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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Review
4/05/10 | MplsSteve

Posted on 04/05/2010 7:53:56 PM PDT by MplsSteve

Hello everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You reading Now?" thread.

I consider Freepers to be some of the more well-read people on the Internet and I'm always curious as to what you're all reading.

In short, it can be anything - a classic novel, a NY Times best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal...in short, anything.

Please do not defile this thread by posting something inane like "I'm reading this thread". It became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm about 65 pages into "War Like The Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta" by Russell S Bonds. So far, so good. I can't complain.

Well, what are you reading now?


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bestsellers; bibliophilia; booklist; books; literature; magazines
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To: CondiArmy

Wow...you must be a slow reader! ;^)

I’m back to Martin Gross’ “National Suicide.”

Find it, read the first chapter....then try not to get mad....I dare ya’.


61 posted on 04/05/2010 9:03:53 PM PDT by Loud Mime (initialpoints.net - - The Constitution as the center of politics)
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To: Pelham

Agreed. It was recommended by one of the IIT’s at the last Appleseed shoot I attended.


62 posted on 04/05/2010 9:05:44 PM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: MplsSteve

I am reading the Bible, reports, news articles, job ads, tea party updates and sites of interest.


63 posted on 04/05/2010 9:06:50 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MplsSteve

“Friday Night Lights”.

I received it as a gift because I’m a fan of the tv series. Hesitated over the book as I assumed it would be more like the movie which I didn’t like nearly as much as the tv version.

Book is very different - more of a documentary. Too much racial/sociology crap - seems dated, but it is 20 years old.


64 posted on 04/05/2010 9:07:16 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: MplsSteve
Now reading Courage and Consequence and am waiting for new thrillers by Daniel Silva, Brad Thor and Christopher Reich.
65 posted on 04/05/2010 9:08:30 PM PDT by Brasil ( Redistribution is not prosperity.)
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To: MplsSteve

In addition to Scripture . . .

Paola Harris’

CONNECTING THE DOTS . . . Making Sense of the UFO Phenomenon.

And after that one, her last one.

I don’t think the folks she interviews have it all figured out. I think they have been deluded by the enemy’s forces. However she covers a lot of territory and is a top flight interviewer.

Just read most of the novel GRAVITY CAN BE YOUR FRIEND (It can also get you killed)

A novel about police training in space.

Just finished Henry Wright’s

FEARS OVERSHADOWING YOUR LIFE—a very excellent book I’d buy for everyone, if I could.

There are some others but those are the ones I’m remembering off the top of my head.

by Remote Viewer Lyn Buchanan.


66 posted on 04/05/2010 9:08:53 PM PDT by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: warsaw44

Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll put it on my reading list.


67 posted on 04/05/2010 9:09:35 PM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: MplsSteve
"Walking the Bible" by Bruce Feiler.

Written in an engaging style. Fun and educational.

68 posted on 04/05/2010 9:09:47 PM PDT by what's up
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To: darkwing104

“Be A Man” by Fr. Larry Richards, a book on masculine spirituality. Not for the thin-skinned.


69 posted on 04/05/2010 9:13:39 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: EdReform

I don’t know what an IIT or an Appleseed shoot is, but they did recommend a good book.


70 posted on 04/05/2010 9:16:13 PM PDT by Pelham (Obamacare, the new Final Solution.)
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To: MplsSteve

I am reading Radical Son by David Horowitz. In the last year I have read Witness by Whitaker Chambers and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, recommended by similar thread that asked people to recommend the 10 Must Read Books.
Thank you for asking the question. I now have many new books to add to my Reading List. First up is Starve the Monkeys by Tom Baugh and Conflict of Vision by Thomas Sowell. I think I need a speed reading course!


71 posted on 04/05/2010 9:19:03 PM PDT by kindredspirit (The U.S. Contitution IS my ideology.)
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To: MplsSteve; CWW
I really enjoyed Son of Hamas. There was so much to learn from that book.

I am finishing up Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak on Kindle. I wish he were alive today to be writing about Obama. He writes about his life and experiences with the reporters and politicians he met during his life. Well worth the read.

Today I bought Karl Rove’s book from WalMart for about $16. The first several chapters were really good. He had a really difficult life growing up. I have a new appreciation for him. Looking forward to finishing it.

72 posted on 04/05/2010 9:20:13 PM PDT by AUsome Joy
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To: MplsSteve

Finished “Baseball’s Natural: the Story of Eddie Waitkus” and “I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous” by Harry Stein - well into “The Sellout” by Charles Gasparino, “Intellectuals and Society” by Thomas Sowell, and “Not With a Bang But a Whimper” by Theodore Dalrymple.....


73 posted on 04/05/2010 9:26:12 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: MplsSteve

Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith H. Beer


74 posted on 04/05/2010 9:39:55 PM PDT by onyx (Facts don't matter. Proof not required. Anything goes! Racial slurs, death threats.....)
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To: MplsSteve

“36 Yalta Boulevard,” by Olen Steinhauer.

I read his book, “Bridge of Sighs,” which is a tour de force, in my opinion, and plan to read everything he’s written.


75 posted on 04/05/2010 9:45:07 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished Great Cases in Psychotherapy (Wedding & Corsini).

Before that, John McPhee's Coming Into the Country, an excellent book on his travels in Alaska.

Just starting Up Country- Voices From the Midwestern Wilderness.

76 posted on 04/05/2010 9:57:01 PM PDT by elli1
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To: MplsSteve

1. - Patriots by James Wesley Rawles

2. - In The Gravest Extreme: The Role Of The Firearm In Personal Protection by Massad Ayoob

3. - The Winner by David Baldacci


77 posted on 04/05/2010 10:01:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." - Steinbeck)
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To: MplsSteve

I just finished “Pops”, Terry Teachout’s recent biography of Louis Armstrong.

It is a very nice book about an amazing man. I really feel like I understand him now.


78 posted on 04/05/2010 10:07:18 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: LexBaird

“Live Free or Die” by John Ringo (A SF novel)

Just finished this myself. I really enjoy Ringo. I’ve read the entire Alldenata series and was thrilled when he started a new series. Great read.


79 posted on 04/05/2010 10:14:47 PM PDT by Lurkus Maximus
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To: Iron Munro
1. “Lost in a Good Book” a sequel to the “Eyre Affair” by British author Jasper Fforde. (Literary mysteries)

2. Sarah Palin’s autobiography.

3. Cycle World magazine (Motorcycles)

4. Velo-News (Bicycles)

Just finished: “Attention All Shipping,” a humorous and informative semi-travelogue of modern Great Britain.

Recently: “My Grandfather's Son” by Justice Clarence Thomas. Great book as said above. Rips Joe Biden in the most effective way . . . telling the truth about the low-life SOB.

Oldplayer

80 posted on 04/05/2010 10:15:38 PM PDT by oldplayer
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