WALDEN

WALDEN and

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

According to Henry David Thoreau, Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge." Readers, think about this statement for a moment.

I read Thoreau's words in a Massachusetts High School, in an American Lit college class, and now at seventy-five years old. They resonate more now because one gets wiser with age.

However, you must read his words at any age. The simplicity of Thoreau's living philosophy at WALDEN, Massachusetts, in the 1850s, applies to many complicated situations in modern society.

The prose is uncomplicated to a reader who takes his time - a Thoreau axiom. Walden is an important story that every High School or college student should read, including us older adults.

 

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SEX TRAFFICKING

SEX TRAFFICKING

Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

SIDDHARTH KARA

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

The book SEX TRAFFICKING story ends earlier than its published date, 2017, and before the open border in the USA. Note: Eastern Europe problems and open EU borders enhance traffic.

According to the author, the global economy is one of the main reasons human trafficking has expanded. This book is not a thesis but written as a personal fact-finding journey.

The author adds individual narratives of young women's horrific lives as sex providers for drama - they are compelling, destroying faith in humans.

However, his solution crosses too many boundaries controlled by men who use those services. It is pathetic, but it is changing the world's individual countries' insurmountable economies.

Mr. Kara's detailed fact-finding is well-written, but he does not crucify the stupidity of some religions and cultures that help feed the trafficking. In his writing, I understood that governments are at fault, but religions run many.

SEX TRAFFICKING is an interesting read that needs updating but is a start.

 

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Review of SOCIAL JUSTICE FALLACIES

SOCIAL JUSTICE FALLACIES

TOMAS SOWELL

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

I am neither an intellectual elite nor a full-blown conservative. Mr. Sowell is an intellectual conservative who writes convincing arguments against fleeting progressives on their fallacies of Equal chances, Racial differences, and the other pigeonhole placements of humanity.

FALLACIES is a thesis on how the wealthy and intellectual elite (UN, WHO, and WEF, three) vanguard manipulates humanity to believe and follow their dictates. Fifty percent of it has footnotes, clarifying Sowell's thoughtful positions.

Whether you agree with his stand on racial fallacy progression, as an example, the reader will have a hard time disagreeing with his opinion. This well-written and thought-provoking book is for the Inquisitive Mind, which many of my readers have.

If you want to clear the cobwebs out of your mind and think about how the world around you happened, SOCIAL JUSTICE FALLACIES is a good read for you.

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Review of LUCK OF THE WITCH

LUCK OF THE WITCH

Crypt Witch

Cozy Mystery Series

K.E. O'CONNOR

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

What could be better than a Witch in a Cozy Mystery? Not much for me.

This story was quick for me. Willow Tree Falls is a magic tourist trap where Tempest Crypt, her family, and her hellhound reside with other witches, demons, and angels.

Tempest has a demon living within her, and her hound can talk. The other characters of the town are also strange - angels are the police, and others are half one thing or another.

Tempest's sister Aurora is arrested for murder by an unruly angel, and her investigation begins. Then, all the weird twists and turns for who murdered the mayoral candidate develop into many laughs.

Tempest and the Angel Police Force only know who has done it once a secret comes out on election day.

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Review of High heels are Murder

High Heels are murder.

Josie Mystery Shopper

ELAINE VIETS

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

Fetishes go amok after Josie completes a job as a mystery shopper at a women's shoe store. The store salesman who waited on her gets canned after she reports his strange cleaning of her shoes in the storeroom.

Even stranger is the man's murder that evening. How Josie gets involved with investigating the case is another conundrum, considering the person she is helping – her neighbor's daughter, who was arrested for the killing.

The salesman is wealthy, and many of the store's clients are entertaining at his massive house in a gated community. Josie and her long-time friend Alyce, side-kick, discover that bizarre occurrences played out numerous times.

Those weird taped events led to the demise of the salesman. How it happened makes a good read, with even a love story brewing.

 

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Review of OUTLIVE

OUTLIVE

The Science & Art

of Longevity

PETER ATTIA, MD

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

OUTLIVE is a non-fiction, with many medical terms sometimes slowing the reading. However, the information within is understandable and usable to ward off what Attia calls the four Horsemen (Sickness) that plague humans.

Your health via exercise, nutrition, sleep, and mental health can slow the human death rate. In narrative form, Dr. Attia lays out the norms and highs of each area with personal and patient history so that you can understand where you are on life's spectrum.

He does not recommend medicines and notes to check with your doctor. All his remedies are within one's reach with serious due diligence.

Peter Attia's Healthspan and Lifespan dissertation is worth the read if you care about your health.

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Review of PROFILES in IGNORANCE

PROFILES in IGNORANCE

How America's Politicians

Got Dumb and Dumber

 

ANDY BOROWITZ

 

Review by Author Roy Murry

 

"In the case of Donald Trump, people's hunger for a false story helped elect the worst president in U.S. history," writes Hollywood elitist and satirist Andy Borowitz. He also believes only Republicans are dumb.

As a non-aligned party voter since 1972, I believe the Democrats have their share of dumbasses. Remember the answer of an Oxford-taught Democrat president, "That depends on what your definition of 'is' is." 

In his wisdom, Andy leaves out every dumb Democrat, and this comic relief is published in September 2022.  One of the dumbest presidents is in the White House, who used Borowitz's definition of political craft for fifty years as a politician - Joe Biden—not mentioned.

Maybe Mr. Borowitz has TDS like Meathead (Rob Reiner), which Andy invented for the All IN THE FAMILY sitcom. Both have some eclectic reading to do.

This rant is a well-documented, one-sided read that will bring back memories if you are fifty or older. If you are younger, you will have yet to learn.

If you are a Democrat leftist, you will love this book. Otherwise, please do not waste your money as I did.

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