Posted on 05/28/2016 6:09:42 AM PDT by vis a vis
Good bad or ugly----what are FReepers reading?
I always get a lot of good ideas from these threads.
Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World , George Gilder
Quantum Theory of Solids , Charles Kittel
Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America , Stephen F. Knott
Ringworld, Larry Niven (Read in high school so an old favorite! Why has this never made into a movie?)
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, William N. Goetzman
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left It' a little dated. It's Roger Scruton's re-issue of a book he wrote in the 1980s about thinkers who had their heyday in the '60s and '70s and who might have started writing decades before that. It's also very polemical, as you'd expect with a title like that. But it's a pretty good introduction to some important 20th century intellectual debates.
That’s how I felt about “Gone with the Wind.” I loved the film but didn’t care for the book and never finished it.
“The Disuniting of America”-—Arthur M. Schlesinger,Jr.
Written in 1991 and he NAILS what is going on today.
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Your vanity post......and I'm wearing shorts, not khakis.......
The Natural Philosophers of the High Middle Ages, who were Catholic Priests such as Bacon and Copernicus; were the first Scientists since the Greeks of Antiquity.
Just started "David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who Believed" by Gary Wilkerson.
I have very few heroes, but David Wilkerson is one. The book so far is quite good.
by Charles H. McIlwain
"Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern explores the very roots of liberty by examining the development of modern constitutionalism from its ancient and medieval origins. Derived from a series of lectures delivered by Charles Howard McIlwain at Cornell University in the 1938–39 academic year,..."
This book should be required reading, annually, for all students, grades 7-16
I just finished that. It was really good!
“West of Eden” by Jean Stein.
Rereading Tim Blanning's Pursuit of Glory.
Just starting Blanning's Frederick The Great.
Just finished Yitzhak Ared's Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka.
I love the movie (Gone with the Wind) but also loved the book. I devoured it in high school, and then re-read it many times since, quite awhile back though. I’ve been thinking of doing it again. I found an old beat up copy at a thrift store, so its sitting there on my shelf. I wonder if I’ll still love it?
One of the things that interested me was that lots of Pelecanos’ stories take place in the near past, and there appears to be a lot of detail as to what Washington was like just after WWII, in the ‘seventies, etc.
They might be a little ‘gritty’ for me - I usually like the kinds of mysteries that Martha Grimes, or Jane Langton have written - but being a native, the DC angle interests me. A lot of them are available for Kindle, now - which is great to carry around and read at those times when you’d otherwise just be ‘waiting’.
-JT
$2.00 (two bucks) each! I told her to grab 'em all for that price, and I would make a nice donation the next time was in the library...
Finally have the entire Honor Bound series, and -- at last -- am re-reading them in correct order...
Love W.E.B.G's humor! (Did you know he wrote several MASH episodes?)
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, by Daniel J. Levitin
Maybe I should take another look at the book. I once read a mystery novel in college and loved it. When I later picked it up again, I didn’t like it much. The reverse has also happened.
Novels of Margery Sharp, currently Cluny Brown written in 1944.
Holy Living, Holy Dying by Jeremy Taylor
William Randolph by Russell Kirk
Bible currently in Ecclesiastes.
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove. Alt-history about the 2nd war between the states around 1885 after the confederacy had won the 1st war.
I’m re-reading The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher. One of my favorites!
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