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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey of Freeper Reading Habits
9/29/08 | MplsSteve

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?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: bestsellers; books; classics; godsgravesglyphs; greatreads; magazines; pages; readers
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To: Verloona Ti
The Summa of St Thomas Aquinas.

Good Lord, don't try to read that like a novel. It's good for reference material and there are online collections with search engines. I recently purchased the entire Aquinas collection that has been translated into English on CD which also includes a search engine and other bells and whistles. Also, I think it would be difficult to understand the Summa Theologica (I'm assuming you are not referring to Summa Contra Gentiles) without a firm grounding in Aristotle.

41 posted on 09/29/2008 7:33:36 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: MplsSteve
"Eye of The Tiger"
Wilbur Smith
42 posted on 09/29/2008 7:33:58 AM PDT by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: MplsSteve
A lot of light reading.

One good thing I found on the Internet was two books and several PDF original newspaper files on the Last Island
Hurricane.
In the sixties, I read a small item in a magazine about
the last Island hurricane which talked about this resort
being cut in two pieces and only one survivor.

I would try to find information about this story every ten
or so.
The truth was more survivors were saved.

43 posted on 09/29/2008 7:34:19 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Obama and ITS thugs are made paranoid by Sarahnoia. (stole from molly_jack2007))
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To: mlocher
"Why are you embarrassed? If things get as bad as some expect, then you at least will be able to put food on your family's table!"

Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan isn't really about fishing. Richard Brautigan was a "counterculture" writer that was very popular with young people back in the 60's and 70's. A bit like Samuel Clemens after a few bong hits. Long ago, in high school, and even while in the service. I enjoyed writers like him and Herman Hesse.

44 posted on 09/29/2008 7:35:06 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: mnehrling
Just finished reading "The Road," (one-day read) and "The Card" ...Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card (also a one-day read). If you've ever wondered how one baseball card, the Gretzky Honus Wagner T206, could increase in value to $2.85 million dollars, this book provides the answer. Very interesting read.

I also log many hours of "windshield time," so I listen to an average of two books a month. Currently listening to "The Potato Factory."

45 posted on 09/29/2008 7:35:51 AM PDT by The Citizen Soldier (For the first time in my life I am voting for Vice President!)
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To: MplsSteve

A Francis Schaeffer Trilogy.....an analysis of modern liberal philosophical and religious thought from an orthodox Christian point of view. Not easy reading, but very interesting.


46 posted on 09/29/2008 7:36:39 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Hey DU: Shut your festering gobs, you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts!)
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To: MplsSteve

Re-reading “My Name is Asher Lev”.


47 posted on 09/29/2008 7:36:48 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Obviously, liberals can't handle a strong, independent woman.)
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To: MplsSteve; Salamander; yorkie

“An Analysis of Euclidian Geometric Priciples Viewed Through the Prism of Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic and a Platonic Solid Cosmology” by A. E. Newman

- and -

“The Life and Times of Hung Mung” by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Kayyam Ravenhurst


48 posted on 09/29/2008 7:36:47 AM PDT by shibumi (...vampire outlaw of the milky way...)
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To: Victory111

America Alone is worth rereading...but my husband has my copy on his to-read table. Wish he would get that done.


49 posted on 09/29/2008 7:36:55 AM PDT by vharlow (http://www.harlowhome.com)
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To: DNME

The advantage was lost because they ignored the need to supply their troops. Japan expected the army to live off the land.


50 posted on 09/29/2008 7:37:22 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: MplsSteve
Those Who Save Us

A Conflict of Visions

What Doctors Think

GRE for Dummies

51 posted on 09/29/2008 7:38:05 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: VR-21
Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan isn't really about fishing.

I guess the joke is on me and I should be embarrassed! I remember reading "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" perhaps 30 years. I would like to continue this dialogue, but "Stop! I must have drugs!"

52 posted on 09/29/2008 7:38:08 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign state.)
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To: MplsSteve
Currently reading Treatise on Contemporary American Reading Habits.

:p

Seriously, on the menu for today is:

"Density-functional method for nonequilibrium electron transport" an older paper (printed)

and

Scaling theory put into practice: first-principles modeling of transport in doped silicon nanowires

A few pages apiece, but they take at 1-2 hours each to read properly.

53 posted on 09/29/2008 7:38:11 AM PDT by M203M4 (True Universal Suffrage: Pets of dead illegal-immigrant felons voting Democrat (twice))
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To: MplsSteve

I’m reading “The Last Centurion” by John Ringo while waiting for my hubby to finish “Anathem” by Neal Stephenson.


54 posted on 09/29/2008 7:38:45 AM PDT by mouse_35 (Vote Demorcrat for 2008! Lets do for Iraq what we did for Cambodia!!!)
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To: MplsSteve
"The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels" by Thomas Gold

"Dead Heat" by Joel C. Rosenberg

"Two Nations Under God: Why You Should Care about Israel" by Thomas Doyle

55 posted on 09/29/2008 7:39:33 AM PDT by KriegerGeist (I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
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To: MplsSteve

I just finished “Agent Zigzag” last night. It’s the story of Eddie Chapman who was a spy for the British during WWII. (Though the Germans thought he was working for them) It was part of the Double Cross operation. Good read.


56 posted on 09/29/2008 7:39:44 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: MplsSteve
Tobruk, Peter FitzSimons. The Australian perspective of Hitler's first lost battles in WWII

The Worst Hard Times, Timothy Eagen. The story of the dust bowl in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson. The fossil record...and the methods used, and assumptions made, to study them.

The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King. Sherlock Holmes, the later years.

The Proud Tower, Barbara W. Tuchman. The historical events that occurred in the thirty years prior to WWI.

The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager. The discovery of Sulpha drugs between the two world wars.

57 posted on 09/29/2008 7:39:48 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: MplsSteve

Last nite I read the last chapter of Reversible Errors by Scott Turow, coming up tonite I start The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson.


58 posted on 09/29/2008 7:40:36 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (Say what you feel, those who matter don't mind, those who mind don't matter.)
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To: MplsSteve

“Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson.

Story of the 1906 Chicago World’s Fair and one of America’s first serial killers. A fascinating true story.

Excellent book.


59 posted on 09/29/2008 7:40:46 AM PDT by cpanter (Babies, guns and Jesus. Hot Damn! - Rush on the Palin pick.)
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To: MplsSteve
The Road - post-apocalyptic novel about a father & son surviving what is looking suspiciously like a nuclear winter (not done yet, so dunno what the grand catastrophe is). Shocked my wife into a survivalist mindset.
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin - good summary of his life's work & motivations (first half depicts him as a devout Brit; can't wait to see what made the 180 to revolutionary leader).
I Am A Strange Loop - further examination of what "self" (aka "I") is and the source of consciousness from the lauded author of Goedel Escher Bach.
The Everything Texas Hold 'Em Book - after seeing Casino Royale a second time, I had to learn the rules just to better understand this oft-depicted game.
What Is Bound To Happen - a friend's grandfather's examination of the Book Of Revelations.
Holy Terror - the Rogue Warrior is back for his Nth novel; he writes 'em, I read 'em, it's pulp (and I met him recently, where this Ultimate Tough Guy was fawning over my baby daughter).
Anathem - latest hardcore big-deal sci-fi.
Children of the Mind - fourth tale in the Ender Wiggin saga.

Too many books in the hopper.

60 posted on 09/29/2008 7:41:48 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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