What Are You Reading Now?

1/11/06 | Me

[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?

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

All Quiet On The Western Front

-by Erich Maria Remarque

-THE DARK TOWER VI: The Wolves of the Calla

-by Stephen King

Also, the NY State's DMV driver's manual sporadically.

I might pick up the Winter edition of City Journal at my local library sometime next week, if they have it.

[Forest Keeper]

Compartmentalized by theme, I am reading: ...

Thanks for the ping, Gamecock! These look pretty good.

[ut1992]

I've read this one as well.

I found myself having to write down the Russian names(w/ranks and armies they lead) on a piece of paper in order to keep everyone straight. For some reason I can keep the German names straight, but Russian ones keep me on my toes....I think it all of the "y's & z's"... ;)

On a side note, it is good to hear from a fellow PoliSci major. I was a PoliSci/Econ double-major for undergrad....and then MBA.

[MikefromOhio]

Rommel's War in Africa by Wolf Heckmann

[DLfromthedesert]

I read that last November... needs to be required reading for EVERY Freeper.. now reading Tammy Bruce's book: "The New American Revolution"..

Books I want to get.. Kate O'Beirne's book about the women who ruined our country; JD Hayworth's book about stopping illegal immigration, and Ann Rice's book about Christ (got my son that one for Christmas)

[DLfromthedesert]

Goldberg's book was a fun read.

[lawnguy]

Bumping for current entries.

[firebrand]

Hostile Waters, about cowboy nuclear submarine commanders during the Cold War who almost started the big one.

[wildehunt]

The Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Thre generations of Chinese women in in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century.

The author, born in 1952, left China in 1978 and her discovery
of the culture of freedom in Great Britain, is extraordinary. Her mother, a revolutionary who married one of Mao's soldiers; and her grandmother, concubine to a warlord are a microcosm of the horror and heartbreak of the past hundred years in that country.

It's surely not a speed read, but it was an important period of history and the narrative is fascinating.