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?

[ChocChipCookie]

You know, of course, there’s going to be a run on “Aztec” due to your review.

[twigs]

Silmarillion by J.R. Tolkien.

[zeugma]

Bible - (Acts at the moment)

Going Rogue

Jim Baen's Universe II

Worlds of Weber

Yeah. 4 books at once. Can't seem to settle on any one so I rotate them.

I've got about 5 more in the stack.

 

[Vigilantcitizen]

"F5" About the worst tornado outbreak in our nations history on April 3, 1974. It sucks. The author spends more time dogging Nixon and writes in a style more suitable to a Shakesperian play, obviously trying to show his audience just how intelligent he really is.

"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Never got a chance to read it until now.

"Spy Handler". The story of Victor Cherkashin, the man who recruited Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen.

[ChocChipCookie]

Travis, have you read Cody Lundin’s survival book? I got a preview for my Kindle and was very unimpressed, but others have said they liked it.

[stefanbatory]

Ogiem i Mieczem
in English it is known as With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Who would thought that an 1100+ page book could be a page-turner?

[twigs]

My husband teaches ornamental horticulture and for the first time, we have a home where we can actually grow vegetables and flowers, unusual ones. But he just found out that most of the catalogs he’s been requesting, old companies that he knew of as a child and younger man, are mostly fronts for marketing companies that bought out the names of the companies. He’s incredibly disappointed, so we’re going to research privately owned seed and plant companies. About 80% of these companies are these fronts.

[twigs]

Interesting. I thought it was one of the more depressing books I’d ever read. It really bothered me. Given your experience, I’m surprised you like the book.

[Madame Dufarge]

I'm reading that too.

I never thought about anyone confusing it with Zinn's crap, but you could be right.

Imagine the horor when they get to the end of the preface:

"They are all Americans to me: black, white, red, brown, yellow, thrown together by fate in the swirling maelstrom of history which has produced the most remarkable people the world has ever seen. I love them and salute them, and this is their story."

:-)

[Betis70]

Neat thread.

I am presently reading The Pirate Coast Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks

[Buggman]

For research/study:
The Babylonian Talmud, tractate Shabbat (for a project)
First Fruits of Zion's Torah Club series
A friend's translation of Galatians

For fun:
Odd Hours, by Dean Koontz
Tailchaser's Song, by Tad Williams (to my 8-year-old daughter)

Shalom

[redhead]

As always, The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis. I am never without a copy of this precious little book, and have several so I can always turn to it.

Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer," for the second time.

"Depression Free Naturally" by Joan Matthews Larson, for about the seventh time. This book is an AWESOME discovery. Run, don't walk, to amazon dot com or your bookstore and find a copy, especially if someone you love is depressed or struggling with mental problems. Don't write it off until you read what the author has to say. Trust me on this.

[Jaded]

I'll Bring the Chocolate by Karn Porter

[Travis McGee]

Not that one, but I do recommend Fernando Aguirre’s “Modern Survival Guide,” as based in more reality.

[Al B.]

Currently reading 1776 by David McCullough.

[Dust in the Wind]

“Blood and Thunder” by Hampton Sides

[Yaelle]

I recently finished “The Book Thief” and HIGHLY recommend it. This Australian writer has verbal synesthesia: he will make you use all of your senses reading his prose. Yes, it’s about Nazi Germany, but it is more about beauty and love than cruelty and hatred. You’ve never read a novel like this, so read it. :)

I also finished Sarah Palin’s book, just last night, and enjoyed it from cover to cover. I do have the impression I know her better, and still can’t find much not to like about her. We could do MUCH, MUCH worse than electing her President. I do not see her as corruptible.

I am also reading for research several books simultaneously about black life in the South from the end of the Civil War through the early 1920s, and am learning some very sad truths and some very interesting stories.

[ChocChipCookie]

Yeah, I’ve followed his blog off and on. How did you get to know him?

[SuzyQue]

Just finished “The Road”. Am halfway through Dinesh d’Souza’s “Life After Death”, and “Scottish Ghost Stories” for comic relief.

[bannie]

www.shelfari.com

Cool site!