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What Are You Reading? - My Quarterly Survey
3/29/11 | MplsSteve

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?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bestsellers; bookclub; bookreview; books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; readinglist
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To: MplsSteve

My taste (or lack thereof) in literature is all over the map. I am currently reading “The Shadow of Your Smile” by Mary Higgins Clark (Thriller).

Recent reads have included:

“America by Heart” by Sarah Palin.

“Sky Coyote” by Kage Baker (Science Fiction)

“Mission of Honbor” by David G. Weber (SF)

“The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking.


161 posted on 03/30/2011 5:38:56 PM PDT by ixtl (You live and learn; or you don't live long.)
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To: urtax$@work

I loved “Goodbye to a River.” Having canoed (part of) the Brazos myself, it was kind of personal. Suggest you also read his “Hardscrabble; Reflections on a Piece of Land.”


162 posted on 03/30/2011 5:52:29 PM PDT by ixtl (You live and learn; or you don't live long.)
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To: ixtl

did, was also good.


163 posted on 03/31/2011 6:53:48 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The only kind of memorial is a Burning memorial !)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

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Thanks MplsSteve.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.
 

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164 posted on 04/02/2011 3:53:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: MplsSteve

Going Rogue


165 posted on 04/02/2011 3:55:05 PM PDT by kanawa (Obama - "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.")
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To: SunkenCiv

True Greed - Hope Lampert

Endless War - Ralph Peters

The Future of Freedom - Fareed Zakaria

The Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass - F. Douglass


166 posted on 04/02/2011 4:01:01 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

Just started “Fallen Man” by Tony Hillerman. Found it in my dad’s bookshelf and hadn’t read it yet.

Hillerman book always remind me of doing archaeology work in the SW.


167 posted on 04/02/2011 4:06:17 PM PDT by Betis70 (UConn!)
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To: Carley

Have you read Folsom’s Myth of the Robber Barons?


168 posted on 04/02/2011 4:11:11 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: MplsSteve; SunkenCiv
For the first time, I'm reading The Chronicles of Narnia. I'm currently in the 6th book, but before that, I read Percy Jackson and the Olympians. And before that, I read South Africa, and before that...The Celts...
169 posted on 04/02/2011 4:13:31 PM PDT by Monkey Face ("...By small and simple things are great things brought to pass...." Alma 37:6)
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To: MplsSteve

“The Inner Circle” by Brad Metzler

Then

“Autobiography of Mark Twain”


170 posted on 04/02/2011 4:15:35 PM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: Artemis Webb

I spent my youth reading every fiction book I could get my hands on from Dicken’s to William Gibson.

I only read non-fiction now.

Your post is silliness...or jealousy.


171 posted on 04/02/2011 4:17:08 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: MplsSteve
Atlas Shrugged. Again.

This time I'm listening to Scott Brick read it to me. Very enjoyable.

172 posted on 04/02/2011 4:17:35 PM PDT by brewcrew (Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. --John Wayne)
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To: MplsSteve; Antoninus

I just finished 2 books on Byzantine Rome written by one of our very own FReepers — Antoninus. They were targeted to the teen aged male market and written from a Catholic standpoint (without being preachy). I thoroughly enjoyed both books — especially since I did not study this period in history in school.

Book 1: Belisarius — The First Shall be Last. Circa, 500 AD.

Book 2: Belisarius — The Glory of Rome, Circa 540 AD.

Both books were excellent and kept me (a grandmother) enthralled for many hours, despite the disclaimer that they were written for young men. There is a great deal of military strategy and palace intrigue covered in these books which were taken in large part from the writings of the famous Roman historian, Procopius. Of course the hero’s early life is fiction, but the rest of the story really happened.

The author helps the reader keep everything straight by thoughtfully providing a glossary in the back of each book, compiling the most unfamiliar Roman words and a cast of characters in the 2nd book. He also provides an ancient map of the Mediterranean and all the countries surrounding it, circa 500, to help the reader put everything in context. Of course, all those countries are in the news today adding further immediency to the story.

I have 7 grandsons in 4 families spread across the country and intend to buy a set of these histories for each family. Book 3 is being written at this time. I can hardly wait to find out what will happen to Belisaurius next. I won’t spoil the anticipation by actually looking it up in an encyclopedia. I want to read it in Belzoni’s words. And my 4 granddaughters may enjoy the narratives as much as I did.

I give the Belisaurius saga 2 thumbs up! Look for Books 1 and 2 at Ark Publishers, or at Amazon.


173 posted on 04/02/2011 4:19:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: savagesusie

Try America. Count the number of strong, capable, thoughtful fathers on television or in movies.

They’re either fickle girlie-men or useful lunkheads - both the butt of jokes for capable teens and women.


174 posted on 04/02/2011 4:19:34 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sword of Shame: A Historical Mystery by The Medieval Murderers (Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden).


175 posted on 04/02/2011 4:25:11 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Monterrosa-24
I'm currently up to page 170 in BONHOEFFER: PASTOR, MARTYR, PROPHET, SPY by Eric Metaxas

I am also reading this book...but just started it....

176 posted on 04/02/2011 4:25:22 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: MplsSteve

I’m finishing “In Denial:Historians, Communism and Espionage” by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. This is a survey of the liberal historians trying to rewrite the history of the Soviet Union, it’s espionage against the United States, it’s crimes against humanity and the active collaboration of the CPUSA with the Soviet Union.

The liberal/Marxist historians have to do quite a contortionist act to try to reconcile their lurid anti-US propaganda with the revelations from the Soviet archives and the Venona cables.

What’s most galling of all is that these historians have never held real jobs, generally feed at the public trough, indoctrinate the young with falsehoods and are of negative value to civilization.


177 posted on 04/02/2011 4:31:17 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: SunkenCiv
Free Republic. No better reading anywhere, except (perhaps) in the Library of Unseen University...but that damned monkey ape won't let me in there.
178 posted on 04/02/2011 4:36:53 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: MplsSteve

Treasure Island by RLS


179 posted on 04/02/2011 4:44:32 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: MplsSteve

Currently reading Edge by Jeffery Deaver.

After that I will start reading Live Wire by Harlan Coben.


180 posted on 04/02/2011 4:49:19 PM PDT by TheMom (I wish mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.)
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