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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
  1. The Bible - Readings from Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms each evening
  2. True Christianity by Johann Arndt - Christian apologetics from an early Luthern point of view. Published around the year 1600. Free download at link. Reading one chapter each evening.
  3. Honor of the Clan by John Ringo - Military Science Fiction

201 posted on 04/02/2011 8:22:43 PM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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To: MplsSteve

’ P.O.W., a soldiers story of his ten escapes from Nazi prison camps ‘ by Douglas Collins.
Just finished it tonight. A good read.

Looks like ‘ Bridge across the sky ‘ by Richard Collier is next. Anyone read this?

Was really bummed out to see I missed the annual Boston Public Library book sale today. They sell thousands of books for pennies.


202 posted on 04/02/2011 8:36:12 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: Logic n' Reason

Essential Lewis & Clark is outstanding.


203 posted on 04/02/2011 8:36:42 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: NittanyLion

Outliers was interesting and eye opening. What did you think of Frankl’s book?


204 posted on 04/02/2011 8:41:29 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Artemis Webb
Just my two cents Fiction v non-fiction. I'll take non-fiction any day of the week. History is my passion and its a heck of a lot more interesting than a work of fiction.
205 posted on 04/02/2011 8:47:02 PM PDT by warsaw44
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To: MplsSteve

All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. Quite the eye-opener.


206 posted on 04/02/2011 9:29:57 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will work for chocolate)
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To: 1010RD

Can’t lift the weight of fiction huh?
It’s okay. Some can’t.


207 posted on 04/02/2011 9:31:09 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (What, if not a bagel and coffee, confirms the existence of a just and loving God?)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Indeed it is! Thanks for the ping!


208 posted on 04/02/2011 9:45:14 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: MplsSteve

Propaganda by Bernays


209 posted on 04/02/2011 9:47:34 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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To: MplsSteve

Propaganda by Bernays


210 posted on 04/02/2011 9:47:44 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin (A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
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To: MplsSteve

I am reading two sets of lovely documents. The proposed California Regulations for Suction Dredge Mining and associated Draft Environmental Impact Report and the new proposed Planning Rule for the U.S. Forest Service and Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Both, together are about 9 inches thick. Oh joy, oh rapture.


211 posted on 04/02/2011 10:13:21 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: MplsSteve; SunkenCiv; All

I recently finished reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I am half way through Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Currently browsing through The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians, by Charles Rollin (Translated from the French), Vol. 4, probably printed in London in 1795, and my edition printed in NY around 1843.

Next, I plan to read Atlas of Ancient Egypt by John Baines and Jaromir Malek, and Great Military Battles, Edited by Cyril Falls (before I give it to my Special Forces son for his birthday in May), both bought today at a Library fund raiser.


212 posted on 04/02/2011 10:15:40 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: MplsSteve

I’m reading A STORM OF SWORDS (Book #3 of the “Fire & Ice” series). Heard Book #1 will be on TV shortly.


213 posted on 04/02/2011 10:43:09 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MplsSteve

Dialogues of the Dead by Reginald Hill


214 posted on 04/02/2011 11:04:01 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: MplsSteve

Just started Liberal Fascism.


215 posted on 04/03/2011 12:49:11 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: Retired Greyhound

Just finished Dead or Alive.

Quite topical eh?

I’m reading West of Here and Lincoln Unmasked


216 posted on 04/03/2011 12:54:26 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: moehoward

The Circle series by Ted Dekker. On the 3rd of 4 books.


217 posted on 04/03/2011 12:55:34 AM PDT by wolfman
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To: MplsSteve

“Six Days of War” by Michael Oren. About the 1967 Israeli-Arab War.


218 posted on 04/03/2011 3:54:50 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: MplsSteve
Recently finished American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies, by Michael W. Kauffman. The assassination was a carefully planned conspiracy, not a sudden impulse by a crazed actor as most people think of it. A very thorough achievement by Kauffman.
219 posted on 04/03/2011 7:47:53 AM PDT by firebrand (Impeach Obama.)
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To: Monkey Face

“The Celts” — which one?


220 posted on 04/03/2011 8:00:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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