Recommended Reading from The Blue State and Our Visitors.

We here at The Blue State have beentossing around the idea of as "Book club", "RecommendedReads"...etc. I don't think the books all have to have a politicalplot of theme. An example I could use would be a few books I think are worthy; 'Tuesday'swith Morrie', 'TheFive people You 'Meet in Heaven', "TheBook of Virtues", 'AngelesAshes', and a MonkSwimming' to name a few of the non-politics book I have read.. Naturallythere will be many political books. I mentioned books with great plots and"moral of the story" type.

If anyone has a book(s) you would like to share and feel are worthy,please leave in the comments section of the post. This is just a "feeler",and not  definitive as of yet.

Your thought's would be greatly  appreciative.

Thank you from The Blue State.

Todd, George, Erick, Alex and me

Comments

[brien]

Two books of the same author I read recently that I found to be both very interesting and inciteful about the world in which we live today;
1)How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman. An analysis of the effects of the Scottish people on education, the Enlightenment, commerce and economic, and most interestingly the American psyche leading up to and since the American Revolution.
2)To Rule The Waves, Arthur Herman. The maritime history of Britain. For 400 years, the destiny of civilization was dominated by the Britain's role in the sea; militarily, economically, culturally etc. Their dominance ended only two generations ago. Guess who the inherited this legacy? A must read for anyone hoping to understand the United States' role in the world.

[Erick]

"Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear" by Dr. Frank Luntz (even though he's a Republican the book is one of the most incredible and influential books I've read)

"The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore

[Chief Editor: Todd]

Erick, I completely agree! Frank Luntz has been so influential to me in how I think about political strategy.

[The Mexican]

"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
"Auroras of Autumn" by Wallace Stevens (Poetry)
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor (Short Story)
"The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Pale Fire" by Vladimir Nabokov
"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce
"Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon

Master Class:
Khalil Gibran - "The Prophet"
William Faulkner - "Barn Burning" (Short Story)
Wallace Stevens - "Sunday Morning" (Poetry)
Charles Dickens - "Great Expectations" (1861)
James Joyce - "Ulysses" (1922)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1970)
Toni Morrison - "Song of Solomon" (1977)

Omni Class:
Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

[The Mexican]

I forgot to mention Khalil Gibran - "The Prophet" is poetry, so Khalil Gibran - "The Prophet" (Poetry).