Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Thread
7/07/11 | MplsSteve

Posted on 07/07/2011 12:57:12 PM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! I hope your 4th of July was a good one.

it's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread. As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the Internet and I like to see what other Freepers are reading these days.

It can be anything - a classic novel, a trashy pulp romance, a technical journal, etc. Please do not deile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became very unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm just finishing "Chancellorsville 1863: The Souls of the Brave" by Ernest Furgurson. It's OK. Nothing to rave about though.

Well, what are you reading now? Let's hear about it!


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: booklist; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; reading; readinglist
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 201 next last
To: MplsSteve

I was reading “Stormlord Rising”, until my Kindle died for the second time this year.


61 posted on 07/07/2011 1:26:19 PM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeDude

There were some predictions in there, made prior to the 2008 financial crash, that were stunning!


62 posted on 07/07/2011 1:26:54 PM PDT by fightinJAG (TAXPAYERS OF THE WORLD UNITE.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: Eric in the Ozarks

My condolences about your mom.


63 posted on 07/07/2011 1:28:00 PM PDT by Krankor (I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: ConservativeDude; fightinJAG
I love the Fourth Turning.....

I concur. Excellent Book.

64 posted on 07/07/2011 1:29:58 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Financial Repression.......it answers a lot of questions.....read about it on FinancialSense.com.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

“in the Garden of Beasts” story of the newly appointed ambassador to germany in 1933 couple months after Hitler is made chancelor and the guys awakening to the horror of the Nazi’s.

Incredibly he writes it all up and sends it to DC, correctly predicting war and the holocaust, but naturally no one really listens.

great read and well written


65 posted on 07/07/2011 1:30:32 PM PDT by beebuster2000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Thane_Banquo
The book was made into a documentary--Restrepo--which I have not seen.

Worth going out of your way to find.

66 posted on 07/07/2011 1:31:19 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Tocqueville)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: ctdonath2; A_perfect_lady
“H2G2” originated as a British radio play. You must listen to it.

I have every episode of the original 12 of HHGTTG as well as the complete BBC Radiophonic Workshop broadcasts of Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase and Quintessential Phase.
They are such a treasure. We listen to them on long drives and the miles just melt away.

67 posted on 07/07/2011 1:32:00 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you think it's time to bury your weapons.....it's time to dig them up.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

I’m writing a book, called “Surviving Civil War II”, and the research for it has driven me to read more articles than books. However, the documents that will really knock your socks off are Representative Louis McFadden’s speeches regarding the Federal Reserve in the Great Depression. McFadden was a banker himself, so when he outlines the way the Fed has destroyed the currency in favor of bankers (and it mirrors what is happening today), you go ‘just wow’.
Just google Louis McFadden speech and it will pop up.

Also read again Sun Tzu’s Art of War, von Clausewitz’s On War, and HG Welles War of the World’s. I’m on a war kick I guess.

Re-Reading my own books is quite a trip, I forget what I wrote. Harry: Money Mob and Influence - the guy is absolute dirt.


68 posted on 07/07/2011 1:33:24 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve
I absolutely love this list!!! It provides wonderful ideas of books I need or want to read! So....anyway....here goes:
1. "Brothers, Rivals, Victors"
2. "Packing for Mars" (Mary Roach)
3. "Patton" (Lasislas Farago),
4. "A Terrible Glory: Custer" (James Donovan),
5. "Bloody Mary" (J.A. Konrath),
6. "Life of Martin Luther" (Julius Kostlin),
7. "Iron Coffins" (Herbert Werner),
8. "Anthem" (Ayn Rand)

Reading most of them on my new Kindle.

69 posted on 07/07/2011 1:33:32 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: prairiebreeze

“...C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” is my current...”

I’m reading BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY, by Eric Metaxas and its great. The Libs are trying to make Bonhoeffer theirs and try to depict him as a liberal or a pacifist taking a stand against those “conservative” Nazis.

But Bonhoeffer was not a pacifist and he held Biblical liberals in contempt. One of his students noted that “he taught us that we had to read the Bible as it was directed at us, as the word of God directly to us. Not something general, not something generally applicable, but rather with a personal relationship to us...” p. 129

Bonhoeffer also put it, “Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic...Do not defend God’s Word, but testyfy to it...Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity!” p. 272

Bonhoeffer was a conservative strict constructionist and held firm while his liberal (Biblical criticism—Schleiermacher school) countrymen went along with taking oaths to Hitler and bending the church to make it compatible with Nazi philosophy.


70 posted on 07/07/2011 1:36:04 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: A_perfect_lady
So I'm saving it for Saturday, when I have to fly cross-country.

Flying cross country is uncomfortably like being drunk.

As for the book, I finally started reading Dracula which came free with my Nook (the one I bought about very soon before B&N came out with the new touch screen version - grrr!)

71 posted on 07/07/2011 1:37:12 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! Tea Party extremism is a badge of honor.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: KarlInOhio
Flying cross country is uncomfortably like being drunk.

Usually not a problem until you ask a glass of water what it's like.

72 posted on 07/07/2011 1:41:24 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you think it's time to bury your weapons.....it's time to dig them up.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

“A Helmet for My Pillow” by Robert Leckie
This is one of the books that the HBO miniseries “The Pacific” was based on.

I also have recently read all of Dennis Lehane’s detective series of books:
“A Drink Before the War”
“Darkness Take My Hand”
“Sacred”
“Gone Baby Gone”
“Prayers for Rain”


73 posted on 07/07/2011 1:41:58 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

Just finished “Transfer of Power” and now reading “The Third Option” by Vince Flynn. Mitch Rapp is THE man!!


74 posted on 07/07/2011 1:42:10 PM PDT by Donkey Odious (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

I’m on page 90 of Stephen Coonts,

LIBERTY


75 posted on 07/07/2011 1:42:47 PM PDT by airdalechief
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pan_Yan

Restrepo is on Netflix


76 posted on 07/07/2011 1:44:24 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

ping for a later answer


77 posted on 07/07/2011 1:45:43 PM PDT by Wuli
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

I only get the time to read when I’m on business travel...it helps pass the time in airports. The best one I finished is “Unbroken”..a must read. Truman was absolutely right to use the bomb. anyone who comes wawy with any other conclusion after reading Louis Zamperini’s story is brain dead. What a book. I came away from that a changed person. I have no problems, nothing whatsoever to complain about, certainly not after reading Mr. Zamperini’s story.

I cannot wait for another Laura Hillenbrand book, easily my favorite author.

I’m now reading “The Land of the Painted Caves”, the last installment of the “Clan of the Cave Bear” series by Jean Auel,and the first in about six years. She is a very good researcher/writer and I’ve enjoyed these books immensely.


78 posted on 07/07/2011 1:46:33 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve

Bristol Palin’s book “Not afraid of life” right now, my daughter bought it and left it laying around so I picked it up and started it. My problem is once I start a book no matter what I always feel bad if I don’t keep plugging through and finish it.


79 posted on 07/07/2011 1:48:30 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MplsSteve
This Side of Paradise.
80 posted on 07/07/2011 1:51:38 PM PDT by firebrand (It's a scandal that we have not yet impeached Obama.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 201 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson