Do we have a book club?
7 2015-03-23 by [deleted]
Some ideas:
The Grand Chessboard (I need to read this, myself - know your enemy)
Common Sense
The Communist Manifesto
A People's History of the U.S.
Manufacturing Consent
The Franklin Cover-up
The End of America
Other ideas? What could we read and discuss each month or week?
27 comments
3 metabolix 2015-03-23
This is a good idea!
1 [deleted] 2015-03-23
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2 metabolix 2015-03-23
I'm in India so hope its not a problem to get a hardcopy. But I'll try! Yea, wait for how many people respond and then we can go from there. :)
0 [deleted] 2015-03-23
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3 metabolix 2015-03-23
gee, that's really nice of you. Thanks!
3 Qwertyact 2015-03-23
Family of secrets -- best expose to date of the Bush crime syndicate
3 Sonoranpawn 2015-03-23
Behold a Pale Horse is like a conspiracy manifesto
2 Trash80RadioShack 2015-03-23
Let's pick a topic and we can either read the same book or read similar books and in turn discuss differences. I just finished The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield.
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
There is a book club here, but I don't participate. Search for it - i t is 1 per month I think
1 Trash80RadioShack 2015-03-23
Found it.Thank you
2 strokethekitty 2015-03-23
IIRC, /u/redditeditard was interested in forming a book club. I know it was discussed, but thats the last ive seen of it... Maybe she could help?
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
But >IIRC, /u/redditeditard was interested in forming a book club. I know it was discussed, but thats the last ive seen of it... Maybe she could help?
..but /u/redditeditard was supposed to quite reddit for a month! Maybe May 1st?
1 strokethekitty 2015-03-23
Oh yea? I wasnt aware of that. Oh well, good luck to her!
2 redditeditard 2015-03-23
I'm not gone, just using the internet less as a distraction and more as a tool. I emailed family members this morning, instead of reading everything in the new queue here! SO, THAT'S PROGRESS!!!! But we're not gonna talk about the 2+ hours I spent fb stalking exes or old classmates last week, umkay?.....
I am down for a book club, despite whatever accountability to my word that /u/jamescolepardon insists on!!! ;)
1 strokethekitty 2015-03-23
As long as each step we take is toward progress, our lives (and the world we live in) become that much better.
And for whats its worth, if using the internet as a tool rather than a distraction, i think you can keep to your word and participate in the book club at the same time ;-)
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
How to think like Jim (or what I've read in the last year), in no particular order:
Propaganda (Bernays)
Crystallizing Public Opinion (Bernays)
The Global Minotaur (Varoufakis)
The Grand Chessboard (Brzezinski)
Hologram of Liberty (Royce)
1984 (Orwell)
Brave New World (Huxley)
Four Arguments For The Elimination Of Television (Mander)
Shock Doctrine (Klein)
Confessions Of An Economic Hitman (Perkins)
No Treason (Spooner)
The Compete Tales of Winnie The Pooh (Milne)
Secret History Of The American Revolution (Van Dorn) [signed first edition motherfuckers]
The Complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (various)
War Is A Racket (Butler)
2 redditeditard 2015-03-23
Nerd! Badass nerd!!! :p
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
You have no idea, lady. No idea.
2 redditeditard 2015-03-23
I won a bet yesterday for knowing Google is based on the word googol....
1 [deleted] 2015-03-23
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0 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
You need to.
$10.29 with Amazon Prime, should take you a day, tops.
No reason you can't cross that off your list in one week, to be honest.
0 [deleted] 2015-03-23
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0 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
Then buy it right now. And PM me in a week.
Because things be happening man, and you're either on the sidelines or your in on it.
Get in on it. Because I need you.
0 [deleted] 2015-03-23
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0 JamesColesPardon 2015-03-23
So... You ask..
And despite the fact that you could use hr search feature and realize that yes, we have a book club, and discussion monthly, evades you, is part of the problem.
Pressure? I linked you to a book that is immensely important, where you can click a button and have it shipped to your house for >$11, and wanted you to PM me so you could discuss the *mindfuckingly crazy ideas in this ~80 year old book because most people who post threads like this want some guidance and hand-holding. Looks like you're just trolling for what us conspirtards read and what our mindset is, eh? Or am I being paranoid?
No apologies needed, because I don't care either way. I was offering you an olive branch, because it's rare for people to want to read this shit. They either legitimately want to know how the world works, or are trying to assess the level of consciousness and awe how far down the rabbit hole people have gotten.
So I don't give a shit about your PM. I could just 'cancel' this reply, but I won't, because I know for every sub we have we have 5 more lurkers. And they need to see this.
Because we get this request often, sometimes genuine, sometimes not.
And I'm on the fence here.
2 RMFN 2015-03-23
Thoreau, Walden Pond.
1 end_of_rainbow 2015-03-23
Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0896081036/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-7029380-7373042
1 LittleHelperRobot 2015-03-23
Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0896081036/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-7029380-7373042
That's why I'm here, I don't judge you. PM /u/xl0 if I'm causing any trouble. WUT?
1 redditeditard 2015-03-23
I love me some Howard Zinn, I have both the US and World books. I have some Chomsky I've never read.
Can I suggest with the first book, we do a classic, like Orwell or Huxley? Many e-book services offer them as a Freebie, or people have old beatup high school copies laying around. I'm throwing Fahrenheit 451 into the suggestion pool too!
Are hashtags searchable here? If I search #conspiracyreads1984 are all the related comments going to show?
1 redditeditard 2015-03-23
Did we reach a consensus?