What to Read Now. And Why

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  Posted By: jmatute @ 10/27/2009 12:27:42 PM

  I have taken the list to heart to seriously follow a plan to read more diverse books than I have had in the past. I am amused and somewhat taken aback by some folks who have commented here that the list is "too liberal", or that his book or that book (particularly religious themes) have been left off. I think it is short-sighted that readers think that these 50 books is all you have to know to understand life. That is a very shallow view. To me, this list is like a solid beginning when one goes to college to obtain a good solid liberal arts education. You learn to acquire the critical skills to be able to continue your life by continuing to read and self-educate. I have now taken the list and am finished with or reading five of them, and intend to continue. I hope to be able to read about subject matter that will allow me to be curious enough to read other related books of that subject or era and do so with a an educated platform. Reading is knowledge. Reading 50 books is but a drop in the bucket. As you get to know your library, 50 books here, and 50 books there, and 50 more books, and then 50 more,,,,,pretty soon you just might be able to function as a literate human being. When you get to that stage, you can understand why Fox News is nothing more than a comic page in the Penny Saver. Turn off the tube now and then and read a good book. Suggestions are available if you cannot think of a book to read.

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  Posted By: jps-mm @ 10/12/2009 12:52:19 PM

  Nobel Prize for Herta Müller - Another broad hint for Germany
  
  The Merkle has seriously abused the trust that the voters put in her four years ago in 2005. The most severe violation of human rights continues.
  It???s even worse: The human rights situation has drastically deteriorated since she came into power.
  
  A political system is injust whenever the government tolerantes or even approves the violation of human rights, the prosecutor???s office and courts systematically prolong and hamper penal and disciplinary Sanktion against the perpetrators of human right violations and parliament bodies (and public media) keeps silent about most severe human right violations and its perpetrators. In Germany, the human right situation ressembles the situation iof an injust political system.
  
  The message of the Nobel Prize awarded to Herta Müller is the following: Human rights are violated in Germany.
  
  

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  Posted By: Pietr @ 09/06/2009 12:42:17 PM

  I am with you, Cynthia Rose, 100%.