What Are You Reading Now? (My Quarterly Survey)

1/12/10

[MplsSteve]

OK, it's time for my quarterly What Are You Reading Now? survey.

I do this because I like to gauge what Freepers are reading. I believe that the Freeper community are one of the more well-read on the Internet.

What are you reading? It can be anything...a classic novel, a NY Times bestseller, a technical journal, a trashy pulp novel - in short, anything.

Please do not defile this thread by replying "I'm Reading This Thread". It became unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "Pickett's Charge: A Microstudy" by George R Stewart. It was written in 1959 and is a classic read about the last day of the battle of Gettysburg. It was his only book about the Civil War but he wrote many others.

Well, what are you reading?

[TheVitaminPress]

Notes from Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Five Equations that Changed the World-Michael Guillen
The Holy Bible (ESV)- God

*Also I’m reading “Nancy Drew and the Moonstone Castle Mystery” to my daughter and I’m hoping that the audio book of “Going Rogue” that I got my dad for Christmas will soon be lent to me!

[Cheryllynn]

Still working on Shrugged. I may read it again when I finish :)

[Travis McGee]

I'm proofreading and editing Fernando Aquirre’s excellent “The Modern Survival Manual” for the 2nd edition.

[ConservativeOrBust]

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin
Don’t Stop The Carnival - Herman Wouk & Jimmy Buffett

[dead]

The 5,000 Year Leap and Memoirs from an Antproof Case, depending on which bathroom I’m sitting in.

[mathluv]

I read many of Steinbeck's years ago, also Frank Slaughter and Frank Yerby. I am listening to the Amber series in the car, and I am reading a mystery series in the house - book 3 - a Booktown Mystery - Bookplate Special.

I have 'Going Rogue' by my chair to read.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Going Rogue.

Next up: I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter. Bob Lee Swagger rocks, as the kids used to say.

[Patrsup]

The Faded Sun Trilogy

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt

[kanawa]

Atlas Shrugged and Going Rogue

[headsonpikes]

“The Evolution of Political Thought” by C. Northcote Parkinson, author of the more-renowned “Parkinson’s Law”.

I reread it about twice a decade to remind myself of the non-permanence of all human institutions, and of the wisdom of Ecclesiastes and the Greek Stoics.

This 50 year old book is worth reading for its analysis of Communism as Theocracy alone!

[Chickensoup]

Anyone on the book club ping list remember the long list of books I read that I posted a couple of years ago. I cannot find the list and I lost it with the last computer crash...poor me.

[Tax-chick]

Last month’s “First Things” magazine
“Leisure, the Basis of Culture” by Josef Pieper

[alarm rider]

“The Lords’ Day” by Michael Dobbs. It concerns an Islamic attack on Parliment. Good read as with anything he writes.

[Tax-chick]

See 113, library list.

[kanawa]

I like a challenge...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1950277/posts?page=261#261

[kalee]

Psalms

[TradicalRC]

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘N’ Roll-An Alternative History of American Popular Music by Elijah Wald

[Non-Sequitur]

I’m working on a biography of Woodrow Wilson. Then I’ll probably try “Game Change”.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

My my, so many . . .

Lois Bujolds, Miles Vorsigen series. Starts with “Cordelia’s Honor”. All are excellent.

Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series. Currently reading: Virginia Marche’s 1635 “A Tangled Web” All are good, some are great.

“The Cell’s Design” - a great science book on the molecular structures that build up cells.

“Going Rogue” - A good account of Sarah Palin’s life and politics.

[yuleeyahoo]

“My Utmost for his Highest” - Oswald Chambers

The Percy Jackson & The Olympians series - Rick Riordan

and during lunch time at work

“Liberty and Tyranny” - Mark Levin