(Part 3) Top products from r/texas

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry for little bit of culture through fiction and Texas by James A. Mitchner, which is technically still fiction but is really just factual history communicated by narrative.

I can't recommend these highly enough. Not only do they capture Texas perfectly, but they are highly enjoyable reads.

Edit: Also, skarter, thanks for taking an interest in Texas.

My dear friend, one can learn a lot about a culture by their history of food. Texas is known as a BBQ state. What you may or may not know, is that Texas was once part of Mexico and there is a Mexican influence, it's known as Tex-Mex. There is a guy named Robb Walsh who has written two great books on each topic. What I like about each book is they have recipes but they also have details history about how and why, with small stories about regardless of differences in color, culture or class, everyone loves great food.

I would suggest the following books for you to read:
Legends of Texas BBQ and The Tex-Mex cookbook

As a recent transplant, I listened to Lone Star Nation (the 2004 book) on my 3 day drive down here last year, and became interested in the Birth of Texas. I like the state and find myself wanting to learn more about my new home. It's got a slew of lesser known, but great actors, such as Crispin Glover, Jake Busey, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, as well as more well-known actors as Kris Kristofferson and Ray Liotta.


I take any historical fiction with a pillar of salt....especially coming from the network that gave us 'Vikings'.

Still, this might be good. Is this on anyone else's radar?

You can see a 2-minute trailer here.

I read this book where the author travels to and writes extensively about Loving County (among other places). It was pretty interesting. He does make it sound like a lot of the people who live there are related one way or another and that there is a lot of familial infighting that has gone on for quite some time.

I don't know enough about unions to make any type of meaningful or positive contribution to this conversation. But I thought I might share a new novel that I suspect fans of restaurant unions would appreciate. Texas author from Dallas.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385538073?pc_redir=1409924220&robot_redir=1

The big name in Edward III is W. Mark Ormrod, and he is fantastic. The only thing we disagree on is this issue with the clergy, and the ensuing mess it makes. So I highly recommend his newest publication, Edward III.

If you are interested in Patronage, James Bothwell's Edward III and the English Peerage is fascinating, and really well-documented.

Scott Waugh has a really great book on what was going on generally during his reign called England in the Reign of Edward III
that is a good foundational book, while Before the Black Death starts to get into some of the more interesting debates about the state of England prior to the Black Death.

If you are at all interested in the legal side, Robert Palmer's English Law in the Age of the Black Death is a meticulously researched examination of the transformation of Edward III's legal and domestic policies in the wake of the Black Death. A fairly controversial book, but again, the documentation is incredibly solid.

Truth. Recommended reading to anyone here interested in this bit of history: https://www.amazon.com/Injustice-Never-Leaves-You-Anti-Mexican/dp/0674976436

Edit: If cost is an issue, Harris County Public Library, Houston Public Library, and Montgomery County Memorial Library System all own copies of the book for borrowing. Library cards are free for residents!

Well then you are doing so for no other reason than empty pride

Limo Liberal

Rise of the Liberal Rich
Wealthy Liberals oust Bush

Need more?

You're dreaming if you think the wealthy aren't the ones that get anybody elected. But thanks for observing reddiquette by downvoting my comment because you didn't like it.

Well, not so much a fan, but recently discovered him. I picked up this:

http://www.amazon.com/Rogues-George-R-R-Martin/dp/0345537262

which includes a short story by him, and having lived in the Longview/Marshall area from 2002 through 2010, I had to get more of his books. Didn't even know Bubba Hotep was by him also, which I watched because Bruce Campbell, and then liked for the same reasons, hey, something local!

You've never read Green Eggs And Ham. It's a Dr. Seuss book. You should check it out.

https://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469

learn how to think critically

https://www.amazon.com/Texas-Myths-Legends-Historys-Mysteries/dp/1493026127

https://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Legends-Texas-Unsolved-Unexplained/dp/0762758740

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0762773286/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_nUHAzbB1SBZHQ

Here's an old SciFi book about doing just that!

That is not cheaper unfortunately. The person pulling the trigger still has to live with that guilt. https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316040932

Hanging still sucks. I honestly don't think there is a way to perform an execution without the psychological costs associated. Not to mention the possible therapy required for the person who enacted the execution.

Recommended: No Name on the Bullet (1989) by Don Graham.



And of course the 1955 classic film about Audie Murphy, starring Audie Murphy, To Hell and Back. (Yeah, it's not Oscar material but it's become an historical artifact over time.)

I know enough to know it seems completely fucked.


And yes, this is coming from an Australian. I posted it here precisely because I believe you need some perspective.



Edit: here you go some further reading

oh, so if they say they are communists but you say they are not, then it is okay. thanks for the clarification, i guess the whole "communist party" is not a good enough argument.

i do like how you rationalize away the whole millions of people killed by this ideology.

try reading this book and tell me that supporting communism and nazism are not the same...

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087

its odd though, they keep calling them communists...

From Publishers Weekly
In France, this damning reckoning of communism's worldwide legacy was a bestseller that sparked passionate arguments among intellectuals of the Left. Essentially a body count of communism's victims in the 20th century, the book draws heavily from recently opened Soviet archives. The verdict: communism was responsible for between 85 million and 100 million deaths in the century. In France, both sales and controversy were fueled, as Martin Malia notes in the foreword, by editor Courtois's specific comparison of communism's "class genocide" with Nazism's "race genocide." Courtois, the director of research at the prestigious Centre Research National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and editor of the journal Communisme, along with the other distinguished French and European contributors, delivers a fact-based, mostly Russia-centered wallop that will be hard to refute: town burnings, mass deportations, property seizures, family separations, mass murders, planned faminesAall chillingly documented from conception to implementation. The book is divided into five sections. The first and largest takes readers from the "Paradoxes of the October Revolution" through "Apogee and Crisis in the Gulag System" to "The Exit from Stalinism." Seeing the U.S.S.R. as "the cradle of all modern Communism," the book's other four sections document the horrors of the Iron Curtain countries, Soviet-backed agitation in Asia and the Americas, and the Third World's often violent embrace of the system. A conclusionA"Why?"Aby Courtois, points to a bureaucratic, "purely abstract vision of death, massacre and human catastrophe" rooted in Lenin's compulsion to effect ideals by any means necessary. (Oct.)
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