Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

[ChocChipCookie]

I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack?

I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through.

I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano.

I love hearing what everyone else is reading!

[ChocChipCookie]

Have you read The Worst Hard Time? That was an excellent book, all about the Dust Bowl.

Oh, I recently read Patriots. It was okay. Definitely thought provoking in an apocalyptic way.

[jla]

fyi

[End Times Sentinel]

Finishing War Made New (Max Boot)
Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
Politically Incorrect Guide to Evolution
I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican

Since we’re talking books though, CAN NOT RECOMMEND ENOUGH “Aquariums of Pyongyang”. Most moving book I’ve ever read (written by the hand of man anyway).

[bunster]

You’ll enjoy Black Swan — just finished it. another along the same lines is Malcolm Gladwell’s - Outliers - on the NY times Nonfiction best seller list (if that means anything). In fact Black Swan author and Gladwell reference each other.

[LongElegantLegs]

I’m rereading ‘The Frugal American Housewife’. I think you can get it free from Project Gutenberg.

[freemama]

I just finished Common Sense. I’m reading Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber and Rick and Bubba’s Guide to the Almost Nearly Perfect Marriage by Rick Burgess and Gill Bussey.

[tnlibertarian]

Becker CPA exam review material. I wouldn’t recommend it. Unless you suffer from insomnia.

[ChocChipCookie]

Just finished Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

READ IT!

I own it! Completely forgot about it. I wonder where it is...

[jla]

Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

I just noticed that.

[Wu]

The Good Thief and The Outlander

[La Lydia]

William Taubman’s biography of Khrushchev; Donna Leon’s “About Face” and “August Heat” by Andrea Camilleri.

[abb]

Who Killed CBS? Peter J. Boyer
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Who+Killed+CBS%3F-a06494414

[MtnClimber]

I am rereading "Atlas Shrugged" and following the Freeper Book Review.

I am also reading "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" by Matthew Bracken who is Freeper Travis McGee.

[Fred Hayek]

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg

[BGHater]

Wolf Totem: A Novel-Jiang Rong
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates-Peter T. Leeson

[woollyone]

Gulag Archipelego - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Am learning how to cope with the coming round-ups and maintain a sense of humor.

Seriously though, this is scary reading. I still have not come to even remotely comprehend the complete depravity of the whole thing. It foreshadows what is truly possible, even here, in the US, if we allow a depraved tyrant to rule over us.

Also just finished Glenn Beck's Common Sense.

[wordsofearnest]

I read that 30 + years ago. Not very interesting but practical.

[listenhillary]

Glenn Beck : Common Sense
Boortz: Fair tax:Answering the Critics
Levin: Liberty and Tyranny

[IronKros]

This summer I have read:

The Iliad
Walden
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Currently Reading:
Chronicles of the Black Company Series
I am on the second omnibus.

Military Dark Fantasy, pretty interesting.

[wordsofearnest]

Good luck to you also.