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The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
George Orwell
Harvest Books, 1961
Homage to Orwell
+ A Moveable Feast
+ Amazing Introduction to Orwell. But buy the originals.
+ Correction to previous post
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford World's Classics)
Thorstein Veblen
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen's analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding motive in the modern economy, and with an impartial gaze ...
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
Verso, 2007
All SAPed Out
+ Provocative and Frightening
What a tremendous work. I've got two chapters left to go, and thus far it's easily the most informative and scholarly book I've yet to read in 2008.
Planet of Slums is all about how the Third World's major cities are growing at what seems like an almost exponential rate. They're turning ...
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Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Philip K. Dick
Vintage, 1993
Puzzling
+ should be highly regarded
+ Phil at his drugged betters
+ Best if read twice
+ Intriguing paranoid mess
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The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Who Rules in America?
+ Superb Book
+ Corroborates Assertions that the Elected Gov't is not the Real Gov't
+ Where does the power lie? American society deconstructed.
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The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
Hunter S. Thompson
Simon & Schuster, 2003
The Essential Hunter Thompson
+ Good Stuff
+ Incredible Collection
+ Wow - This guy went about 500 mph at ALL TIMES.
+ Hilarious and very perceptive
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ...
Signet Classics, 2003
Why we are who we are.
+ The Federalist Papers
+ For all fredom lovers
+ Another vote for must read
+ Ancient Legalese
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No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
AK Press, 2005
No Tolstoy - But Still GREAT!
+ A fascinating colelction of libertarian ideas
+ A terrific history of anarchism with many anarchists' writings
+ A rich collection of classical anarchist texts!
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9-11
Noam Chomsky
Open Media/Seven Stories Press, 2001
Important Context for 9/11 that's Hard to Find Elsewhere
This is a collection of talks and interviews so it lacks the political models and theories that Chomsky applies to U.S. politics and media that are found in his larger and more in depth works.
This book is probably best suited for the moderate dissident or progressive who has read only ...
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A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing
H.L. Mencken
Vintage, 1982
The Baltimorean Belle-Lettrist...
+ SUPERB....BUT THEN WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT? IT'S MENCKEN'S OWN SELECTION.
+ Mencken is talented.
+ new h.l. mencken fan- life's full circle is timeless.
+ A book for pricking poo-flinging monkeys
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1984, Level 4, Penguin Readers (Penguin Readers: Level 4)
George Orwell
Pearson ESL, 2003
Got ripped off
Was expecting full version and had to send it back. Was charged more for shipping then what I paid for book
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Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Classics, 2006
The Mother of All War Novels
+ It Depends
+ Ambivalent on This One
+ Huh?
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Pantheon, 2002
Your life could depend on reading this book.
+ Eye Opener
+ Eye Opening
+ One of Chomsky's best (and still applicable today)
+ Chomsky's pinnacle
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The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin
Free Press, 1993
Great book, still relevent even today
+ Oil and the World
+ Definitive work on oil exploration and exploitation
+ Complete!
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
This should be required reading in our schools
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on top. The first 10 pages are ...
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