Bachman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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An aristocracy of vibes
Suttree
Cormac McCarthyBachman@lmrwanda @Paracelsus1092 Anyway, Cormac McCarthy does a good job in some of his books (Suttree, Outer Dark, Child of God, The Orchard Keeper) of capturing the shitless tempo of poverty https://t.co/mJTNqddoD9
Paperback, 1992
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru
Pedro PizarroBachman16\ Sex and Reason (Posner) and The Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru (Pizarro) https://t.co/QNgqTDtb9w
Out of stock
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence
David BenatarBachmanThis page is not in every edition of David Benatar's anti-natalist "Better Never to Have Been", so I don't know if it is an accidental or intentional hilarity https://t.co/L2PBisZJ7t
Paperback, 2008
$40.99$20.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lothair
B. DisraeliBachmanDisraeli's "Lothair" delighted readers but got carping reviews from critics Some of the criticism is hilarious ("can we really trust such an imaginative politician?") Imagine the GOP criticizing Romney for writing a *too* solid piece of literature https://t.co/MoHTqwM24b
Paperback, 2022
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared DiamondBachman@misha_saul If you want a full-throated critique of "Guns, Germs, and Steel", you might enjoy "Understanding Human History", by Hart. It's Wrongthink start to finish, but you can enjoy the bits that specifically address Jared Diamond regardless of whether you subscribe to the Wrongthink
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
Roger CrowleyBachman7\ Anglo-Saxon England (Stenton) and Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Crowley) https://t.co/g8ArzW9VHs
Hardcover, 2015
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II
Thomas FlemingBachman8\ The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (Fleming) and Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test (Gordon) https://t.co/Z9ZHQLPGpl
Paperback, 2002
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Road: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Cormac McCarthyBachmanIf I'd read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" 20 years ago, I'd have thought "this is good dystopian fiction" Reading it now, with a lot of ethnographic history under by belt, my reaction is "this is accurate, except that the father refuses to eat strangers"
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas MurrayBachman22\ A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial (Mencken) and The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (Murray) https://t.co/cZPNkC4Fzn
Paperback, 2018
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie GarmusBachmanOk, so far we have Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book