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?

[Mears]

Lucky you——maybe I’ll be reading your books some day.

[Pelham]

You should try his Screwtape Letters and The Great Divorce.

[ctdonath2]

The Forever War
(soon adapted to cinema by Ridley Scott)

[Radix]

Superfreakanomics

Lone Survivor

Quicksilver

The new W.E.B. Griffin book (about Cletus Frade this time)

Outrageous Hero (The B.T. Collins story)

A few others ...I am a restless reader.....

[lonestar]

It’s one of those books I don’t want to finish...feel like a fly-on-the-wall in the lives of the characters...and can identify with the time period.

[MHT]

Why were you disappointed? I have to lead a group discussion on it next week and would love to have more opinions and insights. Did you have expectations of it because of the award or reviews?

[fatima]

PERE LAMY

By Comte Paul Biver

[arbee4bush]

Thanks! I just reserved Empire of Liberty at our library.

[woollyone]

like them both, esp TGD. Space trilogy is also excellent. Though I reread MC often as it has excellent moral arguments that i find useful to reference.

[JewishRighter]

Do you happen to remember who recorded it? There’s a famous guy who did a lot of recordings of the Aubrey Maturin series and I’m told he did fantastic accents and good dramatic flair. What did you think?

[Tax-chick]

It was read by John Lee, published in 2003. (I looked on the library catalog.) There’s an earlier recording (1991) by Patrick Tull.

I liked the reader on the discs I had ... pleasant voice, and the characters were reasonably distinct. However, I didn’t notice accents, especially, nor great dramatic flair. It could be the 1991 set that you were told about.

[JewishRighter]

Yes it was Tull and no, he’s not Jethro’s brother. Seriously, I’ve heard he was the definitive voice for the O’Brian series.

Thanks for your insights.

[Tax-chick]

Happy to help! I’ll watch for recordings by Tull when I check the recorded-book shelves.

[nutmeg]

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[Brasil]

Going Rogue
I finished the latest Stephen Coonts thriller, The Disciple,and I'm working my way through the Brad Thor books.

[SunkenCiv]

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[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

“The English Civil War” by Diane Purkiss, Basic Books

[Beowulf9]

Dylan Thomas Collected Poems

[BIGLOOK]

Paul Johnson’s history is a very good book and I heard today that Howard Zinn is history.

[Pelham]

Someone should fill Howard Zinn with wax and put him on display like Lenin.