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?

[wtc911]

Just finished Philip Kerr’s fourth Bernie Gunther noire-novel.

[6323cd]

“The Oxford Companion of Food”.

[SamAdams76]

I'm reading "Aztec" by the late Gary Jennings, a historical novel about Mexico set in the 15th century. This book is not for the faint-hearted. More senseless murders than a book on the mafia and more kinky sex than a year subscription to Penthouse. Not what I was expecting at all when I picked the book up. Were the Aztecs really like that?

Also recently re-read Jack London's "Call of the Wild" - one of my favorite books of all time (actually more of an extended short story than a novel. That story never gets old. Buck - the winter dog!

One of my favorite passages in that book:

And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops. But Buck was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his. He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge's sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge's daughters, on long twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the Judge's feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge's grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches. Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he utterly ignored, for he was king—king over all creeping, crawling, flying things of Judge Miller's place, humans included.

If I ever had to come back to life as a dog, I'd come back as Buck. Nobody messes with Buck.

Buck - the winter dog!

[BnBlFlag]

“History, Law and Christianity” by John Warwick Montgomery.
(with a commendatory letter from C.S. Lewis)

[wku man]

Just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, and about to start "One Second After" by William R. Forstchen.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[DennisR]

“The Bible” and “The 10 Biggest Lies about America.”

Regarding the last book, who knew that the largest ethnic group in the U.S. is German (17%)?

[AndrewB]

The Gospel According to Charlie Drake

Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying, author unknown.

[AndrewB]

The Gospel According to Charlie Drake

Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying, author unknown.

[irishtenor]

The Bible
John Sandford’s Shadow Prey

[runninglips]

The Hidden causes of Heart attack and strokes....and Triple Cross...Dean Koontz “Taken” ...then a series of poems written by a child in the dust bowl “Out of the dust”....toilet side a little bit at a time....

[Randy Larsen]

You’re post.

[wombtotomb]

just finished the 5000 year leap, and now my family is reading it together a chapter a couple of nights per week.

I have also been re-reading Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Revelation at the advice of our priest during a homily recently.

Though not a book, I have been closely following various economic threads on FR as well as reading alot about the coming food crisis and taking appropriate steps in light of it. I have also been pulling out and dusting off old cookbooks and brushing up on techniques and practicing old standby recipes for bread, various methods to prepare rice and beans, gardening, and rabbit husbandry as a meat source.

Finally, during my sons homeschooling, we are currently studying American Government so much of the founding fathers works (the 5000 year leap dovetails nicely here) and the constitution-brick by brick.

Sheesh, no wonder I’ve gained about 5 lbs recently. I gotta get off my butt and stop reading so much LOL!

[3D-JOY]

I have finished 9 or 10 new releases this month.

They include: Palin, Beck, King, Patterson, Flynn, Baldacci, Crighton, Koontz, Roberts, and several historical novels.

I have many unfinished books I read slowly too. I have Levin, Coulter, etc. They are not the kind I read cover to cover in a couple of days. If I am waiting for another new release to be delivered, I go back to them.

Not deep historical reading are they? LOL

[Domandred]

5000 Year Leap for non-fiction. Winter’s Heart, and just finished with Lights Out for fiction.

[TexasNative2000]

“E-Learning by Design” by Wm. Horton. Text for a graduate education course.

[Kiss7]

Worst Hard Time.
Isaac's Storm.
Both excellent!

[irishtenor]

I usually have two at work, one in the truck, one next to the bed, one in the TV room, and one in bathroom.

[NCC-1701]

This thread.

[Domandred]

Book 9 here. Rereading since next book is out to finish the series by a different author (RIP Jordan)

[runninglips]

Yours and my reading styles are very similar. I miss being able to read one thing at a time instead of devouring. I just can’t help myself. I have a tremendous NEED TO KNOW. As I am sure you do too.