****^***What Are Some Good Books To Read?***^***

[Chitownheadbusa]

I want to know about books i can learn from.
something thats real deep and will hopefully keep my attention.

last time i made this post, about a year ago, peole gave me books like "Makes me wanna holla", which i have checked out all ready.
Malcolm x Autobiography,
iceberg slim books, etc.

some body told me sista souljah book no disrespect was good, is it?
im also lookin for books by James baldwin, only the best though!!!
W.E.B Dubois, only the best!!
somebody suggested Cornell west, ive seen him on t.v before but i dont know about his books.
anyways post away, and soon!!!!

 

[Hung Lo]

That all depends on what you consider to be deep. What are you looking to learn from the books you read? The authors you named were all black, so in my opinion that puts a limit on what you're able to learn, and how deep you eventually get.

Are you looking to have your blackness reinforced by reading these works, or are you truly looking to expand your mind? Are you soul-searching or are you looking to round out your knowledge base.

It's not hard to find books by those authors, you can go to any black bookstore.

But if you really want to get deep, then go to the Health Research website. I was buying books from them before the web.
[FRAME]http://www.healthresearchbooks.com/pages/books_categories.php[/FRAME]

 

[GhostofMarcus]

I have read Man's Higher Consciousness by: Hotema, Hilton. Very good book with lots of info for an open mind. Talks about people living for 150 years, how man lived without eating food and etc.

 

[Black_Immortal]

I recommend "The Pact" three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream, by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt. It is the story about three young brothers from New Jersey and how they supported each other in their dream to go to college, and professional school to become doctors (two MD's and one DDS). They speak candidly about their struggles, their own shortcomings, and about the people and institutions who helped them. I found this book to be truly inspiring.

 

[Hung Lo]

I have read Man's Higher Consciousness by: Hotema, Hilton. Very good book with lots of info for an open mind. Talks about people living for 150 years, how man lived without eating food and etc.

Yeah, I have that book in my collection. As well as some other books by him. The Hidden Creator is the bomb. Genesis of Christianity is pretty good too. Here are a few quotes from that book.

" Out of astrology the gods of all religions have arisen, one after another."

"The Christian Story, as the Gospels narrate it, cannot stand the test of analysis. You approach it critically and it falls."

" Religion, to a large degree, is fanatacism --which, in turn, is an obsession-compulsive, rigid form of holding to a viewpoint that invariably masks and provides a bulwark for the underlying insecurity of the obsessed individual. "

Damn!!!

 

[respiration]

I want to know about books i can learn from.
something thats real deep and will hopefully keep my attention.

last time i made this post, about a year ago, peole gave me books like "Makes me wanna holla", which i have checked out all ready.
Malcolm x Autobiography,
iceberg slim books, etc.

some body told me sista souljah book no disrespect was good, is it?
im also lookin for books by James baldwin, only the best though!!!
W.E.B Dubois, only the best!!
somebody suggested Cornell west, ive seen him on t.v before but i dont know about his books.
anyways post away, and soon!!!!

At the time it came out, I thought the Sistah Souljah's book, "No Disrespect" was an excellent analysis on men, women, relationships and human nature. Through telling her own story, she drops some good-ass useful mother wit.

Here's a starter set of some more great books:

Fiction:
Cane - Jean Toomer
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Best of Simple - Langston Hughes
Moses, Man of the Mountain - Zora Neale Hurston
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Uncle Tom's Children - Richard Wright
Johannesburg and Other Poems - Sterling Plumpp
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Gather Together in My Name - Maya Angelou
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
1984 - George Orwell


Nonfiction:
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys - Jawanza Kunjufu
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Nigger - Dick Gregory
Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War - Ernesto Che Guevara
Bolivian Diary - Ernesto Che Guevara
Down These Mean Streets - Piri Thomas
The Miseducation of the Negro - Carter G. Woodson
African World Revolution: Africa at the Crossroads - John Henrik Clark
Sex and Race - J.A. Rogers
Malcolm X: The FBI Files - Clayborne Carson
Blues All Around Me - B.B. King
The Psychopathic Racial Personality - Dr Bobby Wright, PhD
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
They Came Before Columbus - Lerone Bennet
The Isis Papers - Dr. Francis Cress Welsing
Blacks and White TV : African Americans in Television Since 1948 - Fred J. McDonald
The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America - Wyn Craig Wade

 

[bambota]

a book titled, Medisin by Whitaker and I had to read the De Vinci Code. I will start the destruction of Black Civilization soon

 

[James Cooper]

a book called "The Book Your Church Doesnt Want You To Read". A book on religious compilations from all over the world. It shows were the virgin birth originated..

