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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey
7/12/10

Posted on 07/12/2010 10:39:11 AM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi, everyone!

It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read groups currently on the Internet. Each quart, I like to find out what everyone is reading.

It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY Times best-seller, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!

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

I'll start. I'm reading a historical biography called "John L Lewis: Labor Leader" by Robert Zieger. I have found it to be a real even-handed look at one of the major figures of the American labor movement during the early to mid 20th Century. The author goes as far to state that some of the problems with today's current labor unions can be traced to John L Lewis's leadership of the UMW.

Well, what are YOU reading?


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To: MplsSteve
Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West, by Stephen Ambrose

Life on the Mississippi, by Mark Twain

61 posted on 07/12/2010 11:01:41 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: MplsSteve

A History of Broadcasting in the United States: Volume 2: The Golden Web
By Erik Barnouw

http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+golden+web+erik+barnouw&source=bl&ots=UD4Tk4vKXa&sig=Xyr1il3nPND8R_XnDTfo3Kg6NUw&hl=en&ei=A1c7TJGdEML38AbarMWnBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false


62 posted on 07/12/2010 11:01:58 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Explodo
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

I thought it was great. Confirmed a bunch of stuff I already suspected to be true and opened my eyes to some new things as well.

63 posted on 07/12/2010 11:02:17 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: MplsSteve
In honor of Paul the Psychic Octopus I downloaded the Kindle version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and started reading it last week.
64 posted on 07/12/2010 11:02:55 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: MplsSteve
On my third Matthew Shardlake mystery, Sovereign, by C.J. Sansom - great summer reads about a hunchback lawyer in Tudor England who solves mysteries and struggles with the changing theologies of the time.
65 posted on 07/12/2010 11:03:19 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: MplsSteve

Feser: The Last Superstition
Chesterton: Thomas Aquinas the Dumb Ox
Kripke: Naming and Necessity


66 posted on 07/12/2010 11:04:17 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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To: MplsSteve
Reading: Bram Stokers' Dracula

Just finished listening:

David Benioff City of Thieves
Jack Higgins East of Desolation

Next up:

David Baldacci Deliver us from evil

67 posted on 07/12/2010 11:05:39 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (When in the course of human events...)
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To: MplsSteve
Still fighting through Blacklisted by History, with the Sookie Stackhouse novels for relaxation.
68 posted on 07/12/2010 11:06:48 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: MplsSteve

I love this thread and look forward to it- but it always leaves me wondering...where are all the stupid, incurious, illiterate and uneducated conservatives? ;)


69 posted on 07/12/2010 11:09:02 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: MplsSteve

George Washington, The indispensible Man


70 posted on 07/12/2010 11:09:31 AM PDT by zboa
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To: GOP_Raider
I now have 103 books on my wish list at Amazon

I use my Amazon wishlists to keep track of what I need from the library. Everything I want to read is on the Private list. If I can't find it at the library, and I think it deserves shelf space, I move it to the Public list.

71 posted on 07/12/2010 11:09:31 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: MplsSteve

CRO-MAGNON: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans, by Brian Fagan


72 posted on 07/12/2010 11:09:31 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: MplsSteve

1776 - David McCullough (very good)


73 posted on 07/12/2010 11:10:30 AM PDT by APatientMan
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To: MplsSteve

The Soulforge - Weis

The Shadow Rising - Jordan


74 posted on 07/12/2010 11:12:23 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: geologist

I am thoroughly enjoying it. However it is scary to think of because almost everything happening in the book up till now (about 1/2 way through) has already happened in real life.


75 posted on 07/12/2010 11:15:14 AM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: MplsSteve
Tempest at Dawn
by James Best
76 posted on 07/12/2010 11:15:19 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (Reconciliation will happen in November.)
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To: MplsSteve

I read several books at once:

Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
Vince Flynn, Memorial Day
Donald Miller, Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation

Waiting in the wings:

Matthew Algeo, Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

David Cloud and Greg Jaffe, Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army

Dennis Prager, Happiness is a Serious Problem

Stieg Larrson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Several light reading novels that catch my fancy on a given day.


77 posted on 07/12/2010 11:15:23 AM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: GoCards

I enjoyed it, but the long speech at the end was a chore for me to get through...


78 posted on 07/12/2010 11:15:23 AM PDT by coloradomomba (BO stinks!)
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To: NeoCaveman
“Finished “Overton Window” by Glenn Beck”

Just finished it myself. Just a couple of flaws, but overall a great read. He is a pretty talented novelist.

79 posted on 07/12/2010 11:16:19 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: HamiltonJay

Reading: Jesus Manifesto by Frank Viola


80 posted on 07/12/2010 11:16:25 AM PDT by carton253 (Ask me about The Stainless Banner - a free e-zine dedicated to the armies of the Confederacy.)
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