Posted on 03/29/2011 9:52:18 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Hi everyone! It's time again for my "What Are You Reading?" thread.
As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us on the Internet. I like to find out what all of you are reading these days.
It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a classic work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.
However, please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became really unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm about 15% of the way thru "Henry Clay: The Essential American" by David & Jeanne Heidler. Many books have been written on Henry Clay but this one seems to be the most comprehensive. At times, the authors can be a little long-winded - but all in all, it's a good book about one of the giants of the early 19th Century.
Well, what are YOU reading?
Going to read it—thanks! Sadly, I have relatives that I need to give it to for Christmas....LOL
The reason I said that is on post #79. I like Bill Bryson too, but you’re right, he is a big lib.
Just finished “True Grit” and now reading “The H. L. Hunley.”
i’ll probably follow that with a couple of good old Louis L’Amour novels, before I start another history or biography.
Exactly!
I can't imagine. I read everything, even Barbara Cartland romances, but I rarely list the pulp fiction on the "What are you reading?" thread because I'm finished with it so quickly. What I *was* reading includes murder mysteries and Westerns, but what I *am* reading is politics and religion and travel: one in the bedroom, one in the living room, and one following me around the other rooms.
Spot on trisham...great storyteller and VERY funny. John Corey is hilarious, but Brenner is good too.
Ahh, OK I see what you meant. Looking down the list most seem to be reading fiction (mine is fiction with heavy theory and chemistry mixed in...ala Heinlein) or history. Frankly I don't have much interest in reading political books, but this is FR, so I would assume you would see more interest in that type thing here than in the general public.
It came out today.
Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs...Wendy Brown
Suicide notes.
I'm correcting them for grammar, spelling, and punctuation and sending them back.
Non-fiction is my preference, by far. All the liberals I know, NEVER read non-fiction. It is ALWAYS Steven King or others. I keep trying to get them to read history, but as we who read non-fiction understand.....history always repeats itself if you do not learn from it.
That is why liberals are so ignorant about so many things and promote evil—like Marxism, homosexuality, matriarchy....because they have never studied those societies that actually applied their vision of utopia and were crushed because of their worldview, in the end. Certain cultures are more successful than others....some ideas are superior to others....some religions are more successful, productive and lead to much more freedom.
What they NEVER understand, is that there is NO new idea under the sun. They think they are “progressive” when they are regressive and trying out failed destructive ideas.
Oh I’ve read it. The latest book was originally scheduled to be out today. Bummer.
I hated it when Heinlein would do that. I remember reading "Number of the Beast" and every time he would throw out some pointless mathematical formula my eyes would glaze over. I was a fan of his older stuff, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers, Time Enough For Love....great stuff.
LOL! That book kept my 1960 VW beetle (my first car) running until I finally gave it away, still running fine, 5 years later.
I got it from the library a year or so back - very depressing. Are those the same people that used to have an EMPIRE???
“What the Night Knows” - Dean Koontz
I’m about 10% into “The World War II Tommy: British Army Uniforms, European Theatre 1939-45” by Martin Brawley.
Lots of nice pictures, if you’re into British WWII stuff.
Absolutely. Imho, “Up Country” is one of DeMille’s best.
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