Hi all! Recently I got into reading again after struggling with it for a couple of years. I found out that I love short books a lot as they help me stay engaged. That’s why I would love to hear your recommendations for short books (< 200 pages) that made an impact on you! For example: I really liked The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho) and Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut). Suggestions can be fiction or non-fiction. Thanks! 🙂
by AnnaSilvermane
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
The Ronin by William Dale Jennings
Harold by Steven Wright
2038: Lost Identity
The 2001 Anthrax Deception: the Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen.
A no-nonsense look at the 2001 anthrax attacks. The founder of the Centre of Peace Studies at McMaster University makes an excellent case that elements of the US government and the neocons of the Project for the New American Century could have played a role in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
The attacks were blamed on Afghan terrorists armed with Iraqi anthrax, yet, despite initial claims of Saddam’s “signature additive” of bentonite, studies later showed that the anthrax sent in letters that killed 5 and injured 17 Americans contained no such additive, and was actually produced in US bioweapons labs. Shoddy attempts were made to blame a “lone wolf” bioweapons lab worker Bruce Ivins, but he “committee suicide” by Tylenol overdose before the case got to court.
Ivins’ family and co-workers said this was an oddly painful way to go for someone who thoroughly understood effects of drugs on the body, and also raised doubts that Ivins could have personally made such an advanced weapon alone on his free time. The FBI spokesperson was very sweaty and stammering in their press conference when they closed the Amerithrax case! It’s obvious watching it that they are hiding something.
Fascinating stuff that led me to completely rethink US foreign policy, domestic “deep” events, and look more into the oddities surrounding the official story of 9/11.