Last 5 you read + current one you're reading
>Fahrenheit 451
>Fathers and Sons
>King Lear
>The Old Man And The Sea
>A Slip Under A Microscope
>Macbeth
ITT
Benjamin Wilson
Easton Howard
>I’m 15 and spring break just started
Hunter Price
Last 5 I've read
>Ulysses
>Ulysses a second time
>Ulysses a third time
>Ulysses a fourth time
>Finnegans Wake
Currently reading
>a jury duty exemption notice for being declared mentally unfit
Oliver Long
>The Iliad
>Walden
>A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
>The State of the Union (Albert Jay Nock)
>The Odyssey
>Principles of Economics (Menger)
Jordan Jackson
>The Savage Detectives
>The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
>The New York Trilogy
>The Waste Land
>1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
>Faust
Lincoln Peterson
>>A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism (Hans-Hermann Hoppe)
>>The State of the Union (Albert Jay Nock)
Your thoughts on these?
Angel Ross
>Propaganda
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Shadow of the Torturer
>An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding
>Ethics
The Fatal Egg
Alexander Anderson
Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
Dark tower- the gunslinger
48 laws of power
Mastery - Robert Greene
The Prince
Current: 33 strategies of war
Colton Young
>Theory of Socialism and Capitalism
It's the first work of Hoppe's that I've ever read. His style is delightfully lucid, and I'm overall very impressed. However, his arguments sometimes feel lacking. I don't have the book on hand, but I recall that in the final chapter (on the matter of private vs. public defense), his closing argument is something like
>well, even if it doesn't work out, at least we will have experienced true liberty for a little bit
I have his book "The Myth of National Defense" cued up somewhere down the line, so I hope to find some more substantive arguments there. Overall, though, I highly recommend this as an introductory work to modern Austrian thought.
>State of the Union
Nock is a phenomenal social critic. Where Mencken excels at biting wit and criticism, Nock is much more sympathetic, often painting a better picture of how/why the average Joe thinks as he does (about art, politics, etc.), even if he is ultimately as critical towards them as the former is. His essays "A Little Conserva-tive", "An Anarchist's Progress", and "Isaiah's Job" were probably my favorites, but his apolitical stuff was just as worthwhile, if for no other reason than historical value.
Zachary Sanchez
Thanks user.