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Old 07-25-2018, 09:46 AM
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I'm reading two books at the moment;

From Beirut to Jerusalem - Tom Friedman

Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World - Billy Bragg
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Old 07-25-2018, 02:28 PM
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The Man in the High Castle.

In the Garden of Beasts.
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Old 07-25-2018, 04:14 PM
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The Man in the High Castle.
Hopefully the book is more coherent than was the Amazon Prime series. Excellent, frightening premise, with many, many parallels to the current administration, but mediocre execution, for the most part.
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Old 07-25-2018, 08:28 PM
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A coherent Philip K. Dick novel would be oxymoronic.
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Old 07-27-2018, 11:43 AM
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It's been ok so far, but I've been diverted to In the Garden of Beasts by the parallel with current affairs.
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Old 11-19-2018, 03:14 PM
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I just finished reading Rising Out Of Hatred.
It was a good book and demonstrates how Trumps rhetoric parallels the white nationalists goals and mindset.
It was about Derrick Black, the son of Don Black and god son of David Duke. He grew up in that environment and when he became an adult and could think for himself, he denounced the rhetoric and the white nationalists.
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Old 11-19-2018, 03:30 PM
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It'll be Hitler's Empire by Mark Mazower.
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Detroit An American Autopsy

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A look at Detroit and it's environs with a Mickey Spillane edge.

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