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?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The Myth of You & Me" by Leah Stewart (Fiction, light read)

"Guerrilla Marketing" - Jay Conrad Levinson (Planning marketing for our business for the upcoming year)

"The Non-Designer's Design Book" - Robin Williams (Upgrading some of our business-related pamphlets and lloking for layouts for ads we'll be taking out)

"The Moosewood Restaurant Kitchen Garden" - David Hirsch (Jonesin' for Spring already and planning my upcoming garden)

[Millee]

Oh good, I just got that. It's going to be the next one I start.

[RightWhale]

Reading in several topics that are linked, but probably interdisciplinary. Lots of PoliSci: Beard seems to be important for various reasons.

[day10]

Nothing. Waiting on my preordered copy of Stephen King's new book.

Yes, I know he's a clueless lib but I love his writing and books...... :-)

[EHC Southern Pride]

Just finished "My Sister's Keeper"

Now I'm onto a book that teaches you how to tie all sorts of knots. Good knowledge to have I figure.

[Skooz]

The sixth installment of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series, "The Fortune of War."

It is brilliant.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

"The Most of P.G. Wodehouse" (anthology)

"Gulliver's Travels" --Jonathan Swift

I Book of Samuel (KJV)

[squarebarb]

Campaign of the Century is interesting and well-written. I gained a lot from it.

I am on a Dickens binge. Am reading all of Dickens. Right now on Dombey and Son. Next, The Old Curiosity Shop.

Thanks for doing this thread.

[K-oneTexas]

What Are You Reading Now?

I normally read several (4-5) books at a time. I guess my mind likes the variation. Amazingly I can keep them straight too.

Recently (during the holidays) finished Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" and "The DaVinci Code", Zell Miller's "A National Party No More" and "A Deficit of Decency", Osbourne and Hutchinson's "The Price Of Government", and Phillip K. Howard's "The Death of Common Sense".

Currently reading Thomas P.M. Barnett's "The Pentagons New Map", Barry Goldwater's (with Jack Casserly) "Goldwater", on the sideboard to be started during the next week or so are Peter Schweizer's "Do As I Say ... Not as I Do", Levitt and Dunbar's "Freakonomics", Thomas P.M. Barnett's "Blueprint for Action", and Herman Cain's "They Think Your Stupid".

Some excellent books I read last year which I recommend to all: Mark Levin's "Men In Black", Ted Bell's "Hawke" and "Assassin" (sort of a new James Bond), Ian Caldwell's "Rule of Four" (see Comment #29), Boortz and Linder's "The FairTax Book".

I guess I did find Dan Brown's books good and that is why I read one immediately after the other. Luckily my daughter told me that "Angels & Demon" was the first in the series so I read it first, even though the "The Da Vinci Code" was what most were talking about. Both excellent. Maybe a third will come out.

Thanks for asking.

[squarebarb]

O'Brian is magical! I have read all of them and one of thse days will start over at the beginning.

[birbear]

"Guerrilla Marketing" - Jay Conrad Levinson (Planning marketing for our business for the upcoming year)

Levninson's a marketing guru. You might also want to check out his "Guerrilla Marketing Attack" -- a follow up to "Guerilla Marketing". He also has a couple of other "Guerrilla Marketing..." books...I think he has one for web marketing, too. If you're really interested in the business of marketing, check out anything (and everything) by Al Reis and Jack Trout. Very informative books.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the new leads. :)

[Grammy]

Just started 1776.

Just finished "Not a Good Day to Die: The untold Story of Operation Anaconda" by Sean Naylor. Excellent book that will tick you off. One of the soldiers in it goes to my church.

[Chickensoup]

Bump for later/

[danno3150]

"To the Last Man" by Jeff Shaara

Nice job showing how disastrous Wilson's "peace with honor" really was and how Pershing pulled a rabbit out of his hat to get the job done. Very timely and well told.

1776 is warming up in the bullpen. (It was a good Christmas)

[johnny7]

Double Whammy by Carl Hiaason.

[Richard Kimball]

Just finished a selection of Phillip Dick stories, "Minority Report", "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale", and a couple of others. Reading "Before you Quit your Job" and Treasure Island, now.

[P.O.E.]

Two of my Christmas gift books:

Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

and my "bathroom companion":

Weird Pennsylvania by Mark Sceurman, Mark Moran (the editors of Weird NJ mag and the "Weird US" TV show)

[Fierce Allegiance]

I just finished Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw. She was the female sword fishing boat captain in the movie Perfect Storm. She spent about 17 years doing that out of gloucester, where I was stationed as a Coastie for a summer.

The book is about a season of lobstering after she gave up the deep water fishing and moved back home to an island in Maine.

I liked it, but would I reccomend it? Not to just everyone, but if you are interested by fishing and other peoples relationships, yeah, it's ok.

[grey_whiskers]

The Salesman's Bible by John Lawhon.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

The Descent of the Dove: A Short History of the Holy Spirit in the Church by Charles Williams

The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams

Beer by Michael Jackson (no, not that M.J. !)

The Wallet of Kai Leung on gutenberg.org