DRTV Book Club?

[Solus]

My moral/ethical stand against stealing copyrighted material gets weak when it is no longer being published and all sales are 3rd party.

You are taking nothing from the one holding the copyright.

I can only assume those paying in excess of $100 for this book are collectors and they have no interest in a PDF/loose paper copy.


But the book/music copyright means that there can only be one reader at a time for the book.  So making paper copies to give to friends at no cost while the book is in print is a violation.  It is a little different with music.  You can make copies for your own personal use...for instance, you can  have it on a cd, cassette tape if you still need one, on  your iPod and a MP3 copy to listen to on your computer....the rule again is single user access..

[Magoo541]

I've been a bad student and have been reading Unintended-Consequences instead of my International Dynamics text book.   

I read a passage that jumped out at me:
Henry," Irwin said finally, "I hope that you never lose interest in your shooting skills. If we had had a fewless doctors and musicians in 1940, and a few more boys like you, perhaps what you see in these photosmight not have been possible." Irwin Mann took a deep breath. "But Hitler and his brownshirts did notallow Jews like me to have guns."
"It's kind of the same way around here, but with Negroes," Henry replied, remembering what Al Goodmanhad told him. page 150

I arrived in Germany in December of '89 two weeks after the wall fell.  During my tour there we visited Dachau, one of the first concentration camps in Germany, saw the very groud thousands of Jews, political prisoners and other enemies of the state lost their lives.  At 19 I understood the evil men are capable of, but it took me well into my 30's before I realized that the Second Amendment was our insurance against the government abuses like those I saw in the museum at Dachau.  I will be sharing this with my family over the next few months (four women versus one man makes it an uphill battle when it comes to things they would rather not think about) and will make it a point to "remind" them as my kids enter adult life.

Great book to kick off the DRTV book club.  What's next?   

[tombogan03884]

One that's still in print ?

"A Rifleman Went to War" by Herbert W. McBride


http://www.amazon.com/Rifleman-Went-War-H-McBride/dp/0935856013/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323447524&sr=1-1

A look at machine gunning, sniping, and the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WWI by an American rifleman who served with them.

[Magoo541]

OK, my suggestion for the next book is Altas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  I'm sure many of you have read it but I have not. 

We watched the movie last night, best movie of the entire 2 week vacation, out of at least a dozen we watched (4 alone yesterday).

If you haven't seen you should, it's only a dollar out of the Red box 

[fightingquaker13]

OK, my suggestion for the next book is Altas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  I'm sure many of you have read it but I have not. 

We watched the movie last night, best movie of the entire 2 week vacation, out of at least a dozen we watched (4 alone yesterday).

If you haven't seen you should, it's only a dollar out of the Red box 

It is great book, and one that I firmly believe every American should read once. However, let me repeat that, its one every American should read ONCE. I will not read it a second time. I mean hell, y'all give me crap about long posts and John Galt has a thirty four page speech. Even Fidel Castro would be impressed by that. It is worth a read, but for the Cliff Notes version read "Anthem". Its about 150 pages and hits all the high notes.
FQ13

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[Magoo541]

I did a search on Altas Shrugged before I posted this and saw your comments on Ayn's background contributing to the book's make-up and how she was attacked as opposed to countering the points she made in the book.

What was her "unconventional" sex life anyway?

[fightingquaker13]

I did a search on Altas Shrugged before I posted this and saw your comments on Ayn's background contributing to the book's make-up and how she was attacked as opposed to countering the points she made in the book.

What was her "unconventional" sex life anyway?

Its in the book. Ayn was a bit twisted. She was a strong and  proud woman, but still wanted the big strong man. Its why Dagny (her alter ego) was the sidekick. She wrote a piece (for playboy I think) saying how a woman shouldn't be president since a man should be the leader and a woman should choose the right man to follow, even though I'd have voted for her in a heart beat. Despite all her rationalism, she never applied it to gender roles. Its kind of sad really, but everyone has their blind spots. If she'd thrown off her own blinders it would have been Jane Galt as the hero. As for her sex life? She carried on a life long affair with her friend, and her husband was fully aware of it. The book pretty much tells the tale, its a woman in love with two men, and she expects them both to be rational enough to deal with it. In her case they were. More power to her.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

Be fun to put her in a room with the guy who wrote "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" 
 FQ expressed why I hate Russian authors, I may read "Anthem", It's very doubtful I will read "Atlas Shrugged".

[Solus]

Be fun to put her in a room with the guy who wrote "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" 
 FQ expressed why I hate Russian authors, I may read "Anthem", It's very doubtful I will read "Atlas Shrugged".

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was my first thought after reading FQ's critique here.....

I've read Atlas Shrugged a few years ago.  And another Rand book, the title I cannot recall, when I was in the army...back in the mid/late 60s.  Read it because I was told I reminded folks of a Rand character....didn't like the character... but I might have fit the bill...he was naive and and idealistic...unbelievably so, which I was not 

[tombogan03884]

"The Fountainhead" ?