Niven and Pournelle rule!
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?
Reading my uncles's book that finally got published. Hard since he had a bad stroke a few years ago. About the second attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and other perpetrated or planned attacks on the mainland. By Steve Horn.
WOOF
"The Queen's Bastard" by Robin Maxwell
ficiton about the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth and Robin Dudlely.
That's calld "Cell" right. Looks like a good read.
Niven and Pournelle rule!
I'm reading Footfall, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
I hope so - it ships to me on the 24th. I bought it for me for Christmas - LOL.
Im going to MIOTC in Ft. Huachuca in 24 hours ;)
I will be there for about 6 mos learing MI, and probably doing UAV training such as the raven, shadow, and predator.
Finished 'The Warlord' by Malcolm Bosse last week. Good book set in China in the 1920's. Great characters.
Currently reading 'Shanghai' by Christopher New. About 250 pages into it. First 200 pages were great but it's been downhill since.
OOOOO, that sounds good. I love reading books about that era:)
I'm currently reading one called "My Enemy the Queen" , fiction about Queen Elizabeth and the wife of Robert Dudlely.
Becky
You know, it takes the average reader about 70 hours to read the Bible through completely. I've often though that those who settle for reading through the Bible through in a year are missing out on a lot by reading only about 10 minutes a day, but I'm not doing much better now anyway.
I designed a reading plan for the Bible that emphasized certains parts of the Bible more than others, especially Psalms and the NT. I haven't used it for a while, but reading only 6 chapters a day and 12 one day a week (usually Sundays) I could read the Gospels at least 4 times a year, the Gospels almost 3 times a year, and everything else at least once a year.
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I think you have a valid point. I generally read through the scripture for the year and meditate on the specific areas. It is interesting the new things that comes from doing that.
Several years ago I decided to read straight through as fast as I could. I was looking for particular characteristics. I was amazed at what a different perspective and a firmer grasp of the history one can get from doing that. It is something I intend to do again soon.
I assume you heard the replica of Ft. Clatsop burned down this last year.
As always there are a number of different threads but the great bulk of the time is spent with Jaime and Cersei Lannister. Cersei is in full Lucretia Borgia mode...now that she has obtained power. At times she is as wily as Elizabeth I, at others she appears to completely absorbed in self-destruction. Martin does a great job with her. There are many characters who won't appear at all till the next book.
It's amazing how fast you can read through the Bible if you read at a normal pace. I had a Korean friend who said the first time he really read the Bible, he read it through in 9 days. He was off work for a week so started on the weekend before and finished the following weekend. It had never occurred to me that you could read that much in such a short period of time, but when I thought about it, it made a lot of sense.
I used to know people from a Bible school in Singapore and every year they read all of the Pentateuch (first 5 books of the Bible) in one sitting overnight on the beach. They would take turns reading aloud and by the time the sun came up they were finished. I think their purpose was partly to experience what it was like for the Israelites to hear the reading of the law all in one hearing.
We can easily be put to shame in our Bible reading. I knew a guy who had read the Bible through 6 times a year for many years. That seems amazing to me, but I guess if I watched about an hour less of TV a day and read instead, I could do the same.
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