Posted on 09/27/2007 8:09:20 AM PDT by MplsSteve
It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread!
It can be anything...a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel...in short, anything!
DO NOT answer by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It stopped being funny a long time ago.
Here's what I'm reading. I'm just about finished with "Street Without Joy" by Bernard Fall. It's about France's war in Vietnam from 1946-1954. Very interesting and tragic.
So, tell me. What are you reading now?
Myself, I am now reading "Double Tap" by Steve Martini.
Okay, I hate Bored Games too. I avoid them at all costs and make up any excuse to get out of playing. Saying you have a contagious skin disease works very well. Impetigo is a good one because it just "sounds" nasty!
My son has this version of Monopoly! LOL
I’m reading Orlando Fusioso, a several hundred year old tale with Merlin and Morgana and others but with European Knights driving the muslims out of Europe.
I used to buy Chunklet while in college in the mid 90s (back before they even had a web site). It was a pretty hysterical zine.
BTW, there's actually 66 ways to be annoying at Monopoly - I edited out the unfunny ones.
Nikon D80 by David D. Busch. It’s a how to book.
In two weeks I have read chapter one three times and still can’t remember most of it. Old Age ADD...
Helen Vendler, The Art Of Shakespeare's Sonnets
"She was unrelentingly analytical, ready to dissect any idea to its fundamentals, and had no interest in small talk. Yet despite this apparent ferocity, I noticed an openness in the way she approached conversation. She seemed ready to consider any idea from any person, and engage it strictly on the merits."Reading this book has given me tremendous respect for Alan Greenspan.
The Age of Turbulence, pp. 40-41. "She was a wholly original thinkier, sharply analytical, strong-willed, highly principled, and very insistent on rationality as the highest value. In that regard, our values were congruent--"
Ibid., p. 51. "It did not go without notice that Ayn Rand stood beside me as I took the oath of office in the presence of President Ford in the Oval Office. Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life."
Ibid., p. 52.
(And his description of Ayn Rand could be a description of my wife--who is also extremely intelligent.)
What a shame that such a description cannot honestly be applied to American academic leaders, university professors, and journalists. The American Left, in its misguided commitment to "higher values", which are not higher values at all, has denounced such values as these, much to its discredit.
“What are you reading now?”
COOKBOOKS! In 1956, my grandfather told me the most important things in life were: “Something good to eat, and a warm place to sleep.” Considering the recent revolting state of affairs in this country, I’ve decided he was something of a genius.
“The Death of the Grown-Up”, by Diana West.
“World War Z”, zombie book
I pretend to understand the physics discussed.
Just finished reading The Book of Skulls, by Robert Silverberg. Great book. Where’s the movie?
Is it her position that pure capitalism is the ideal form of human society that you disagree with or her lack of faith in a higher power?
The Ionian Mission (Patrick O’Brien)
I agree with that. I alway thought it idiotic to destroy or get rid of something you bought after the “artist” comes out. What’s the point? They already have your money. But, like you, I refuse to buy any more of their stuff. Some in my list - not restricted to books - are Stephen King, Michael Jackson (don’t have any of his work but after he purchased the Beatles copyrights, I decided not to buy another Beatles product until he is rid of it), Grishim, K. D. Lang, and too many actors and actresses to list.
I don’t have the time I would like to read, but most of my reading now is the Bible — specifically the New Living translation. Other books I’ve either completed or am working on include ones on Game Theory and interpersonal communication. I’d like to read more classics I’ve missed but that takes a time investment I don’t currently have.
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I read this a couple months back. It took me some time to get through it because - at least for me - it took time to digest/understand him. I enjoyed the book.
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