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The Knights who stood

Reviewed: 02-07-24

This is an amazing account of the siege of Malta where the Knights withstood the muslim assault. Would highly recommend this book.

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Only modernity can hurt this book

Reviewed: 09-28-22

Mitchell's deep and thorough analysis of the spiritual wound on the US from Puritanism is an excellent ones. While still leaning into certain Liberal tendencies, he desires a truly conservative approach to the problems of today and his means of moving forward. I think this book is a must read.

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A Second Reading, For The Win

Reviewed: 09-22-22

The first time I read this, I was Libertarian and half of what he said didnt even register. Now, going back through, I think this book is more relevant than ever. The resistance to any masculine urge or principle os what defines our age, and I pray it comes to an end.

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Simply a masterpiece.

Reviewed: 09-15-22

I cant really say more than the title. While it varies from the Biblical account in some small ways (like Adam not being with Eve when she ate), it is an excellent work that brings out the emotion and setting of Genesis through some useful speculation.

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As a Prot

Reviewed: 09-14-22

As a Protestant, specifically a reformed Baptist, this book is amazing. I love Chestertons whit and his framing. While there were a few thngs he is in error about, this is well worth the read as a Christian who appreciates Philosophy.

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A great story with unexpected troubles

Reviewed: 08-10-22

I loved this book. The story was great and deserves its acclaim. Clark is an excellent Storyteller and the wonders of the unknown here are on full display. Even simple things we take for granted, like how a three legged biot would walk or the visual of an ocean that youncan see on the inside of a cylinder was well conveyed and fun to listen to.

What stuck me was how sterile the future was. People had no real connection to family, no love of the land, and how the only real childlike wonder was found in the anomalous Rama that showed up from outer space. Children were conceived in vitro, any form of growing food was industrialized or only done by wealthy and bored people. Everything was regimented and formal.

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An Insightful Book

Reviewed: 04-25-22

When understood through the mindset of being-v-becoming, this book really cuts to the heart of the evils of modernity. We live in a demystified world of cogs and mechanics, and the spirit of what is is no longer recognized, only sheer reason and material.

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Solid logic from terrible premises.

Reviewed: 08-16-21

Hoppe is restricted to two fundamental premises:

1) he makes the error of interpreting all human action as inherently economic, and sees the rise of both Aristocracy and Monarchy as attempts to solidify economic power, exclusively.

2) he relies heavily on the idea of universal and abstract principles, which are one of the primary criticisms of Alistair's book. In some real sense, one cannot divorce Morals, Economics, or Virtue from the tradition from which they were identified and exposited. For instance, when Kant tried to do this with his Universal Maxim of Goodwill, he simply reinterpreted Protestant Theology into a secular Theory of Ethics. To Hoppe, economic theory IS ethical theory, and the universal law is property ownership. The traditions through which people actually live and conduct themselves dont exist outside of economic fictions spun by the elites to swindle the Yeoman into servitude.


Hoppe's "optimism" is then that decentralization will happen to such a degree that any kind of economic "tyranny" would be either simply impracticable or so undesirable that it couldn't feasibly happen. Not only does this discount human motivations and environments playing a role in such things, but the fact that humans focus on narrative more than brute facts makes both his synopsis of history and his prognostications highly suspect.

Governmental power has been established in a number of ways, but previously it had more to do with the symbol the leadership represented and how well they did so. This alone can disprove Hoppe's claims, in my view.

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Wow! What a gem of scifi!

Reviewed: 06-28-21

I have to say, when this book was recommended, i took a while to read it because I really didn't know what to expect. I wish i would've read it sooner. A story composed of minor stories telling a larger tale. Simmons expects his readers to dig into the characters and really try to understand them. If you don't understand the characters, the story doesn't makes sense. Through various themes pulled from mythology, philosophical conclusions derived from a deep well of understanding, and a good grasp of history, Simmons weaves a tale of disparate characters on various suicide missions all centered around one location on a backwater planet. The character are colorful and varied, but also seem world-worn.

This book doesn't pull any punches. From a soldier with a thrill for killing to a father desperate and jaded, just trying to save his little girl, to a hedonistic poet transformed to a saytr, this book digs into the depths of what man is capable of, and the impact that has on others. Much if what these characters do is explicit, and Simmons does not filter much, but the delivery is great and full of substance. I would highly recommend this book.

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Very Edifying

Reviewed: 04-30-21

A collection of wisdom that any Christian will benefit from. From how we see Christ, to how we should deal with suffering, Sibbes takes a proper view of things,

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