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!

[envisio]

Service manual for a 1978 cb750 SOHC.
Cabellas catalog.
Book on home brewing.
“Big-Uns” 25th anniversary edition.
JohnDeere parts and accessories catalog.

[scramjet]

Just finished “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” by Matt Bracken, aka Travis Mcgee.

[listenhillary]

Highly recommended : Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom

[Dansong]

Just finished “Gods And Generals” by Shaara and “Old Soldiers Never Die”(MacArthur) by Perret. Dwyer’s “Napoleon” awaits.

[Big Red Clay]

Been a little slow on the reading so far. What I have gotten done this summer-

“Liberty and Tyranny” by Mark Levin
“Common Sense” by Glenn Beck
“The Silent Man” by Alex Berenson

I will probably finish “The Apostle” by Brad Thor tonight. Gotta head to Barnes & Noble since I don’t really have anything in the on deck circle.

[raybbr]

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

That's why it's called a "vanity".

[The Louiswu]

Sci-Fi summer fluff Polaris by James McDevitt and the compaion
Seeker also my Mr. McDevitt.

Sci-fi/mystery novels set in the far future with a dose of archeology tossed in.

[CAD Daddy]

Brad Thor, The Last Patriot. Very good action/spy novel.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Now *that’s* an eclectic list! :-)

[Disambiguator]

I just finished the Matt Bracken trilogy a week and a half ago. GR8STUF.

Next up: Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (never read it before)

I may also tear into Beowulf. We picked up a copy as part of my kid’s curriculum for the upcoming school year.

[Publius]

We have a FReeper Book Club dedicated to it.

FReeper Book Club: Introduction to Atlas Shrugged
Part I, Chapter I: The Theme
Part I, Chapter II: The Chain
Part I, Chapter III: The Top and the Bottom
Part I, Chapter IV: The Immovable Movers
Part I, Chapter V: The Climax of the d’Anconias
Part I, Chapter VI: The Non-Commercial
Part I, Chapter VII: The Exploiters and the Exploited
Part I, Chapter VIII: The John Galt Line
Part I, Chapter IX: The Sacred and the Profane
Part I, Chapter X: Wyatt’s Torch
Part II, Chapter I: The Man Who Belonged on Earth
Part II, Chapter II: The Aristocracy of Pull
Part II, Chapter III: White Blackmail
Part II, Chapter IV: The Sanction of the Victim
Part II, Chapter V: Account Overdrawn
Part II, Chapter VI: Miracle Metal
Part II, Chapter VII: The Moratorium on Brains
Part II, Chapter VIII: By Our Love
Part II, Chapter IX: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt
Part II, Chapter X: The Sign of the Dollar
Part III, Chapter I: Atlantis
Part III, Chapter II: The Utopia of Greed
Part III, Chapter III: Anti-Greed
Part III, Chapter IV: Anti-Life
Part III, Chapter V: Their Brothers’ Keepers
Part III, Chapter VI: The Concerto of Deliverance

[SLB]

I have finished - Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier’s Education.

I have just started - Joel C. Rosenberg, Inside the Revolution

[stuartcr]

Anything new by Bernard Cornwell.

[IronKros]

Starship Troopers is great!
Just stay away from the movie.

Oh, and not all Heinlein novels are equal.

Stay away from Stranger in a Strange land.
Talk about a 180.

Unless you like anti-government, hippie love ins... with aliens.

[iceskater]

Finished it about a month ago. Excellent book.

FDR was a thug. The parallels to today are frightening. I keep wondering what will be our Schecter. I thought it might be the folks who were trying to bring suit to stop the gov't takeover of GM. Unfortunately, that case doesn't seem to be it.

[jalisco555]

McDevitt’s good and Seeker is his best. I just finished The Forge of Christendom by the excellent British historian Tom Holland. About to start Only a Theory by Kenneth Miller.

[allmendream]

What is the premise of Gene modified organisms?

That they can prevent blindness by adding vitamins to rice?

That they reduce the need for pesticide/herbicide spraying?

As to what I am reading....

Heimskringla by Snorri Sturlasson
Genome by Matt Ridley
the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer

[pilipo]

Democracy in America
An American Cause
The Anti-Federalist Papers
Motorhome Magazine

[Le Chien Rouge]

Laugh away but I’m re-reading all my old Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side collection of comic strips.......I need some humor in these depressing times!!

[massgopguy]

Reagan’s Secret War