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What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey
10/03/11

Posted on 10/03/2011 7:39:10 AM PDT by MplsSteve

Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" survey.

As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the most well-read of those of us on the 'Net. I like to get a feel as to what everyone is reading right now.

It can be anything - a technical journal, a NY Times best seller, a class work of fiction, a trashy pulp novel. In short, it can be anything.

Please do not respond to this thread by posting "I'm reading this thread" - or any variation thereof. It became really unfunny a long time ago.

I'll start. I'm reading "The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the making of a secret American Empire" by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman. It's part history, part biography and part expose of the Boswell family of Central California, a mega-farming corporation in the Central Valley. It's fascinating reading.

Well, what are YOU reading right now?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: books; godsgravesglyphs; literature; magazines; pages; vanity
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To: MplsSteve
Paris In The Terror, Stanley Loomis.
101 posted on 10/04/2011 5:45:31 AM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach hanh huong den La Vang)
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To: MplsSteve

Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!


102 posted on 10/04/2011 5:51:01 AM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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To: MplsSteve

“A New History of India” by Stanley Wolpert.


103 posted on 10/04/2011 5:57:27 AM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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To: MplsSteve
“Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt,” Toby Wilkinson, “Speed Reading For Dummies,” and “The Overton Window,” Beck.
104 posted on 10/04/2011 6:01:03 AM PDT by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: MplsSteve
I'm about half-way thru Dutch by Edmund Morris. I bought it at a rummage sale for $1 and want my money back. It's that awful. Morris is a schmuck of the first order. When either I finish the book or just get through with it, it's going in the wood stove.
105 posted on 10/04/2011 6:25:01 AM PDT by elli1
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To: MplsSteve

Deuteronomy. For the best translation and commentary get a JPS version.


106 posted on 10/04/2011 6:32:26 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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To: FrogMom
I am also reading the Secret Knowledge. It is alway s nice when a creative mind wakes up.
107 posted on 10/04/2011 6:38:30 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: elli1

I bought a copy of “Catcher in the Rye” for $1 at an estate sale. I’m thinking about going back and asking for my money back but it is hard to get it from a man who has ceased to exist.


108 posted on 10/04/2011 6:55:27 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: MplsSteve

I’m rotating through “Pasqale’s Nose,” “Monster Hunter: Alpha,” “Space Pirates” and “Blue Devil Island.”

My Kindle got broken and replaced, and I still have a decade or so backlog there, too.


109 posted on 10/04/2011 7:28:45 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: MplsSteve

“Reckless Endangerment.”


110 posted on 10/04/2011 8:31:27 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: MplsSteve

Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints. Really.


111 posted on 10/04/2011 10:02:09 AM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: Eccl 10:2

“The One Year Chronological Bible” - I want one! Will check to see if they have it in KJV, my preference.


112 posted on 10/04/2011 10:05:31 AM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: MplsSteve
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" (A. Conan Doyle)
"Going Rogue" (S. Palin)
"The Spanish Inquisition - A History" (Joseph Perez and Janet Lloyd)and
"The Naked and the Dead" (N. Mailer)
113 posted on 10/04/2011 10:25:05 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
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To: MplsSteve

The Histories - Herodotus.

Fascinating stuff.


114 posted on 10/04/2011 11:49:09 AM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: Logic n' Reason

Re: The Hound of the Baskervilles

Loved that one, I have the complete Sherlock Holmes- one of my favorites!


115 posted on 10/04/2011 1:44:13 PM PDT by trillabodilla (Jesus Saves)
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To: trillabodilla
Loved that one, I have the complete Sherlock Holmes- one of my favorites!

Read it a very long long time ago (HS)....was too damn ignorant to appreciate it then.

But I'm lovin' it now!

116 posted on 10/04/2011 2:34:20 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be REMOVED (ERADICATED)....NOW!!)
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To: MplsSteve

The Draft EIS for dam removal on the Klamath River and associated proposed federal legislation.


117 posted on 10/04/2011 6:35:24 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: MplsSteve

“Elizabeth and Essex” by Lytton Strachey
“Earth’s Next 50 Years” by Lyndon LaRouche


118 posted on 10/04/2011 6:46:03 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: Sawdring

Oh, gads, that was another groaner garage sale purchase that was wood stove fuel. I generally resell books that I’ve read when I have a garage sale...except for the awful ones that I don’t want anyone else to suffer through!


119 posted on 10/05/2011 4:02:59 AM PDT by elli1
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To: MplsSteve

Black Ships by Allen. A history of the Rum Runners during the Prohibition.


120 posted on 10/05/2011 5:50:00 AM PDT by Makana
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