The 13 crucified saviors...Also where the christian symbolism comes from, such as the Fish Origin, and how Christ went from the Sun of Man to the SON of man......Very intersting read....

 

[mk23666]

Anything by Zecharia Sitchin or Lloyd Pye.

They write alternative theories on anchient history and prehistory.

 

[LSN]

Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

...at home or abroad...?

 

[LSN]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

Damn this board is dead...

 

[Costanza]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

Everyone knows how poll-driven modern politics are; I found Joe Klein's Politics Lost to be a pretty good read on how things got that way, in terms of consultants in Washington.

 

[Makkonnen]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

1984
animal farm

 

[Greed]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University

An excerpt

 

[QueEx]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

The True Believer
By Eric Hoffer
1951

I read it in undergrad. I was about to do a brief review of the book when I came across the following which pretty much sums up my view of the book:

The premise of the book is as follows: Mass movements spread by promising a glorious future, and they need people to be willing to sacrifice all for that future, including themselves and others. To do that, they need to devalue both the past and the present. Therefore, mass movements appeal to the frustrated; people who are dissatisfied with their current state, but are capable of a strong belief in the future and to people who want to escape a flawed self by creating an imaginary self and joining a compact collective whole to escape themselves. Some categories of such people are the poor, the misfits, the creative thwarted in their endeavors, the inordinately selfish, the ambitious facing unlimited opportunities, minorities, the bored, and sinners. The book also explores the behavior of mass movements once they become established (or leave the "active phase").

With their collapse of a communal framework people can no longer defeat the feelings of insecurity and uncertainty by belonging to a compact whole. If the isolated individual lacks vast opportunities for personal advancement, development of talents, and action (such as those found on a frontier), he will seek substitutes. These substitutes would be pride instead of self-confidence, memberships in a collective whole like a mass movement, absolute certainty instead of understanding.

The True Believer evaluates (and sometimes disparages) Communists, Fascists, Nationalists, and early Christians. Part of Hoffer's thesis is that movements are interchangeable and that fanatics will often flip from one movement to another.

Hoffer does not take an exclusively negative view of "true believers" and the mass movements they begin. Examples he gives of positive true believers are Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi. There are also positive reflections in the final sentence of the book.


QueEx

 

[LSN]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

1984
animal farm

You know...I have never read this book..always heard of it...this is a definitely a must read...thanks to the others for the drops as well...

 

[LSN]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

LOL...sounds good...I would have liked for there to be an updated version of this...I guess once I read it though I can connect it the "present-day" dots...

The True Believer
By Eric Hoffer
1951

I read it in undergrad. I was about to do a brief review of the book when I came across the following which pretty much sums up my view of the book:

The premise of the book is as follows: Mass movements spread by promising a glorious future, and they need people to be willing to sacrifice all for that future, including themselves and others. To do that, they need to devalue both the past and the present. Therefore, mass movements appeal to the frustrated; people who are dissatisfied with their current state, but are capable of a strong belief in the future and to people who want to escape a flawed self by creating an imaginary self and joining a compact collective whole to escape themselves. Some categories of such people are the poor, the misfits, the creative thwarted in their endeavors, the inordinately selfish, the ambitious facing unlimited opportunities, minorities, the bored, and sinners. The book also explores the behavior of mass movements once they become established (or leave the "active phase").

With their collapse of a communal framework people can no longer defeat the feelings of insecurity and uncertainty by belonging to a compact whole. If the isolated individual lacks vast opportunities for personal advancement, development of talents, and action (such as those found on a frontier), he will seek substitutes. These substitutes would be pride instead of self-confidence, memberships in a collective whole like a mass movement, absolute certainty instead of understanding.

