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I'll start off. My most recent book read was The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. It is not conservative in nature, but it is thought-provoking in its own way. However, it felt rushed and too fast, as if it was intended to be made into a movie at some point.

Tom Clancy's most recent work, Red Rabbit, left me wondering what's happened to his former abilities.

I am looking forward to reading Clive Cussler's latest, as he's never let me down before. Long Live Dirk Pitt!

I simply cannot wait to read FReeper Travis Mcgee's book, Enemies Foreign And Domestic. I loved John Ross's Unintended Consequences, and Travis seems to be carrying on in that fine tradition ably.

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[MaryFromMichigan]

Noah ben Shea- "Jacob The Baker" and "Jacob's Journey" :)

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[gitmo]

I'm working on Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen. It's a narrative of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Very well crafted. .

I'm also reading Ollie North's novel on terrorism, Mission Compromised.

A few months ago I read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. That will remain one of my favorites.

[archy]

I simply cannot wait to read FReeper Travis Mcgee's book, Enemies Foreign And Domestic. I loved John Ross's Unintended Consequences, and Travis seems to be carrying on in that fine tradition ably.

You'll love it. It's all extremely realistic, except that the part about the space aliens landing in the amusement park with the dinosaurs seemed a bit of a stretch.

CommanderK'ru-leq! Get the blasters! There are great beasts here we believed extinct! They say that we taste like chicken!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

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Come one Come all! What've YOU read lately?

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[Xenalyte]

If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you might find interesting the Baigent/Lincoln/Leigh works, such as Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, both of which I'm re-reading right now.

[Alouette]

My most recent book read was The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown.

I just finished it. The riddles were fun, but a conspiracy this massive involving so many people for so many centuries just had me rolling my eyes. Anyway, how much of a "secret" could it be if you can Google up a zillion pages about it?

If Leonardo Da Vinci lived 1500 years after Jesus, how would he have any idea what everyone wore at the "Last Supper" and what the place settings looked like?

[Miss Marple]

For light reading with an underlying message of duty, honor, country, may I recommend the novels of Patricia Veryan. They are set in the Napoleonic Wars, and have a recurring cast of characters.

The Sanguinet Saga details the efforts of a villain to undermine the British government.

These novels are quite entertaining and the caharcters are weel-developed. Anyone who wants further information can contact me for titles.

[Xenalyte]

I'm an English-lit MA just like Mrs. LC, and I can't get enough of British history, especially the Renaissance and Tudor periods. Alison Weir, Antonia Fraser, and David Starkey are all worthwhile, although Ms. Weir does occasionally inject her very strong opinion.

Another book I read last week is The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries, by Jan Bondeson; it explores the legends of the Lost Dauphin, Caspar Hauser, Alexander I, and the Tichborne Claimant, among others. Fascinating read.

[aomagrat]

I'm currently reading Dreadnought by Robbert Massie. The sequel, Castles of Steel is next. For lighter fare I read mystery's by Nevada Barr and Joesph Wambaugh, and Dirk Pitt novels by Clive Cussler

[mlmr]

The Reckoning by James Byron Huggens was a book I picked up in a cut outs sale and it very good, it is in the spy genre and althoug that is not my favorite reading, I really have enjoyed reading and rereading it.

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Can't believe I forgot you on this one, Duchess. Slap me with a half-cooked lasagna, as pennance.

[Maceman]

I recently read Looking Backward - 2000-1887, a fascinating insight into the American Progressive mind.

Written in 1887 by Edward Bellamy, this Utopian novel tells the story of a Boston aristocrat who falls asleep under a hypnotist's spell in 1887 and awakens in Boston in the year 2000.

The book, which was voted the most influential novel of the prior 50 years by no less than three published surveys in 1935, describes a perfect world in which the government runs every facet of the economy.

In the author's imagined America of the year 2000, everyone works for the government from age 21 until age 45, after which each citizen looks forward to a blissful retirment of material satisfaction and personal growth. There is no crime, no poverty and no war.

If you have ever wondered how it is that America went from being a country built on the idea of individual liberty to one where it is assumed that the government's job is to provide for everyone's needs, you really need to read this book.

"Looking Backward" is the book that laid out the grand progressive vision that dominated so much of America's political and intellectual evolution during the Progressive Era (1870-1920).

A must-read if you really want to understand the core of today's Progressive (I do not use the word "Liberal" to describe moderne leftists) mind set.

[Dan from Michigan]

I'm way behind on reading (non school realted books) since I went back to school to finish my degree.

I like most of the Clancy books I've read (Op center and the Jack Ryan series). "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" was great, as was "Unintended Consequences".

I like the political dynamics involved in all of those.