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?
Ayn was a great thinker, and her ideals were great, the concept of Atlas Shrugged was also brilliant.
But it should’ve been 400 pages shorter!
Just finished Sentimental Education by Flaubert. I had thought Madame Bovary was good but Sentimental Education may have it beat. Can’t put my finger on it but Flaubert has got it going on.
“No Country For Old Men” Cormac McCarthy
In high school we read BNW and Nineteen Eighty-Four together for comparison. There was another I forget the title of by Skinner. BNW was disliked then, in the 50s, but now polls as favored—an historic shift in attitude by the youth.
When you buy a hotel, let other players know that after some heated number crunching, you plan to rent out the rooms by the hour.
“How come it took me 51 years to discover this great book?”
Follow up with Anthem
You are reading some great books!
The Great Divorce is awesome. My wife saw me reading it and got a little worried until I explained it though.
Acts in the NIV Bible, sort of speaks for itself as to why it’s great.
And Starship Troopers. I read it when I was a teenager and I’ll never lose the feel of the first scenes of that book when he is in full body armor and a jet pack, flying above an alien city and using personal size nuclear weapons against the enemy. Awesome stuff.
Just finished John Stossel’s new book, “Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity”.
Currently reading the Book of John in my men’s Bible study group and am in the latter chapters of Exodus in my private study.
Just finished the new Einstein biography, “Einstein: His Life and Universe” by Walter Issacson.
I’m “reading” Breakfast at Tiffany’s, soon as I find the address of the person who has it checked out. Now, where is my popcorn and grape juice?
Lol. I'll be sure to try that excuse next time.
"Electric Avenue" by Eddie Grant was the an awesome (techno) song back in the 80s. It was played at school dances. I still love this song.
What is it about?
I just heard her interviewed by Janet Parschell yesterday. Very powerful and emotional...not to mention she’s “been there done that” with respect to being on the receiving end of radical Islam.
If you haven't already seen it, you may be interested in this article in the current Reader's Digest:
Nice, Martin...very nice!
Which one was your favorite?
LOL!
Jennifer Aniston is pulling her life back together again after feeling down in the dumps after her split from insipid model/wannabe actor Paul Sculfor. She feels really great about herself after her recent Hawaiian vacation with Courtney Cox and David Arquette and their kid Coco. The press published several photographs of her wearing a skimpy bikini and everybody raved about her toned bod. That has boosted her confidence so much so that she has eschewed a wardrobe of dreary dark colors for one featuring a few bright pieces.
Britney Spears is suffering from an eating disorder that has her one day starving herself with just a few hundred calories to the next day binging like crazy, taking Stacker 2 pills, and chugging Red Bull and coffee all the time. Somebody who knows her says she pukes when she overeats which is usually during times of stress. One of her favorite feeding frenzy spots is Nyla’s Burger Basket located near her home in Kentwood, Louisiana. Some busybody there says that she orders a double fried chicken special that is “made for her” along with a malted milk shake and an order of onion rings and she dunks the onion rings into the shake.
Speaking of dining the Food section has a delicious looking recipe from Guastavino’s of New York City for Maple Braised Beef Short Ribs. I’d love to try that some blustery winter weekend. Only thing is it calls for veal stock and I have no idea how to make that and they offer no recipe for it. It just says 1/2 gallon veal stock.
The most alarming item in this issue appears in “A Sister For Suri” wherein we are informed that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes want to have another baby girl and then the shocker - Where’s the sonogram machine??? Back in November 2005 Tom Cruise told Baba Wawa that he bought a sonogram machine to look at Suri in the womb but after she came out and he could see her without the machine he hauled off and donated it to a Los Angeles area hospital. OMG! This ought to teach him to hang on to things.
Then there are some predictions and warnings about what we will all be wearing in 2008 according to the New York Fashion Week. Orange, black & white, ankle socks, side buns (that’s a hairdo), white eyeliner, apricot lipstick.
As usual there is a pretty hard crossword which I struggle with. I don’t even know the first 1 Across: Actor and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s fiance, who starred in Jarhead and Flightplan (14 letters).
I have not read the Man Candy section yet because I’m saving it for Friday night after work. But I see this week it is 5 Reasons Why We Love Scott Elrod.
On the SF/Fantasy front I'm in the middle of John Ringo's Council Wars series, beginning with There Will Be Dragons, all available free through Baen's e-library. I bought my copies though, as I enjoyed the heck out of them. I'm also reading his Into the Looking Glass, which is fun. I picked up Auralia's Colors, a fantasy by Jeffrey Overstreet, last week, but have only gotten through the first chapter. So far it's very much an "I've always wanted to write a fantasy novel, Tolkein is tEh b0s$" novel, if you know what I mean. It's my current car book, but I keep finding myself rereading John Scalzi's Old Man's War (my last car book) instead. It's that good.
As far as non-fiction goes, I'm still wading through Theology and Sanity, by Frank Sheed, each night before bed. My husband's after me to read Evelyn Waugh's biography of St. Edmund Campion, so that will probably be next on my list.
Do I spend too much time reading, you think? :-D
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