The True Believer evaluates (and sometimes disparages) Communists, Fascists, Nationalists, and early Christians. Part of Hoffer's thesis is that movements are interchangeable and that fanatics will often flip from one movement to another.

Hoffer does not take an exclusively negative view of "true believers" and the mass movements they begin. Examples he gives of positive true believers are Abraham Lincoln and Gandhi. There are also positive reflections in the final sentence of the book.


QueEx

 

[African Herbsman]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Greg Palast

 

[QueEx]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

LOL...sounds good...I would have liked for there to be an updated version of this...I guess once I read it though I can connect it the "present-day" dots...

LOL . . . do not despair, there have been 23 editions of The True Believer published between 1951 and 2002 and at least 3 different covers:

LOL

 

[LSN]

Re: Can anyone recommend any good books on today's political climate...

LOL . . . do not despair, there have been 23 editions of The True Believer published between 1951 and 2002 and at least 3 different covers:

LOL

lol...thanks!

Has anyone read Barack Obama's book...? Last political book I read was Confessions of an Economic Hitman...not a great literary piece of work but it definitely made up for that by providing some truths and confirming beliefs I had...

 

[keysersoze]

Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

BGOL Intellectuals/Readers - Recommend Some Serious Knowledge/Books from your Summer Reading List.

I personally have been reading Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present' after hearing much about the book from friends.

I also picked up 'The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World' by Vijay Prashad which I recommend to all you history buffs.

Maybe we can even get some audiobook versions posted here for those with busy schedules.
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[keysersoze]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Thanks to Sharkbait for PDF of this must read book:

nice


Any of y'all interested in a pdf version of "Confessions of an Econmic Hitman"

BLAM!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VEAB0UKW

 

[Young Sir]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

 

[stick.man]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Thanks to Sharkbait for PDF of this must read book:

Props for this, I saw the author on "Democracy Now" awhile back.

 

[Dan Freeman]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

 

[KingTaharqa]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Claud Anderson goes in depth about the relationship of black slaves/sharecroppers/workers/entertainers/athletes and the wealthy whites who employ and control them. He clearly explains how black people's lack of ownership over these fields has hurt them in America and how our path as slave descendents varies from that of other minority groups path as immigrants. He also gives an outline of how Black America can improve its condition in the 21st century. Very good book.

 

[JCAL1705]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

 

[Ruff Ryder]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

It gives a look at how the american media portrays the black male in the USA with negative stereotypes through history, its a good read and I recommend it.

 

[QueEx]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

<font size="3">Suggestion:

If you're suggesting a book, more likely than not, you have read that book and you're recommending the book because of your experience with it. So, along with your recommendation that the book be read, how about a short "Book Review" that gives a brief (very brief) synopsis of your thoughts on what the book is about, how well does it accomplishes its purpose; and why you recommend that others read the book.

QueEx

 

[PLASMA CANNON]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Dope Thread...

 

[Ruff Ryder]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

I have not read this book yet, but I did watch the interview on Black Enterprise TV and Bill is telling it like it is.

I will be picking up a copy.

 

[keysersoze]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

<font size="3">Suggestion:

If you're suggesting a book, more likely than not, you have read that book and you're recommending the book because of your experience with it. So, along with your recommendation that the book be read, how about a short "Book Review" that gives a brief (very brief) synopsis of your thoughts on what the book is about, how well does it accomplishes its purpose; and why you recommend that others read the book.

QueEx

Good point Que, I have some interesting thoughts about the books I recommended, especially Howard Zinn's book.

I'll be sure to edit them into the thread.

Any recommendations from you?

 

[keysersoze]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

PROPS TO MUCKRAKER FOR HOOKING UP THE AUDIO LECTURES TO THIS BOOK!

This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.

“Economic hit men,” John Perkins writes, “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.”


Title: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Author: Perkins, John
Reader: Emerson, Brian
Format: Audio Download (Unabridged)
Running Time: 09 hours : 17 min.
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.


John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.

This extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world.


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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Dope Thread...

 

[water]

Re: Recommend Some Serious Books from Your Summer Reading List

Good idea.

Thought I would drop in my contribution

http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?t=116770




If you want me to elaborate then I could.........