What Are You Reading Now? - My Quarterly Survey

10/03/11

[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?

[ThanhPhero]

Paris In The Terror, Stanley Loomis.

[killermosquito]

Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!

[Siena Dreaming]

“A New History of India” by Stanley Wolpert.

[ladyvet]

“Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt,” Toby Wilkinson, “Speed Reading For Dummies,” and “The Overton Window,” Beck.

[elli1]

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.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

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

[KC Burke]

I am also reading the Secret Knowledge. It is alway s nice when a creative mind wakes up.

[Sawdring]

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.

[Little Ray]

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.

[Silentgypsy]

“Reckless Endangerment.”

[trillabodilla]

Heloise’s Housekeeping Hints. Really.

[trillabodilla]

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

[Logic n' Reason]

"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)

[El Sordo]

The Histories - Herodotus.

Fascinating stuff.

[trillabodilla]

Re: The Hound of the Baskervilles

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

[Logic n' Reason]

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!

[marsh2]

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

[Yollopoliuhqui]

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

[elli1]

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!

[Makana]

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