Posted on 09/29/2008 7:19:37 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 "Blockaders, Refugees & Contrabands: Civil War on Florida's Gulf Coast 1861-1865."
It's a very interesting book about how the US Navy was able to turn a substantial portion of Florida's Gulf Coast population against the Confederacy, creating a civil war within that part of Florida.
So tell me...what are YOU reading now?
The Last Lion - biography of Winston Churchill. Also, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).
Just finished: America Alone - Mark Steyn
Just started: The Whole Shebang - Timothy Ferris
Darkness and Dawn by
George Allan England
I'm almost finished reading it for the first time. I hate to see it end, so I am taking it s-l-o-w-l-y.
Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution By Morton White
The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Morris (Author)
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Paperback)
by John R. Talbott (Author)
Your worst nightmare is about to come true!-gris
Some great sci-fi can be found here: http://www.freesfonline.de/
Excellent books. Too bad Manchester died before publishing the last installment.
A History of the English Speaking Peoples from 1900 by Andrew Roberts.
I need a little bit of good news and optimism these days.
A Patriot’s History of the United States
http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Columbuss/dp/1595230327/
and re-reading
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
http://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Thomas-Paine/dp/0977798208/
which the House and Senate should be required to read along with the Constitution before voting on this bill.
Plum Island / Nelson DeMille. - Very entertaining murder mystery. I want to read more by the author
The rising tide : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara.- fictional depiction of the North Africa campaign but a good read. Kinda dry.
The avengers / Rich Cohen.- non-fiction about Jewish partisans in WW2.
Yes, it is.
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Morris (Author)
Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Paperback)
by John R. Talbott (Author)
Your worst nightmare is about to come true!-gris
Romanov Bride
Remembering Hypatia
Starting: World Without End
Highly recommended if you are interested in how and why the Roman Empire and ancient Greek societies and armies functioned, but as they were understood to function by the Greeks and Romans themselves, rather than through the prism of modern theories of society or the state.
Just started re-reading Heiddegger's lectures on Plato's Sophist.
I am reading Revolutions in World History by Michael D. Richards- it is just an overview of major revolutions but it is interesting and makes you want to find out more about some of the information. No, I am not planning a revolution- not yet anyway.
No matter what else I am reading I always have a crime drama in progress and right now it is Double Take by Catherine Coulter- it is just ok nothing special. Good enough to keep reading and not so good that I can’t put it down when I need to do something else.
Books in the field of education that I have read recently include Bending the Twig by Augustine Rudd (Heritage Foundation, 1957), Educational Wastelands; The Retreat from Learning in our Public Schools (University of Illinois Press, 1953), The Diminished Mind: A Study of Planned Mediocrity in Our Schools (Regnery, 1954), and Crisis in Education: a study in American Complacency (Whittlesey, 1950). These are classic critiques of "progressive" education that are about as relevant today as when they were written. I eventually hope to be brought up to date when I get around to reading The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) (Tarcher, 2008).
I don't read much fiction, but earlier this year, I finished The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas (Houghton Mifflin, 1948), a novel based on the life of the apostle Peter, but which left me disappointed due to its historical and biblical inaccuracies.
In the field of politics, I started the year reading The Romney Riddle (Berwyn, 1967), a "campaign" book that provides an unflattering look at Mitt Romney's father George, who was gearing up for a run for the presidency in 1968. I also read Not Without Honor--The History of American Angi-Communism by Richard Gid Powers (Free Press, 1996), a scholarly analysis of "good" and "bad" anti-Communism.
In the near future, I'm planning to read The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values by Brad O'Leary (WND, 2008) and The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert J. Nock (Regnery, 1949)
I also just finished listening to “Reliquary” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
This time of year I looooove getting out a good horror book, especially on audio. “Carrie” by Stephan King is on my re-listen list and I just re-listened to “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin. Both are sooo much better then their movies.
Mia Farrow saying, “Those eyes! What’s wrong with his eyes!?!?!” will forever creep me out.
(I had to balance out all the smart people books with some good mindless fiction! ;-))
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