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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey of Freeper Reading Habits
9/27/07

Posted on 09/27/2007 8:09:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve

It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread!

It can be anything...a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!

DO NOT answer by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It stopped being funny a long time ago.

Here's what I'm reading. I'm just about finished with "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall. It's about France's war in Vietnam from 1946-1954. Very interesting and tragic.

So, tell me. What are you reading now?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: bookreview; books; literature; magazines; readinglist; yourfavorites
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To: MplsSteve
I just finished 13 Moons by Chas. Frazier which was pretty good...not as good as Cold Mountain but almost.

Before that, I read The Secret Servant by Daniel Silva which someone upthread mentioned and recommended. This is an Israeli spy thriller-it is a series and is very current.

I am about to pick up an Ian Rankin book next..the Inspector Rebus series.

Re: Grisholm....I will never buy another book of his. I was going to give the ones I have by him away to the thrift shop but then I decided it might encourage whoever bought them to buy some of his books. So I will keep them, for now.

321 posted on 09/27/2007 7:31:49 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
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To: MplsSteve

“Atlas Shrugged”—again.


322 posted on 09/27/2007 7:40:18 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: fella

Have you read Kay Summersby Morgan’s book about Ike ?...


323 posted on 09/27/2007 7:59:45 PM PDT by billmor
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To: Berlin_Freeper

In 1967, spent about 5 months in a field area about 10 miles north of the Ia Drang battle site..It was definitely one of the spookiest areas we were in while over there.

Have read accounts of the battle and it was a long and vicious battle which lasted for days. Hair raising stuff if you are into non-fiction war books...One of the best books on that battle is “ We wWere Soldiers Once..and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle That Changed The War” by Lt.Gen. Harold G. and Joseph Galloway...

Another highly recommended book is “ The End of the Line: The Seige at Khe San” by Robert Pisor...The weather had turned bad and our guys,mostly Marines, were stuck on a mountaintop fortification for 2 months while the surrounding NVA pounded them with everything they had. This is their story.


324 posted on 09/27/2007 8:17:55 PM PDT by billmor
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To: A knight without armor

Let me know how those ribs turn out. I have a weakness for good beef.


325 posted on 09/27/2007 10:40:25 PM PDT by reformed_democrat ("... it's a dishonor to leave your allies." President Traian Basescu, Romania)
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To: mnehrling

“For Fun- Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte.”

What is this? I read his Camulod series. Is this another book in the series? I read he was not writing another one after the Lance Thrower.


326 posted on 09/27/2007 11:29:58 PM PDT by neb52
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To: neb52
Yes, he is starting a new series about the origins of the Knights Templar and Masons.
327 posted on 09/28/2007 6:12:20 AM PDT by mnehring (!! Warning, Quoting Ron Paul Supporters can be Hazardous to your Reputation !!)
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To: MplsSteve

“Enola Gay - The Bombing of Hiroshima”


328 posted on 09/28/2007 6:14:29 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE I.R.S.)
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To: MplsSteve

The Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak and The Pearl by John Steinbeck.


329 posted on 09/28/2007 6:15:36 AM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: billmor

NO, but now I’ve got to go to the bookstore.


330 posted on 09/28/2007 8:08:47 AM PDT by fella (The proper application of the truth far more important than the knowledge of it's existance."Ike")
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To: pillut48
Re-read them over the past 30 years probably a hundred times.

For me, maybe not a HUNDRED, but several times.;)

331 posted on 09/28/2007 8:29:27 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 ( Mexico does not stop at its border, Wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. Calderon)
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To: reformed_democrat

Roger that.


332 posted on 09/28/2007 10:27:02 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: bagadonutz

Spy was awesome. I’m struggling to listen to even ten minutes straight of “4 hour” but I have an audible account so that was my selection for the month. I prefer fiction in audiobooks. Any suggestions?


333 posted on 09/28/2007 1:48:30 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Election 2008--It's all about the judges!!)
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To: DaveLoneRanger; MplsSteve; All
AN ABSOLUTE MUST READ!!!!!!!!
334 posted on 10/04/2007 6:29:00 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: All

bttt


335 posted on 10/04/2007 7:37:35 AM PDT by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: MplsSteve

If you have a ping list for these book threads, please include me.


336 posted on 11/25/2007 11:32:53 AM PST by TradicalRC (Let's make immigration Safe, Legal and Rare.)
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To: MplsSteve
Am finishing “ The Day the War ended “ by Martin Gilbert. Gilbert is a wonderful historian and a favorite of mine.
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Have started “ Greenback “ by Jason Goodwin which is a history of paper money in the US.

am thinking of re-reading “ Paul Revere and the World he lived in “ by Forbes. Fantastic book which is not just about Revere but gives an account of life in colonial New England.

I just wish I had more time to read.

337 posted on 09/28/2008 9:56:40 PM PDT by warsaw44
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