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Why circle the country on a bicycle?
I want to explore. The desire for the ever new and ever different, the wildness and thrill of going where I haven’t been, lands me in situations where I don’t know how to behave. It gives me tales to tell and unkown terrain to point my life towards. Life becomes a land of tests that…
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Book: The Jungle / Upton Sinclair
Sinclair’s portrayal of Capitalism is quite similar to Rand’s portrayal of Socialism. The two books together say a lot about rhetorical fiction.
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Book: The Prince / Niccolo Macciavelli
A great peek into the political map of the early 16th century, and a practical guide to conquering and reigning over your own principality.
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Book: Why People Believe Weird Things / Michael Shermer
How do you face this odd world if you want to live by reason? Here is one skeptic’s entertaining attempt.
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Book: Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand
A vision of industrialist gods and socialist monsters.
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Book: Lost in Place / Mark Salzman
An autobiography of teenage years lived in throes of both passionate discipline and innocent impressionability.
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Book: The Life and Times of King Henry VIII / Robert Lacey
Monarchs are like a box of chocolates… and this one takes the cake. Keep in mind that all this really happened. Amazon inventory
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Book: The Catcher in the Rye / J.D. Salinger
A depressed teenager accosts the world with scathing criticisms in a hopeless search for something genuine.
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Book: King Rat / James Clavell
Prisoners in a Japanese camp in China during WWII have various means of survival, one rising above the rest.
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Book: Great Lakes Solo / Mary Blocksma
An account by an adventurous woman who sets out to travel the length of the United States-side of the Great Lakes coast.