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Showing posts with label Peter Urban. Show all posts
Peter Urban 🔖 answers thirteen questions in Booker's Dozen.

TPQ: What are you currently reading?

PU: Revolutionary Works of Seamus Costello. Just finished the piece on abolishing ground rents.

TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read?

PU: Tough questions. Worst book: Atlas Shrugged. Best book: 1984.

TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?

PU: Perhaps Alice in Wonderland.

TPQ: Favourite Childhood author?

PU: Probably Tolkien.

TPQ: First book to really own you?

PU: Lord of the Rings.


TPQ: Favourite male and female author?

PU:  Non-fiction: Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg; Fiction: Mark Twain and Ursala Le Guin.

TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?

PU: Preference is for Non-Fiction, generally history.

TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?

PU: Maybe Homage To Catalonia.

TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?

PU: I refuse to read any more Ayn Rand. 

TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?

PU: Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick.

TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?

PU: Paul Mattick's Anti-Bolshevik Communism.  

TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?

PU: Just a stab in the dark, but maybe Hesse's Beneath the Wheel

TPQ: The just must - select one book you simply have to read before you close the final page on life.

PU: Book I must read before dying - I simply have no idea. 

Peter Urban is a former manager of punk rock bands, who joined the Irish Republican Socialist Movement in 1981 and headed their North American support organisation for 25 years, before helping to form the International Republican Socialist Network, to build support for those jointly engaged in struggles for national liberation and socialism.

Booker's Dozen @ Peter Urban