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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey of Freeper Reading Habits
9/29/08 | MplsSteve

Posted on 09/29/2008 7:19:37 AM PDT by MplsSteve

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To: MplsSteve

The Last Lion - biography of Winston Churchill. Also, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades).


101 posted on 09/29/2008 8:22:22 AM PDT by Just Another Hick
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To: MplsSteve

Just finished: America Alone - Mark Steyn
Just started: The Whole Shebang - Timothy Ferris


102 posted on 09/29/2008 8:22:40 AM PDT by CharonofStyx
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To: MplsSteve

Darkness and Dawn by
George Allan England


103 posted on 09/29/2008 8:23:01 AM PDT by mirkwood (Palin has my vote!)
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To: MplsSteve
Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
104 posted on 09/29/2008 8:23:08 AM PDT by sarajeen
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To: camle
re-reading the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’brien.

I'm almost finished reading it for the first time. I hate to see it end, so I am taking it s-l-o-w-l-y.

105 posted on 09/29/2008 8:24:27 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: MplsSteve

Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution By Morton White


106 posted on 09/29/2008 8:24:42 AM PDT by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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To: MplsSteve

The American Front - Harry Turtledove.


107 posted on 09/29/2008 8:24:45 AM PDT by RobRoy (This is comical)
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Morris (Author)

Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Paperback)
by John R. Talbott (Author)

Your worst nightmare is about to come true!-gris


108 posted on 09/29/2008 8:24:56 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: MplsSteve

Some great sci-fi can be found here: http://www.freesfonline.de/


109 posted on 09/29/2008 8:25:35 AM PDT by mirkwood (Palin has my vote!)
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To: Just Another Hick
The Last Lion - biography of Winston Churchill.

Excellent books. Too bad Manchester died before publishing the last installment.

110 posted on 09/29/2008 8:25:55 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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A History of the English Speaking Peoples from 1900 by Andrew Roberts.

I need a little bit of good news and optimism these days.


111 posted on 09/29/2008 8:27:29 AM PDT by rightthinkingwoman
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To: MplsSteve

A Patriot’s History of the United States
http://www.amazon.com/Patriots-History-United-States-Columbuss/dp/1595230327/

and re-reading
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
http://www.amazon.com/Common-Sense-Thomas-Paine/dp/0977798208/

which the House and Senate should be required to read along with the Constitution before voting on this bill.


112 posted on 09/29/2008 8:27:41 AM PDT by anonsquared
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Plum Island / Nelson DeMille. - Very entertaining murder mystery. I want to read more by the author

The rising tide : a novel of World War II / Jeff Shaara.- fictional depiction of the North Africa campaign but a good read. Kinda dry.

The avengers / Rich Cohen.- non-fiction about Jewish partisans in WW2.


113 posted on 09/29/2008 8:29:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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‘Treason’s Harbour’ by Patrick O’Brien. It’s superb.

Yes, it is.

114 posted on 09/29/2008 8:30:51 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Morris (Author)

Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics (Paperback)
by John R. Talbott (Author)

Your worst nightmare is about to come true!-gris


115 posted on 09/29/2008 8:30:59 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: MplsSteve

Romanov Bride
Remembering Hypatia

Starting: World Without End


116 posted on 09/29/2008 8:31:40 AM PDT by imfrmdixie
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Just finished, "Empire of Honour: The Art of Government in the Roman World" and "Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity" both by J E Lendon.

Highly recommended if you are interested in how and why the Roman Empire and ancient Greek societies and armies functioned, but as they were understood to function by the Greeks and Romans themselves, rather than through the prism of modern theories of society or the state.

Just started re-reading Heiddegger's lectures on Plato's Sophist.

117 posted on 09/29/2008 8:31:42 AM PDT by pierrem15 (Charles Martel: past and future of France)
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I am reading Revolutions in World History by Michael D. Richards- it is just an overview of major revolutions but it is interesting and makes you want to find out more about some of the information. No, I am not planning a revolution- not yet anyway.

No matter what else I am reading I always have a crime drama in progress and right now it is Double Take by Catherine Coulter- it is just ok nothing special. Good enough to keep reading and not so good that I can’t put it down when I need to do something else.


118 posted on 09/29/2008 8:32:13 AM PDT by Tammy8 (Please Support and pray for our Troops, as they serve us every day.)
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I just finished reading Donbas by Jacques Sandulescu (McKay, 1968), the story of a Romanian teenager who escaped from the Soviet Gulag to West Germany in 1947. Menwhile, I'm struggling with Nixonland (Scribner, 2008), Rick Perlstein's tendentious, ponderous and flawd account of Richard Nixon during the years between Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964 and his re-election as president in 1972.

Books in the field of education that I have read recently include Bending the Twig by Augustine Rudd (Heritage Foundation, 1957), Educational Wastelands; The Retreat from Learning in our Public Schools (University of Illinois Press, 1953), The Diminished Mind: A Study of Planned Mediocrity in Our Schools (Regnery, 1954), and Crisis in Education: a study in American Complacency (Whittlesey, 1950). These are classic critiques of "progressive" education that are about as relevant today as when they were written. I eventually hope to be brought up to date when I get around to reading The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) (Tarcher, 2008).

I don't read much fiction, but earlier this year, I finished The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas (Houghton Mifflin, 1948), a novel based on the life of the apostle Peter, but which left me disappointed due to its historical and biblical inaccuracies.

In the field of politics, I started the year reading The Romney Riddle (Berwyn, 1967), a "campaign" book that provides an unflattering look at Mitt Romney's father George, who was gearing up for a run for the presidency in 1968. I also read Not Without Honor--The History of American Angi-Communism by Richard Gid Powers (Free Press, 1996), a scholarly analysis of "good" and "bad" anti-Communism.

In the near future, I'm planning to read The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values by Brad O'Leary (WND, 2008) and The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert J. Nock (Regnery, 1949)

119 posted on 09/29/2008 8:32:45 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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I also just finished listening to “Reliquary” by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

This time of year I looooove getting out a good horror book, especially on audio. “Carrie” by Stephan King is on my re-listen list and I just re-listened to “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin. Both are sooo much better then their movies.

Mia Farrow saying, “Those eyes! What’s wrong with his eyes!?!?!” will forever creep me out.

(I had to balance out all the smart people books with some good mindless fiction! ;-))


120 posted on 09/29/2008 8:34:21 AM PDT by retrokitten (I love lamp)
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