Posted on 03/29/2011 9:52:18 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Hi everyone! It's time again for my "What Are You Reading?" thread.
As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read of those of us on the Internet. I like to find out what all of you are reading these days.
It can be anything...a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a classic work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.
However, please do not defile this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread". it became really unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm about 15% of the way thru "Henry Clay: The Essential American" by David & Jeanne Heidler. Many books have been written on Henry Clay but this one seems to be the most comprehensive. At times, the authors can be a little long-winded - but all in all, it's a good book about one of the giants of the early 19th Century.
Well, what are YOU reading?
“Deconstructing Obama” by Cashill
The Silmarilion - Tolkein
3rd reading. last time read was in 1998. It’s one of those books that produces different thoughts each time you read it. Very Biblical IMO.
The Tender Bar by JR Mohringer.
I just finished “The Inner Circle” by Brad Metzler and an oldie “Hammer of God” by Arthur C. Clarke.
Not sure what I’m going to read next, maybe the thread will give me some good ideas.
1.) Goodbye To A River; John Graves, 1960 just finished- twice.
2.) Off the Beaten Trail: William Edward Syers, 1970 just started
Kartographer’s Preparedness Manual
In the middle of “Fires of Heaven” by Robert Jordan (yes, reading Wheel of Time... again)
Reading “Moralia” by Plutarch as my current philosophy book
Just finished an amazing book by Lori Gottlieb called “Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough”
My Bible and Devotionals as always
Usually a couple of cheap pulp novels on the side as well
“Chronicles of Narnia” with my 6 year old.
Just started The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the story of a black woman who, unbeknownst to her and her family, donated cervical cancer cells to science shortly before her death. From that small sample, scientists around the world cultured so many tissue samples for use in research that if you could pile all of the "HeLa" cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons — more than 100 Empire State Buildings. Fascinating stuff.
Lee Childs is somewhat similar, although without so much humour as DeMille. His main character, though, is fascinating.
And as always I have a copy of a full set of Sherlock Holmes stores to read one of the stories if I have nothing else to do.
If you asked tomorrow I would have said "What Would the Founders Say?: A Patriot's Answers to America's Most Pressing Problems" by fellow Freeper LS. Books & Co. is hosting a book signing and I plan on picking up a copy and saying hi to Dr. Schweikart.
Exceptional work.
My husband just read the Zamperini bio. It’s on his Kindle, though, so I’ll have to get the dead tree version from the library.
“Most of the posters here are either liars or duller than a rope.
Why would you say that?”
I was wondering the same thing - what would be the point of looking up obscure book titles and authors and posting notes about them on this thread? Honestly.
I have recently discovered Bill Bryson, humorist, and reading a few of his books. African Diary, A Walk In The Woods, and I’m A Stranger Here Myself.
He can be very funny but he does have an ugly edge to him, a la Andy Rooney. One of the many who love the results of a Christian culture but like to insult Christianity from time to time.
He can go for several chapters without doing so, so I read and occasionally laugh out loud, but, his nasty layer does disturb the total enjoyment.
The best one so far has been I’m a Stranger Here Myself, but, he does make ignorant comments about gun control in it.
:) And evidently, a “mind like a steel trap”, as one of my English teachers often said.
Every parent should have to read this book and get control over their child’s worldview. It is vital.
I doubt that England can be saved with the worthless generation that the Englishman has spawned. They allowed their media and schools to destroy the morality of their children and they abdicated parenting thinking it unimportant, when that is the most important for the survival of any culture.
The Marxist/socialists have destroyed the natural family and patriarchy—forced women out of the home so children’s minds and worldview formation was left up to the immoral, marxist state whose aim is to destroy cultures so they can create “a redesigned in the image of man” godless—man is just an animal—state.. so they are masters over idiot slaves.
Re #59:
Fiction far outsells nonfiction. Even if you take into account that FReepers are more political than the your average reader in the U.S. you still have a ratio of nonfiction over fiction on this thread that’s a little hard to swallow.
I’m reminded of the book A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. It was a best seller yet, according to even the publisher, most people who bought it never read it or only read a small portion before they put it on their bookshelves and went back to their Stephen King or Diana Gabaldon.
Going to read it—thanks! Sadly, I have relatives that I need to give it to for Christmas....LOL
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