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Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by Bardock42
You may suggest whatever you want. It is a relatively free forum.
Hot diggity, I always wanted one of those.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
Hot diggity, I always wanted one of those.
They are quite good.

Also, may I recommend a book to you, my political minded friend?

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Please do. Always willing to learn.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
Please do. Always willing to learn.
It is by Brian Doherty, editor of Reason magazine (excellent magazine, by the way), it's called Radicals for Capitalism, it illuminates the history and ideas of the great thinkers and supporters of capitalism and libertarianism. I enjoy it thoroughly. Now, I realize you don't have the same political opinion as I do, but still I think you could derive quite some knowledge from it.

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

There's a copy of it in a library nearby - I'll be sure to check it out once I'm done with the 13 other books I'm trying to get through at the moment (almost an exaggeration).

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
There's a copy of it in a library nearby - I'll be sure to check it out once I'm done with the 13 other books I'm trying to get through at the moment (almost an exaggeration).
Haha, what books do you have on that list.

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Let's see:

The GOP Haters Handbook by Jack Huberman (in the middle of it now)
The Road to 270 - It's about electoral strategies, but I can't find it at the moment so I don't have the full title.
Living History by Hillary Clinton
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I want to take a look at the writings of Machiavelli
Dante's Divine Comedy - bought it a while ago, haven't gotten around to it yet
Plus a bunch of other political books that I bought it a garage sake.
And some novels that I had to read in high school and want to revisit.

So I guess 13 is lowballing it.

But I'll probably check out this Doherty book before I get to the stuff I already own.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
Let's see:

The GOP Haters Handbook by Jack Huberman (in the middle of it now)
The Road to 270 - It's about electoral strategies, but I can't find it at the moment so I don't have the full title.
Living History by Hillary Clinton
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
I want to take a look at the writings of Machiavelli
Dante's Divine Comedy - bought it a while ago, haven't gotten around to it yet
Plus a bunch of other political books that I bought it a garage sake.
And some novels that I had to read in high school and want to revisit.

So I guess 13 is lowballing it.

But I'll probably check out this Doherty book before I get to the stuff I already own.

How much would you say you read?

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by Bardock42
How much would you say you read?
Much more than the average American. I shoot for about 10-15 books a year. Granted, most of them are non-fiction these days, but I'm trying to get back into novels.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
Much more than the average American. I shoot for about 15-20 books a year.
Sounds good. How much does the average American read?

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

No clue. Not much though, I'd wager.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
No clue. Not much though, I'd wager.
You think there are statistics on it?

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

I just found an article that just broke my heart...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045.html

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
I just found an article that just broke my heart...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/21/AR2007082101045.html

Yeah, it is quite sad. Especially that even if people read they read Religious works or popular fiction (aka shit).

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

truly.

I'm actually going to go continue reading the GOP Hater's Handbook right now and maybe get a little shut-eye. Nice talking to you. salute2

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
truly.

I'm actually going to go continue reading the GOP Hater's Handbook right now and maybe get a little shut-eye. Nice talking to you. salute2

Farewell.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Strangey, how much cooler than you does it make Ou Bee Low hoo that he had basically the same thread almost two years before you?

Strangelove Misunderstood Genius

Originally posted by Bardock42
Strangey, how much cooler than you does it make Ou Bee Low hoo that he had basically the same thread almost two years before you?
Never having heard of Ou Bee Low Hoo, I can't say.

But because of that fact I'd wager not much.

Plus there's the fact that that thread only got 135 posts and this one is considerably more successful.

Bardock42 Junior Member

Originally posted by Strangelove
Never having heard of Ou Bee Low Hoo, I can't say.

But because of that fact I'd wager not much.

Plus there's the fact that that thread only got 135 posts and this one is considerably more successful.

Agreed.

The other facts you don't know about weigh in big time though.

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You say you want a revolution?