don't remember. Seeing as we have some similar political views on decentralisation I was just wondering if you've read any of the works of Leopold Kohr or E.F Schumacher or Robert Nisbet?

If not I really recommend you read Leopold Kohr's The Breakdown of nations . It has to be the seminal, decentralist work. Here is an excellent chapter from it which summaries his views on power and unaccountable power and how they are responsible for most social misery and come so often with bigness.

http://www.cesc.net/adobeweb/radcon/chapter2.pdf

Here's some other pages on him if you're interested.

Leopold Kohr Online
 
Wessexman said:
Man I have heard of hardly any of those. What sort of fiction do you like? I personally only tend to read classics, historical stuff(basically medieval and early modern.) and fantasy.

Asimov isn't the guy who served with Makhno is he?
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Asimov is one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors of all time. My list is pretty much just sci-fi, fantasy, and humor (Most of the humor falls into one fo those two categories).

I know I've probably asked you before but I don't remember. Seeing as we have some similar political views on decentralisation I was just wondering if you've read any of the works of Leopold Kohr or E.F Schumacher or Robert Nisbet?
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Interestingly enough, I've read none of them. I read voraciously, but almost exclusively fiction. Most of my views are pretty much self-derived. I have been meaning to send you a PM to get a list of books off of you, since you seem very well-read on these issues as well as sharing many of the same views as me.





I'll definitely check those out. I just bookmarked them, actually. Thanks.

All I can do in return us recommend some good sci-fi, fantasy or humor novels from any of the authors I named in the above post. :mrgreen:
 
Tucker Case said:
Asimov is one of the greatest Sci-Fi authors of all time. My list is pretty much just sci-fi, fantasy, and humor (Most of the humor falls into one fo those two categories).
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I've never been a great fan of Sci-fi mostly because I'm very much into decentralised and alternative techology and a lot of the Sci-fi world's seem distopias to me. I quite like fantast though. Have you ever read anything by George R.R Martin? I very much recommend it.


Well when it comes to decentralism and related ideas I do consider myself quite well versed. I can certainly point out texts and stuff available on the net which is worth reading depending upon which direction(anarchist, libertarian, Green etc.) you are oriented towards.
 
pro-bipartisan said:
To list a few mine include Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling, Carl Berstein and Bob Woodward, John Locke, Rousseau, and Barack Obama.
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John Le Carre, Larry Niven, Stephen Baxter, Charles Dickens, Robert J. Sawyer, H. P. Lovecraft...
 
Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Lewis Nordan, JRR Tolkien, Breece D'J Pancake, Anne Sexton, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Ian Frazier, Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Paul Auster, Rick Bass, Carlos Castaneda, Hermann Hesse, Jon Krakauer, Yukio Mishima, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Bill Bryson, Chögyam Trungpa, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Annie Dillard, Stephen Dunn, George Oppen ...
 
My favorite authors are:

Ellen G White
Amy MacKinnon
Diana Gabaldon
Jason Likes
Mark Klempner
Kathryn Maughan
C.S. Lewis
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
JK Rowling, Laurell K Hamilton, Jane Austen, Bronte, JR Ward, Kelley Armstrong, Keri Arthur ...

Edit: I just noticed i'm lacking males ... Lee Child, Tolkien
 
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Brian McLaren, Mark Danielewski, Dan Merchant, William Butler Yeates and R. A. Salvatore.
 
John Krakauer, Bill Bryson, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, E.O. Wilson, C.S. Lewis, Peter Hessler, Jung Chang, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso....

Guess it just depends on what I am interested in at the time and reading. I am surprised though that no one else listed Hemingway.
 
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David Gemmel, Christopher Paolini, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Dan Brown ROCK!
 
[no particular order, jus' off the top of my head...]

-George Orwell
-Stephen King
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
-God (the Bible)
-Mark Twain
-Thomas Paine
-Jack Kerouac
-J.D. Salinger
-Ray Bradbury
-John Perry Barlow
 
- God
- Ann Coulter
- Mark Levin
- Angela McGlowan.
 
Oh, goodness....fave author time, eh?

Is it Swift, for his penetrating satire in Gulliver's Travels?

Or is it Orwell, for his ..... Keep the Aspidistra Flying and A Clergyman's Daughter? (What did you think I was going to say?)

Most definitely Tolkien is there for his unsurpassable tales of Middle Earth, and if you've only seen the Lord of the Rings movies, you don't understand what I mean.

Robert Heinlein's on the list, for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress not to mention his earlier work.

Eric Frank Russel, for obvious reasons.

James P. Hogan.

George RR Martin, for Fevre Dream and Sandkings. He hasn't finished his Song of Ice and Fire epic, so I'll leave that off.
 
K-1 said:
This book:


It's a wonderful read...I recommend it to everyone.
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I never read "Stop Hotlinking. Host the Image on Your Server"

Who's it written by?

I don't want to judge a book by it's title, but I've gotta say, I don't think that sounds interesting at all.
 
Tucker Case said:
I never read "Stop Hotlinking. Host the Image on Your Server"

Who's it written by?

I don't want to judge a book by it's title, but I've gotta say, I don't think that sounds interesting at all.
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LOL. It was a photograph of the Bible.
 
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