Posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:31 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read member of the cyber world. I like to find out what you're all reading.
Essentially, it can be anything. A timeless classic, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal, etc. In short, anything!
Please do not ruin this thread by posting something stupid like "I'm Reading Your Thread". It became really really unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "Pendergast!" by Lawrence J Larsen and Nancy J Hulston. Written in 1997, it chronicles the life as well as the rise and fall of Tom Pendergast. In the 1920's and 30's, he was the undisputed boss of Kansas City. Nothing moved or happened in that city without his approval. He was responsible for the rise of Harry S Truman as well.
Pendergast was a contradiction in many terms. he was a family man but also contracted syphilis from a prostitute. He looked out for the downtrodden by getting them jobs and food and then skimmed money off the side (on public works projects) for his own use.
And last but not least, he was a life-long Democrat as well!
All in all, this is a good book and one I'd recommend strongly.
Well, what are you reading now?!
The private life of Marie Antoinette, written by her lady in waiting, Madame Campan.
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Just started WEB Griffin’s Delta Force series. Won the books at a raffle. They didn’t have book one, so I’ve started on book 2.
Argentina.
Kidnapping.
Murder of America Diplomat.
“God in a Cup - The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee”
by Michaele Weissman
“The British Civil War - the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660”
by Trevor Royle
“EMPEROR - the Field of Swords”
by Conn Iggulden
“Are there any fans of Christian Fantasy on the thread?”
If you are talking John Bunyan and C. S. Lewis caliber, then yes.
When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques. (The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order)
Nullification BUMP!!!
Just finished it myself. Back to the Bible for a bit then on to some Mises. I'm updating my education. ;)
Prior to that Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata .
Next up is I Am a Cat by Soseki Natsume.
My wife and I bought several shelves of books at an auction. The owner had taught at US schools abroad and had quite a few books by Japanese authors.
“I got sucked into “a Game of Thrones” series by this Martin fellow. The books are thousand page tomes that I can’t put down.”
They are great, but I worry if he will ever finish the series.
If you enjoy these at all, be sure to read his stand alone novella, “The Hedge Knight”.
http://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Knight-George-R-Martin/dp/1932796061
Beautiful narrative about chivalric idealism and brute reality, and an occasion when the two intersect . . .
The “Game of Thrones” series is sort of an endless rummage sale of glittering and tantalizing and peculiar stuff.
“The Hedge Knight” is a perfect gem, focused and brilliant.
Jeeze, Steve....I’m reading the KJV because I’m afraid NOT to!
In between times, I read doctrine and theology. Nothing else seems to make me ponder life and all it seems to be.
Liberal Fascism, Dinesh D’Souza.
Close Combat, W.E.B. Griffin
Quicksilver was actually a difficult read because a lot of the language is 17th & early 18th Century archaic.
Cryptonomicon was incredible.
The second book of the Baroque Cycle “The Confusion” is something that I am only a few pages into so far.
This fellow writes with a sort of detail and descriptiveness that I can not associate with any other writer who comes to mind.
Highly recommended.
Didn’t Samson kill a big cat?
Macaulay’s History of England. Got a copy of the first U.S. edition as a gift.
Vegging out with some cheap novels — Rachel Morgan series, BLACK MAGIC SANCTION + Sookie Sackhouse (Trueblood) novels: DEFINITELY DEAD.
Starting next week I’ll get back into some serious reading. Plan to tackle INQUISITION: REIGN OF FEAR, by Toby Green.
I’m reading a cereal box. Right now, I think I kinda dig “riboflavin!”
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