Posted on 10/02/2009 8:21:19 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Just now starting “One Second After” by William Forstchen.
I ordered the book on 2 day delivery 3 weeks ago and am just now able to start it.
Previously Reading "Lush Life" by Richard Price. See my review on Facebook.
Also reading: "Everything You Need to Know About Brazilian Portuguese."
I just got through reading “One Second After”. Sad book. A Must read though.
I also finished David Baldacci’s “The Collectors”
At the moment I am reading “A Little Commonwealth: Family life in the Plymouth Colony” by John Demos
Great book. Met him once several years ago after a speech. My copy is signed to me.
I'd seen him lecture immediately prior to meeting and speaking with him. If you ever get the chance to see him speak, take it. He's fascinating.
He's done a lot to further the cause of conceal carry permitting in addition his other accomplishments.
Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
One Second After (basically near apocalyptic)
and
A Little Commonwealth; Family Life in the Pymouth Colony ... way way back at the start of the colonization of North America.
Reading or rereading?
The Road.
The Fountainhead.
How To Survive The End Of The World As We Know It.
page 128 of the sas survival guide, by john wiseman.
My local paper.
That's the only printed material I look at.
Just finished Dean Koontz Frankenstein and working on Stephen Coonts The Assassin
I loved The Deerslayer. It gets ridiculed a lot (Twain famously made fun of it.) But I didn’t care. Sure, it’s silly and implausible, but I love that time period, and found the book to be an awesome adventure.
Reading... after all the hype figured I’d check it out... read the “prequel” New Spring.. and actually found it needlessly long, slow moving and not all that good.
Figured I’d try Book 1.
By long I don’t mean too many pages... just very very little action for the amount of reading... it was as if the author was just trying to pad the book to hit a number of pages to be published.. the story could and should have been told with much more brevity.
The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson.
I just got a new Sony ebook reader and have a bunch of Cooper’s books loaded. I’m having a blast.
“Arguing With Idiots” by Glenn Beck
I'm also reading Zane Gray's The Call of the Canyon, something I would recommend only for those who have visited or would like to visit gorgeous Oak Creek Canyon and West Fork Canyon, between Flagstaff and Sedona, Arizona--something that I would definitely recommend.
I've also been reading some fascinating, obscure books, many in French and German, made available on GoogleBooks, books that would have very little appeal to most people, for example: Blaise Hory by Frédéric-Alexandre-Marie Jeanneret and James-Henri Bonhôte, about a 16th century Swiss poet; Biographie Neuchâteloise by the same writers; Archives du Chateau de la Barre by Alfred Richard; et al.
These particular books are of interest to very few people, but what is of great interest is the large number of books, many of them quite obscure, that previously were unavailable essentially everybody but are now at the fingertips of anyone with a computer, thanks to Google.
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