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What Are You Reading Now?
1/11/06 | Me

Posted on 01/11/2006 12:04:15 PM PST by MplsSteve

I'm gonna start doing this thread on a quarterly basis.

The last time I did it, I got some very interesting answers from Freepers.

What are you reading? It can be anything. A classic. A technical journal. A trashy pulp novel. Soldier of Fortune magazine. Anything.

I'll start. I'm reading: "The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's race for Governor of California and the birth of media politics".

So far, it's not a bad read. But what did you expect? I'm a Pol Sci major.

Well, what are you reading?


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: books; literature
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To: MplsSteve
Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia; George Washington and the Virginia Back Country; 1776
121 posted on 01/12/2006 7:17:31 AM PST by Capriole (I don't have any problems that can't be solved by more chocolate or more ammunition.)
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To: Millee
A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin

Me too...about 2/3 the way through. It's an odd one for the series, you can certainly tell it's only half the entire book. I can't decide whether I like his method of splitting the monster opus he created or not yet. Probably won't know until I get through the next book.

122 posted on 01/12/2006 7:23:26 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I just started it (about 100 pages in) so I don't have much to go on yet. I wish I hadn't gotten so involved in a series that isn't complete yet. I hate waiting for the next book!


123 posted on 01/12/2006 7:27:50 AM PST by Millee (Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.)
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To: MplsSteve

The Prey
by Allison Brennan

It's absolutely chilling!


124 posted on 01/12/2006 7:37:46 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: MplsSteve

"The Imitation of Christ"...

and a purchase and sale agreement on a piece of real estate in North Carolina


125 posted on 01/12/2006 7:44:54 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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To: MplsSteve

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide

2006 ACH Rules: A Complete Guide to Rules and Regulations Governing the ACH Network.

On the throne, Maxim.


126 posted on 01/12/2006 7:55:55 AM PST by BJClinton (Hook 'em!)
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To: MplsSteve

"The Machine Crusades" by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson.

I've just finished "The Butlerian Jihad" by the same authors.


127 posted on 01/12/2006 7:56:44 AM PST by sauropod ("Here Lies Joe Biden, Buried Under His Own Words.")
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To: SunkenCiv
I'm reading David McCullough's, 1776. I'm really enjoying, but I don't have much time to read right now.
128 posted on 01/12/2006 7:57:02 AM PST by Eva
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To: zeugma

Weird? No, not at all.

You have diverse interests. Nothing wrong with that.


129 posted on 01/12/2006 8:00:20 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Physicist; MplsSteve

Dear Lord above, someone took a picture of my study!

Let's see . . . what's in the bookbag right now? I'm working on a biography of Nell Gwyn (one of Charles II's mistresses), "The Well of Lost Plots" (Jasper Fforde is highly recommended for us bibliophiles), and Dick Morris's "Off With Their Heads!".


130 posted on 01/12/2006 8:09:51 AM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: MplsSteve
Just finished The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - by Sam Harris

Working on The Logic of American Politics by Samuel Kernell, Gary C. Jacobson

And I keep handy for short reads, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter

131 posted on 01/12/2006 8:56:42 AM PST by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: SunkenCiv

I can't remember off the top of my head....a co-worker of mine has it checked out of the Library. As soon as she's through with it, I'll ping you.


132 posted on 01/12/2006 9:08:37 AM PST by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
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To: MplsSteve

John Adams...by McCullough...great
The 12 Caesars..by Seurtorius...fascinating, but weird.
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell..by S. Clarke...excellent writing.
The Greek City States...by ???


133 posted on 01/12/2006 9:24:16 AM PST by spyone
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To: HOTTIEBOY

What a beautiful pooch!!


134 posted on 01/12/2006 9:37:04 AM PST by libertylass
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To: libertylass

Shhhhh!

He doesn't know he's a dog. He thinks he's a person and we walk funny. He's a good ole boy, I tell you what.


135 posted on 01/12/2006 9:44:15 AM PST by HOTTIEBOY (I know HTML. Just too darn lazy to type it.)
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To: SunkenCiv
I corresponded with Zannger for awhile after reading his "The Flood From Heaven." Very interesting and seemingly nice young man.

Last I heard of him he was fighting the establishment over the Troy excavations. Kind of reinforced my views that the early Middle East and southern Europe was not a very nice place.

136 posted on 01/12/2006 10:20:35 AM PST by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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To: MplsSteve
OOO Fun thread!!

I am reading "Post Captain" by Patrick O'Brian

and I will also start reading "For Love of Mother-Not" by Alan Dean Foster when it comes in from Amazon.

I have just finished reading TO my daughter "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander.

I am slowly making my third pass through the Aubreiad by O'Brian. I ADORE those books.

137 posted on 01/12/2006 10:32:14 AM PST by Alkhin (He thinks I need keeping in order - Peregrin Took, FOTR)
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To: WHATNEXT?
I reread the L & C Journals every 3 or 4 years.

I used to but it's been a while since my last reading. I'd love to find (or gain access to) some of the other L & C scholars like Reuben Thwaites' "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," the Coues edition of Biddle, etc. I'd also dearly love to know more about some Expedition members like John Ordway and especially George Drewyer (Drouillard?) 'Drewer' was ultimate the Mountain Man archetype. But it was John Colter who stayed in the mountains and discovered (for Europeans) Colter's Hell -- Yellowstone.

138 posted on 01/12/2006 10:39:18 AM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: alwaysconservative

I'm currently reading Chricton's "State of Fear." Very enjoyable and informative book.


139 posted on 01/12/2006 10:52:05 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: colorcountry
Barnard DeVoto....a kindred soul. Wasn't he an outsider, born in Mormon Country?

Definitely. DeVoto ("Across the Wide Missouri," "Course of Empire," "The Year of Decision: 1846," etc.) was born in Ogden, UT in 1897. His mother was Mormon and his father was described as "weakly Catholic" by Bill Croke [The Weekly Standard, August 16, 1999]. Croke writes that their "...theological squabbles left the boy a confirmed agnostic from a young age." He fled to Harvard where he received a B.A. in English in 1920.

He never lost his love of the West and is the one recent Western historian I can still stand to read. As Croke puts it: "...since he died, the academic study of history has become entirely the province of those whom the critic Harold Bloom once labeled 'the resentniks.' The topics of multicultural grievance that purchase tenure for assistant history professors these days, the citationless assertions that pass for historical scholarship, the inversion of heroism into the great sin of history, the awful modern academic writing: DeVoto would have recognized very little of it -- especially the writing."

If you haven't already read it I think you might be especially interested in "Year of Decision." That's another book I need to re-read.

140 posted on 01/12/2006 11:01:24 AM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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