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?

[Travis McGee]

I ran across Fernando when he posted “Thoughts on Urban Survival” back around 2003, his tract on life in Argentina during the economic collapse. You can find it on the web if you google it. It’s about 20 pages.

[Melian]

“Time Enough For Love” by Heinlein is one of my favorite books. Have you read that one?

[Melian]

“The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom”
by Slavomir Rawicz

(Heroism, integrity, epic scale, freedom, human capacity for greatness, survival, and Yetti!)

[Melian]

I read the original “Square Foot Gardening” many years ago. Is there anything really new or different in the version you are reading?

[ChocChipCookie]

I have no idea! This is my first introduction to Square Foot Gardening.

[exit82]

No, haven’t read that one yet—now I have something to look forward to ;)

I just finished his “The Day After Tomorrow”. I like Heinlein’s theme of freedom against slavery in many of his books.

Makes one think—especially these days with He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned-Lest-I-Ruin-A-Perfectly-Good-Saturday as POTUS.

[Melian]

I think you will like Square Foot Gardening: it’s a fun, small-scale way to garden and it looks very need and orderly. I had a square foot garden for many years and my children loved it. Now I live in a condo and I miss my garden very much.

[Melian]

If you like Heinlein’s theme of freedom, I think you will like “Time Enough for Love.” Be warned that it is also about sexual freedom so it’s pretty futuristic at times, but the main character is quite a character. I live by some of his maxims. In the end, the book is about the triumph of love.

[runninglips]

If you are talking about “Out of the dust” it is strangely depressing. Mostly because it seems wrong assumptions are made and codified in the authors thoughts like a gospel. Instead of thinking that everyones life is different and their is a “normal”, the attitude seems to be that everyone is ABnormal. Of course this is just a small sample, since I cannot seem to pick it up anymore. It has been sitting in the same place so long, that I need to dust it.

[runninglips]

The first “Odd Thomas” book was great, and I have read them all so far.....at least I think so. Isn’t there supposed to be a new one soon?

[runninglips]

The book about depression, is it something you personally read to help with your problems? My wife is taking a SSRI.....against my advice. She has been using this for years, even claims it helps. All of my readings indicate a success rate of 60% effectiveness, but 60% is also the effective rate of the placebo. I am not asking to pry, but am looking for general knowledge and maybe so experience to guide me on the way to help her.

[Huber]

I just finished Lucy Beckett’s “A Postcard from the Volcano.”

[Buggman]

I think so. I seem to remember Koontz saying there would be six or seven in all.

They are great. Have you read the graphic novel yet?

Shalom.

[saminfl]

I am re-reading “Another Man’s Moccasins” by Craig Johnson. I really like those stories set in Wyoming. I’ll probably start re-rereading either C.J. Box or Gregory Bean (I really hate it that he didn’t write more than the 4 books) next. I have read all the Vince Flynn, Brad Thor and Daniel Silva. I don’t know how many times I have read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,” “The Puppet Masters,” and “Sixth Column.” I am also reading “Going Rogue.”

[abb]

About halfway through this one now.

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst
By David Nasaw

http://books.google.com/books?id=ET4uTW2k-9QC&dq=David+Nasaw+-+The+Chief:+The+Life+of+William+Randolph+Hearst&source=gbs_navlinks_s

[Onelifetogive]

Breathless, Dean Koontz - Not his best, but an enjoyable read.

Going Rogue! Vince Flynn and Superfreakonomics.

[Onelifetogive]

I love Dean Koontz. I have a large tote with just about everything (popular) he has ever written.

[Tanniker Smith]

I finally picked up a Dean Koontz book a couple years ago. Bad choice of books. Turned out to be a lousy adaptation of an even lousier movie, which, oddly enough, I had seen as a teenager on HBO. I recognized the similarities to it, except that Koontz tacked on several chapters before the film to explain things more -- but ended without wrapping up any of the extra material.

It was also weird because I was reading 2 years ago a story that had flashbacks to the 50s, but those were actually normal because the book was from the 70s, and I was the one out of place.

[avg_freeper]

Check out this article: Brighton resident throws fantasy book at gun-toting robber in Cambridge