Name at least one obscure book

[mvd]

I'll start with Freemasons, by H. P. Jeffers. Very low sales rank on amazon.

[Radio_Lady]

1. My stepson sent my husband a copy of Edward Bellamy's book "Looking Backward..."

You can see whether that is on Amazon.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bellamy

Stepson wants to start a utopian commune in the South somewhere... he'll be 49 years old on September 11th. I think this qualifies as a mid-life crisis.

[mvd]

2. Like new music, I'm always up for new books

I'll check this out - thanks.

Will check the thread tomorrow even if I don't post.

[ellisonz]

4. LOL.

Looking Backward was responsible for a number of such crisises when it came out. Honestly, I blame Edward Bellamy for many of the excesses of liberalism/"socialism" in America i.e. quick fixes.

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/rise_of_american_fascism.htm

Give that man a copy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28More%29

[Omphaloskepsis]

9. Actually a pretty good book.. A little boring toward the end.

Howard Zinn mentions it in A Peoples History of The United States.. I read Looking Backward after reading A Peoples History due to the reference. It was a short read. I knocked it out in a couple of days at work.

[jpgray]

3. Not at all obscure, but I love it--the Al-Muqadimmah to Ibn Khaldun's Universal History

Incredible insights from probably the greatest historian of what we call the Middle Ages.

[Az]

5. The Queen Jane Translation of the Bible

Not for the sensitive reader.

[ellisonz]

6. Mr. Dooley in Peace and War.

http://www.amazon.com/Dooley-Peace-Finley-Peter-Dunne/dp/1417901934/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-5788078-0055033?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182492517&sr=1-2

"Poor dissolute uncovered wretches, ye miserable, childish minded apes, we propose f'r to
larn ye th' uses of liberty. We can't give ye anny votes...but we'll threat ye th' way a
father shud threat his childhern if we have to break ivry bone in ye'er bodies."

-Mr. Dooley, Peter Finley Dunne, 1898.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finley_Peter_Dunne

[Adsos Letter]

7. "Family Advice" ca. 1880

I just received this from the estate of a freind. Covers everything from "How to support the man of the house" to "The dangers of self-abuse".

They viewed things quite differently ca. 1880... :rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

8. "The Arrogance of Power" by Senator J. William Fulbright

written in 1966 about the Viet Nam War. Update it by changing "Viet Nam" to "Iraq" (and/or "Iran"), "President Johnson" to "George bu$h", "McNamara" to "Rumsfeld", etc., then make it required reading for every member of the House and Senate. And make a special comic book version for the squatter in the White House.

[taterguy]

10. The Cheese Chronicles by Tommy Womack

The best book ever written about rock and roll, except maybe for some of the Lester Bangs anthologies

[WinkyDink]

11. "The House on Garibaldi Street"~~~Thrilling true story of the capture of Adolf Eichmann.